9 Signs You Need Help With Business Security Systems
1. You’re experiencing vandalism
Repair and replacement costs may also include business interruption. Then there are the lost sales.
“Vandals bring blight to communities and engender fear of crime. Damaging property with graffiti in some places is a sign of gang infiltration; your customers, worried about having their vehicles damaged or stolen and fearing for their safety, may take their business elsewhere.”
2. Break-ins
A national survey in Britain found that 24% of retail establishments were burgled compared to just 4% of residences.
The same British survey revealed that:
Though they do little planning, burglars show care in selecting “safer” targets
They claim little deterrence by physical security but try to avoid being seen
Most retail burglaries occur at night or on weekends when stores are closed
Repeat victimization is due to location, security, attractiveness of goods, and the success of previous attempts. (In Britain, 2% of retail premises experienced 25% of the retail burglaries in 1993).
Stores lose as much to burglary as to shoplifting and only very rarely recover stolen goods.
Unless burglars are caught in the act, they are very difficult to detect.
According to Insureon, 22% of US small businesses suffered a burglary or theft in 2018. The average claim was $8,000.00 per incident. Statistics weren’t readily available for the frequency of employee break-ins.
3. Employee shrinkage
Your biggest threat to business security may be your employees. As high as 75% of employees have stolen at least once from their employer.
In a true-life example, a manufacturing client of SCW’s utilized his new business surveillance camera system to expose a ring of employees who covered for each other to take extended breaks each day outside of the work facility.
Without the aid of his new SCW business security system, the owner would have continued to pay full wages for part-time work.
Employee shrinkage can be caught and curtailed with an IP security camera system. The presence of high-visibility surveillance cameras provides a major deterrent to employee theft with the knowledge they are being videoed.
4. You’re not capturing clear footage
Video surveillance footage is useless if it’s indistinct, washed-out, too dark, skips, and more. Here’s a relevant example we encountered with a client:
Brian Miller of Parkway Ford North, Winston-Salem, NC, shared an outstanding incident that justified their purchase of a new business security system from SCW.
“We had an older cable system that didn’t allow us to make out what color a stolen vehicle was, barely what kind of vehicle. The deciding factor was when we had an $80,000.00 Ford Expedition stolen and we couldn’t tell if it was black, blue, red, or green. That one vehicle almost cost as much as the entire system.”
Whatever the reason for your inferior video footage, there is no reasonable excuse for not replacing your business surveillance system with new, professional-grade IP security cameras from SCW.
Take a look at our article for all the convincing you’ll need: 7 Ways Small Business Security Systems Pay for Themselves.
5. Your Internet isn’t up to the task
Internet connectivity issues are a maddening aspect of daily life for many of us. With your business security system, the issue goes beyond maddening to threatening.
Bandwidth is like the food that your surveillance cameras gobble up. It’s typically measured in bits, and it takes a lot of bits to send video.
In your business surveillance system, by adding up the bandwidth requirements of every camera the total load is determined.
First, you need some numbers regarding the speed of your Internet connection. Use this test. The results will supply you with both the upload speed and the download speed of your Internet connection.
Upload refers to how many megabits of data per second you can send information from your network’s location to another. Download speed refers to how fast you can receive information at your location.
When it comes to viewing IP security cameras remotely, a good upload speed is necessary where the cameras are mounted and a good download speed is required where your viewing device (such as your phone) is located.
Consider the advantages of a high-tech SCW NVR.
Unlike traditional NVRs, with an SCW NVR’s isolated network, the camera's video feeds do not slow down your main computer network.
The recorder (NVR) will send out two video streams when you are viewing on your computer, smartphones, tablets, etc.
One is the mainstream. The mainstream is the exact quality the NVR always records at. Some computers will struggle to play all available cameras at mainstream and most internet connection upload speed will be unable to keep up.
Substream is a secondary stream coming from the recorder or cameras. This is customizable but is standard definition quality.
Note: Even when viewing substream, the system will still record on the full, mainstream quality.
The latest technology in IP security camera systems is pushing toward freedom from the web entirely. SCW is leading that charge with Survail, our new AI Analytics-powered platform. Survail can provide you with state-of-the-art business surveillance completely free of the web--100% cyber secure. Call us for a free demo!
6. Installation issues
Show of hands, and be honest. Who hasn’t taken on a project and envisioned it coming together flawlessly in short order?
How quickly we forget Murphy’s Law: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". Later, another individual remarked that “Murphy was an optimist.”
Installation problems with your business surveillance system can seem insurmountable. Whether your self attempts have led to frustration, or you’ve hired inept installers, SCW can step in with real solutions.
Our website is packed with installation instructions and videos. To accompany that, we have the finest tech support team a telephone call away offering FREE, professional guidance. Purchase a business surveillance system from us and that free support is yours for a lifetime.
We also have access to installers around the country. These are people whom we trust to be familiar with our products and pros and implementing a worry-free security camera installation for you.
7. Dirty cameras obscuring your video footage
Who doesn’t clean their eyeglasses daily?
A bigger question: When was the last time your IP security cameras and their lenses were cleaned?
Dust, dirt, cobwebs, bird nests, pollen, and more accumulate each day on your crucial IP security cameras. They need a once-a-month cleaning to restore your business security system footage from blurry to sparkling.
8. You have access control issues
Here’s a tough but essential security question: Do you have any measure of control as to who accesses your facility throughout operational hours?
You want the right people inside. You want the wrong people kept out. It’s that simple.
SCW’s Access Control gives you complete command over those who enter your commercial space. Every door programmed into the system remains automatically locked.
Former employees who still hold keys are kept out by changing the code. Slip-and-fall scammers never get inside. And current employees have access by key fob, car, or mobile credentials.
The key fob option allows you to monitor the presence and movement of individual employees the entire time they are on the premises.
It’s a simple retrofit installation, a quick program set-up and you’re done. Control is restored to you and your business.
9. You don’t get alerts when you need them
Lack of timely notifications is an unacceptable condition--not one you should have to tolerate. Whatever the glitch in your business security system, the issue is resolvable.
Look at the numerous ways in which SCW’s business surveillance systems swiftly send alerts--email, text, automated phone call, iPad, Android and iPhone screen display, scheduled emails, and more.
Our AI Analytics-Powered platform, Survail, will ping you instantly, as incidents occur, by multiple pre-set notifications!
Real-time security! Contact us for a demo.
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