Here is yet another common question in many commercial operations. Unfortunately CCTV systems can be very complex, especially if you are new to the equipment, process, and jargon. It would probably be a lot easier to just call us at 866-414-2553 and we can walk through the process with you or email us your floor...

Try This Link To Watch The Video If You Don't Have YouTube Account Because It Is A Private Video Above is a video that shows why surveillance systems are really needed everywhere. Yea we know, people will say and scream invasion of privacy, world doom, computer take over. As usual life has a balance to...

Here is another question that came through. "Which is better RG59 video cable or CAT5 wire?" Over the years we have seen applications developed with CAT5 and video baluns to accomplish plug and play setups and distance issues. RG59 tends to be tedious, especially when terminating ends for your bnc connectors. First, you have to...

We have some strange questions that come through by email. However, this topic is an interesting one! Infrared cameras have been posing problems for people who try to integrate security cameras with infrared lights indoors. It is very difficult to use infrared cameras indoors! The main reason why is due to the reflective surfaces that...

Looking for a security camera that has a motion detection feature? There are three classes of cameras. There are cameras that are hard-wired (meaning they need to have a video cable run from the camera to a T.V., V.C.R., and DVR), wireless cameras (cameras that have an antenna to transmit signal to a receiver, still...

Often in the application development, there never seems like a cherry way to do things. There is always a guide for how things should go, but that book never seems to have the dust knocked off it in real-time situations. CCTV is one of the projects, where change and adaptation is constant. Many of our...

So you are in the beginning stages of planning your CCTV system . Do you have all your equipment or are you starting to doubt if you have everything to make for a good installation? In either situation, you must begin to think if you are on point with your cable runs for your security...

Well it is official, this week we are going to have our most anticipated section up! Our SPY security cameras! We have all kinds of simple SPY cameras that will enable residential applications a lot more options to placing cameras in their homes. SPY cameras are very simple cameras to setup. Most of the cameras...

So you bought a PTZ camera and you are unsure why it does not work properly or if you have the baud rate set correctly. Depending on what type of PTZ control you have will dictate what baud rate you set it to. The baud rate is the address setting and speed at which communication...

Looking at this picture may make you scratch your head, however, know that this is a beast of a security camera . JETprotection Corporation apparently has this security teamed up with some A.I. (artificial intelligence)! This is a long range surveillance camera designed to prevent surveillance from another party. In fact, you can just call...

We are adding new items to the store and this summer will be a very hard month for us. We have tons of product in the bullet camera family that will be great for every application out there. Today's topic is concerning our new long range bullet cameras . The camera above is an astonishing...

So what is a preset position for a PTZ camera ? Preset positions are a speed dome camera's memorized P/T/Z and focus functionality. This means a user/operator can set the security camera to automatically look at a certain area in your CCTV application. Depending on what you are trying to do and what you want...

Ever wonder how to do something properly sometimes. We have many resellers, that buy from us and we have been working hard to make pdf documents of all our products. Products that have our own specs from our testing, measurements and perspective. We even want to be able to have our manuals for setup and...

Remember the post we had about a year ago (for our regular readers), where we started to see solutions for PTZ cameras that were powered by solar technology? Well we finally have the parts in our warehouse that will allow anyone that has a unique application to have power where there are no outlets. The...

ISCW WEST is around the corner! We are trying to figure out if we are going to go. We are looking to grab new price list and manufacture info. We might show up on the sales floor and see what's new in the industry, however, it is still really unnecessary at this point for us....