Many property owners find it important to enhance the security of their tenants and prevent damage to their property by installing camera surveillance systems. Cameras can cover building hallways, stairwells, basements, elevators, building exteriors and parking lots.

The surveillance system shown above is located at one of our sites. It contains over 200 cameras covering all inside and outside areas of the apartment building. Included are PTZ cameras covering the outside grounds surrounding the building. These cameras allow security officers to manually aim and zoom in on areas of interest. The cameras can also be programmed to automatically sweep predetermined areas of interest.

Where facial recognition is vital in order to pursue legal action, special high resolution cameras with remote positioning and aiming, their quantity, placement and lighting become an important cost factor. Where only observation of events is required, moderate cost systems are readily available. All camera video outputs are delivered to digital video recorders (DVRs) which can store video data from a few weeks to many months for later viewing.

Dome cameras are an example of a commonly used, moderately priced high resolution, vandal resistant camera. They have the following features:

• Captures all images under any lighting condition
• Amplifies existing light with no range limitations
• Super backlight compensation
• No IR reflection problems