Atlanta Approves Multi-Million Dollar Security Upgrades As reported this week by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), the City Council for the City of Atlanta voted to spend $2.25 million to expand its video surveillance presence in the city. City of Atlanta officials are pointing to the existing video surveillance infrastructure as one reason that crime in […]
Video Surveillance
Getting Your Video While On the Go
Tools Make Remote Video Viewing Easier Video surveillance cameras are widely deployed in many homes and businesses. In fact, this article from Popular Mechanics magazine states that “there are an estimated 30 million surveillance cameras now deployed in the United States shooting 4 billion hours of footage a week.” But, we often encounter users and […]
Public Cameras Vandalized
Public Camera Vandalization on the Rise It seems that there is a growing problem of public camera vandalism. There have been two recent instances in the news where public video surveillance systems were damaged. The first happened right here in metro Atlanta and was reported by the AJC: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/wire-thefts-disable-all-ga-400-traffic-cameras/nR5Rj/ The most recent incident happened in Maryland […]
Surprise in San Jose
San Jose Passes New Alarm Response Ordinance The residents of San Jose, California got surprised recently by the passage of a new alarm response ordinance. According to this article in the San Jose Mercury News from January, 2012, the San Jose police department has decided not to respond to any security system signals unless there […]
Office Creepers Still at Work
Protect Yourself Against Office Creepers Have you herd of the term “Office Creeper?” If not, the definition can be found on this Word Spy web page. Essentially, an Office Creeper is someone who sneaks into an office building during regular work hours to steal personal property from offices in that building. In case you are […]
Hard Drive Shortage May Affect DVR Availability and Pricing
How Recent Flooding is Impacting the Market If you are a regular follower of the news, you will know about the major floods that have inundated parts of Thailand. Unfortunately, some of the areas that experienced the heavy flooding contained factories that manufactured electronic goods that are regularly consumed here in the United States. One […]
Thieves Drag ATM Out of Macon Target Store with Pickup Truck
Video Surveillance Systems Capture Burglary on Camera From television station WMAZ Channel 13 in Macon, Georgia (just south of Atlanta) comes this latest story of thievery. As you will see in the video clip on their website, several thugs drove a white pickup truck through the front doors of Target and then loaded up the ATM […]
New 180 Degree, 20 Megapixel Camera from Arecont Vision
Explore the Latest Innovation from Arecont Vision Arecont Vision, a leading manufacturer of megapixel video surveillance (CCTV) cameras, has released a new 20 megapixel, 180 degree, day/night, dome camera. This new camera has four 5-megapixel imagers in one dome camera housing and it allows users to get wide views with high-resolution quality. I predict that megapixel […]
Clear Up That Grainy Video
How to Combat Smash and Grab Burglaries Another day in Atlanta…another story of a smash and grab burglary. These types of burglaries are very hard to stop because the burglars wait until a business is closed (usually a retail business is the target) and then smash the front window and grab everything they can in […]
Fight Crime with Facebook
Homeowners Use Video Surveillance to Fight Crime We were sent a link to an interesting story from ABC News this past week. The story was about how homeowners are using video surveillance cameras to capture video of burglaries and other crimes at their homes and then posting the video clips on Facebook to try to […]