What security camera should I choose? Where should I put it? Questions like these must be answered as you decide to enhance the security of your home or office. Here we’ll do an overview of exactly what you need to know to select the best Security camera Brooklyn for your needs and to know the best location for installation.

Selecting the right camera

Cameras have different features for different purposes. When the area and objects to be under surveillance is determined then you must next determine the camera features to best suit the security needs of the organization.

• Fixed or Pan, Tilt, and Zoom (PTZ Cameras)? When you walk into a building have you ever got the feeling someone was following you? How about just staring at you? Look up and you may see one of two types of cameras: Fixed or PTZ. The fixed camera will just stare at a particular view. The PTZ camera will survey the scene with movements like up and down, left and right, zooming in and zooming out. Fixed cameras are cheaper ($200 to $500 for fixed vs. $2000 or more for PTZ) and thus are more widely used. Fixed cameras aren’t usually monitored on a daily basis whereas PTZ typically is. PTZ cameras are also commonly used when security personnel is
  

  How Do I Select the Right Security Camera?

  available to monitor the cameras from a central security room.

• Megapixel or Standard Definition? Think of the picture quality of an HD television compared to the picture quality of the television you were exposed to when you were a child and think of the image quality of movies today compared to image quality just 10 years ago. The improvements from standard to high definition image quality means smaller items in images can be identified and used as evidence or clues during an investigation of a surveillance video. Roughly 4% of surveillance video cameras that were sold in 2008 were high definition but due to the clarity of the images. Cameras with high definition are being chosen more and more by organizations. Security cameras can go up to 16 megapixels in resolution whereas a high definition television has a limit of 3 megapixels.
• Analog or IP? The difference between the two is the same between a camcorder that records on a videocassette (analog) and an all-digital camcorder (IP). While both types can be transmitted through a network an analog camera requires an adaptor to do so. A major benefit for using IP video surveillance cameras is that only IP cameras are capable of having a megapixel resolution. Most infrared and thermal cameras are only available in analog, however. IP cameras are rapidly replacing analog cameras in the video surveillance market and currently represent about 20% sold.