IP-CCTV

IP-Closed Circuit Television

With the advent of IP-CCTV the ongoing fight against crime goes to another level giving increased security to the general public and businesses through co-ordinated responses with law enforcement and rescue services in both the public and private sector.
Co-ordinated responses can be managed from faster access and simpler distribution of recorded information. High quality video, audio, communications and data can be remotely distributed to appropriate response units as and when it is required.

This high quality accurate data allows police, security and rescue personnel on the ground to analyse impending situations. Their responses can range from using the latest communications technology to interact directly with monitored locations, to implementing a physical interaction, and then co-ordinating the situation to a finely managed and satisfactory point of resolution.

The monitoring of IP-CCTV and live management of responses from a centralised location allows security staff to concentrate their attention on critical areas of businesses or crime vulnerable areas.

CCTV has very quickly become an essential tool in reducing crime and/or ensuring high convictions rates of offenders. Legislation thought at the time to be un-enforceable such as anti litter campaigns become feasible with wide area coverage by a single operator and faced with real time footage avoid costly court time. Thus, the sight of security cameras has now become acceptable and common place throughout the UK and covers domestic housing through to government installations.

The most recent growth area is one of public area surveillance with a crime reduction rate directly related to investment. In Britain alone between £160 and £300 million pounds (320 - 600 million dollars) annually is invested in surveillance equipment. Other countries have now become aware the part CCTV is playing in crime reduction and the solving of committed crimes across the whole spectrum. The UK is clearly a leader in the introduction of CCTV making it an ideal country to source surveillance expertise and find companies dedicated to the installation of the relevant equipment.

The advantages of IP-CCTV include;

• A recording method that no longer relies on video tape that tend to produce picture deterioration.
• The reduction of bulky storage and the reduction of exceptionally long seek and find times.
• IP-CCTV recording is digital and can be encrypted for secure storage and transmission.
• Recordings can be compressed to save space but more important it allows faster access to relevant time periods with no image deterioration.
• The ability to increase system capability with the integration of other high tech systems as and when they are required is also made easier.
• IP-CCTV delivers powerful managed incident responses to suit your changing security and response requirements.