MOTION ACTIVATED CAMERA & ACCESSORIES

Welcome to our website. A Motion Activated Camera is an extremely useful upgrade to your home or business security system, for a number of reasons.

Most DVR Security Systems monitor and record video from areas under surveillance 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This sounds great but this amount of recording requires massive storage on your security recording system. Additionally, wireless security cameras get their power from batteries. You can imagine that full time recording uses an awful lot of battery power, and requires regular battery replacement.

Wouldn't it be great to only record video data and use camera battery power when it was needed, namely when unauthorized activity was occurring in the areas under surveillance. Well you can with a motion activated camera. These cameras have a built-in sensor which allows them to record only when motion is detected. This security camera system allows you to minimize the amount of video storage required. Another great benefit is that if an unauthorized intrusion does occur, you do not need to trawl through hours and hours of video footage to find the incident.

As well as being extremely useful in a business surveillance environment, they work just as well in a home wireless security camera system, and make video security surveillance a more efficient and user friendly system to implement.

If you already own a DVR Security System in your business or home, it may be very simple to upgrade your cameras to a motion activated camera system. Of course, if your system is a wired system you can still purchase motion activated security cameras to suit your needs, just check that your system supports them. You won't get the benefits of saving battery life, but the benefits of a system which records only when motion is detected will make you pleased you converted.

So what is a motion activated camera likely to cost you? Well it all depends on the type of system you own or whether you're just starting out and buying a complete security monitoring system from scratch. It's possible to purchase a complete 4 camera system for between $500 and $1000. Cameras alone can cost upwards of $150 per camera depending on the sophistication of the system.

So whether you're a business or a homeowner, a person with a second holiday property or you have a remote location you need to protect I would wholeheartedly recommend considering using a motion activated camera system to protect your property and valuables. They are easy to install, cheap to run, and most of all they only record when you need them to. This alone can save much time and money as it allows you to rethink much of your system capacity needs.

Here is a really useful article on the motiona activated security camera.

Motion Activated Security Camera Consumer Guide
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lesley_Chew]Lesley Chew

Motion activated security camera is a great alternative to the normal security camera when you do not need to store video images the whole day long. The advantage that this motion activated security camera has over the regular camera is that it can save you up to 90% of disk storage space.

In most of the modern security systems that we have now, the most common way of storing video data is to use hard drives. However imagine the amount of hard disk space you will use up in order to store video data that is collected every minute of the day 24 by 7 !

In the case of using motion activated security camera, the video footage is only captured and recorded when there is a detection of motion. This saves a potentially huge amounts of disk space. This is especially so if the video stored is of high quality and resolution which usually means more data. Furthermore, if you can save plenty of disk space, you will be able to archive video data for a longer period of time. No more worries about disk space running out in a short while or spending money on hard disks!

Such cameras are indeed a blessing especially in areas where motion is a danger or sign of intrusion. Examples are areas which need monitoring at night like warehouses, office buildings and even your own home.

Furthermore, some top of the line motion activated security camera also comes with motion tracking. The camera has built in mechanism consisting of stepper motors, panning and tilting capabilities and embedded software which enable the camera to follow the movement of targets. Since a certain about of computing is required by the software in the camera, most motion activated security cameras are IP cameras as they are the only types advanced and powerful enough to handle the task.

Movement triggered capturing is achieved by the following 2 methods : - Using a standard optical sensor ( very much like those used in normal security systems that we see ) to signal the camera when to start recording, based on its input. - Using the IP Camera's software to do a constant comparison between recorded frames. The video capturing is only triggered when when two consecutive frames are different. The frames will only be different if something or someone moved. The recording will stop when two consecutive frames are identical (which means nothing is moving anymore).

Motion activated security camera is definitely worth every penny with the savings in the long run you can expect.

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Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?Motion-Activated-Security-Camera-Consumer-Guide&id=633067] Motion Activated Security Camera Consumer Guide

We hope this has given you some ideas on the setup of either business or home surveillance systems. The motion activated camera should be at the core of your system development. Thanks for visiting.