Ensure Safety Even In High Crime Rate Areas

Ensuring the security of people in areas which have high crime rates is always a dicey matter. In such places even patients in hospitals are at risk. Therefore, bulletproof doors are the call of the day in such places whether it is a home, a commercial outlet, a corporate office, a school or a hospital. Many facilities like banks, financial institutions, government buildings and court houses are normal places which require bulletproof doors. These doors are designed and custom built for each project and application. They are available in different sizes and types determined by the application, engineering and architectural requirements.

Understand Whether That Door Is Bullet Proof or Bullet Resistant 

Impact doors, swing doors and double acting doors should be bullet proof ones. Such doors are more effective when they are placed next to walls that are inherently bullet resistant. This can be cinderblock, brick or poured concrete. However, check to see what kinds of bullets is your door going to stop only light hand guns or will it also stop high caliber rifles? Compared to the shotgun’s blast, a handgun’s power is less. Hence, you need a thicker glass to stop blasts from high power firearms, such as a shotgun. Remember, the bulletproof door is going to be only as effective as the rest of the security system. 

The very people you are trying to protect will remain at risk if the door remains resistant but the glass of the windows of that particular room or its neighboring room shatter. The flying splinters can do incalculable harm to the people in it. It is not only the high profile VIPs who need protection from bullets. Sometimes it is only a bulletproof glass door which stands between life and death for ordinary people too. Few glass doors are genuinely bullet proof. Most of them will be bullet resistant since the bullets are going to splinter the glass at some time when there is determined firing going around.

Bank personnel and convenience store clerks are often the people most in need of a sheet of bulletproof glass. Putting a solid sheet of bulletproof glass between personnel and would-be robbers provides protection both for the employee and the employer. Instead of ruining the look of your commercial outlet, you can enhance the elegance by installing a bulletproof glass door. At any hint of danger it can simply be closed, providing security to your employees and customers. It is an excellent measure to enhance employee and customer confidence  the spin off benefits of which can be immeasurable.

Get a Camera which Blends Into Any Kind of Architecture

A security camera which is not easily seen and which can blend into the decor of a room gives you the best of both worlds. It is discreet but does its job efficiently. This is why offices which deal with sensitive information love to use the pinhole security camera. As the name suggests it is a fully functional camera but fits into as tiny a space as a pinhole. You could place it anywhere in a room or office where you want to capture evidence. Pinhole cameras are mini cameras with small lens openings. The greatest advantage of any pinhole camera is that it can be fitted into any gizmo or decorative item. 

Hide Your Pinhole Camera Anywhere You Want

You can embed it in a pen, watch, tiepin, brooch, pendant, shades or even a lipstick. You can place pinhole cameras as part of the design of a hat allowing users to capture photographs and get footages of people or areas where the hat is facing. If someone is not wearing it and moving around a place, then you will get only a limited line of vision. However, a suspicious spouse hoping to capture his/her partner doing something in his/her absence can easily hang the hat on a peg so that it faces the area or bed where s/he expects him/her to be.

Keep Your Camera in a Tight Corner without Getting into One

The other option would be to get a high resolution snake camera. Snake Cameras are also mini cameras but with a flexible and controllable body. This allows it to be inserted into holes and tight places where ordinary cameras cannot be installed. One kind of fiber optic camera utilized in surveillance is the Mini-Snake. It is thin, flexible and features a 3.7mm pinhole lens and comes with a 1/4 inch color charge coupled device and a.01 illumination area. With it you can see around corners, under doors, inside drain pipes, and limited areas not normally seen by the human eye.

You can look through doors, keyholes or holes in the wall using a snake camera. The fiber-optic inspection scope is a kind of snake camera and is useful for looking under doors, locked rooms or drain pipes. This fiber optic camera enables you to see and record in total darkness making nighttime investigations a piece of cake. The eyepiece of the scope is a lens that is 2mm in diameter and is attached to flexible fiber optic bundle.

Cameras Which Are Perfect For the Most Demanding Surveillance Applications

If you are on the lookout for the kind of security camera which packs a lot of performance into a relatively small package, then go for a Samsung dome camera. It will pan, tilt and zoom into a specific area of interest to give you the kind of footage which makes it easy to nab the guilty. For example, the SNP-6201 is a compact PTZ dome camera which provides 20x images in full HD resolution. This ability to magnify an image 20 times ensures that you are able to identify persons approximately 180 meters away. So you are no longer restricted to a limited range of vision for identification. 

It also means that if you are using it watch the cash register, you will be able to check from the video footage whether there has been a genuine human error or somebody was trying to steal from you. Nowadays, automated software are used which simplify the entire process. It organizes the video footage so that it is easily accessible. However, if you need to maintain surveillance in minimal light or even in darkness, the model of choice would be Samsung’s SNP-6200RH. It boasts of infra red (IR) illumination which can illuminate objects at a distance of up to 100m by focusing the beam as the camera zooms, resulting in clear imaging in total darkness.

From low cost indoor models to high performance environmental versions, Samsung offer a wide selection of fixed dome models in their IP camera line. The other major player of the surveillance cameras is Sony. One of the top of the line models of the Sony surveillance camera is the SNC-HM662 which makes it possible for users to have five megapixel (MP), high-resolution video and a 360-degree view of an area with just the one camera. It provides better clarity and resolution towards the edge of the lens, whereas traditional lens technology performs better in the centre. 

So, whether you need it for indoor environments such as retail outlets, campuses and commercial buildings or outdoor ones like bus terminal or playground, you can keep a watchful eye at all times. The SNC-DF80N camera is designed to be used both indoors and outdoors and features a vandal- and weather-resistant body so they can be used at banks, retail, government, and other high security locations. Moreover, Sony offers a number of models which have a rugged housing making them appropriate for outdoor surveillance.

Bad Weather Should Not Halt Surveillance

There is no need to imagine that bad weather will stall anti-social or criminal activities. If anything it will probably increase as miscreants would think that nobody is going to be alert to what is happening outdoors. This is what makes it vital that you should think of investing in a weatherproof bullet camera for outdoor surveillance. This is especially so for public places like playgrounds, parks, car parking areas, the vestibule of large buildings — just about any place where there would be all kinds of people coming and going at all times of the day or night. Weather resistance is measured in either NEMA ratings or IP ratings.

What Does Weather Proof Mean?

NEMA ratings were developed by The National Electrical Manufacturers Association in the US, while IP was developed in Europe. However, IP ratings only consider protection against ingress of solid foreign objects and ingress of water; while some of the NEMA ratings also include protection against corrosion. It works in any weather conditions and even has a built-in heater for areas which experience extremely cold conditions and snowfall. It uses the latest technology including a high performance camera with a pan tilt zoom lens, rapid repositioning and the ability to automatically adjust for changes in light and object instances. 

Most of these cameras can operate as self-sufficient units, meaning that the systems have all the components necessary to view, capture and record video. There are cameras so advanced that they allow the images to be transmitted over the internet. Surveillance cameras are one way of sending a signal to employees and customers that they are under surveillance and not to do anything stupid. The bullet camera is smaller and less visible when in place, making it ideal for conditions where you don’t want to tip people off that an area is under surveillance

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A high resolution bullet camera is essentially a megapixel camera. Megapixel cameras offer wider coverage than an analog camera, but are more expensive. These are great for larger areas such as a parking lot. The larger the number of megapixels the wider the area the camera can cover, with the standard being 2 megapixels. There are models which allow you to uniquely program the position, focus and video settings of the camera, like iris control and shutter speed for each preset mode. You can even pre-set over 100 views in rapid positioning with 360 degrees continuous monitoring with a vertical orientation of 180 degrees. This kind of bullet camera is ideal for department stores, airports, banks, casinos and other high traffic areas.