Guide to buy the best Wireless /CCTV surveillance camera for your Home/Office
By Binoy Anto
Published on 03 Jul. 2021 10:10pm
What You Need To Know About Wireless Surveillance Cameras
Today when some one mentions Smart Home, the first thing comes to your mind will be a security or indoor/outdoor camera with many smart functions. Even though it does not need much smartness to integrate new generation security camera to your home, we need to understand the needs or use cases of the same into a greater extend. Here I will explain 3 major scenarios which I have come across during my last 10+ years of using this.
Why you may need it !!
Main reasons to keep a home indoor surveillance camera is to monitor the movement of family members [For eg. You are away from your old Parents who stays alone or you are a person who needs to travel, while wife and kids are at home etc], both father and mother is working & children at home or you need to monitor the safety of home and surroundings and also as a backup method to communicate with anyone near camera using its built in mic and speakers [Two way Audio].
When we decide a surveillance camera at home, first we will need to decide whether it needs to be Wired or Wireless. Wired has its own advantages and disadvantages. Advantages being more stable connectivity, fixed location, less movement. Wired cameras are useful for medium to long term surveillance. These cameras are better suited for customers with a large area, such as public places, stadiums, and office buildings. But if you decide on wireless cameras and your connectivity options are good, with wireless router strength is good then the next points to note before buying are following,
- Connectivity / Remote Access and Storage / Cloud Backup
- Quality of Video and Software Features [Rewind/Fast Forward/TimeLine Selection]
- Low-light or infrared mode [Night vision]
- Microphone / Speaker Two-way audio
- Field of View [FOV]
- Motion Sensors and Automation (Alexa / Google Home)
- Pan-Tilt-Zoom [PTZ]
- Safety and Privacy
- Number of cameras required
Connectivity / Remote Access and Cloud Backup
Wireless cameras are usually connected directly to Wifi Access Point or Wireless Routers using 2.4 vs 5 GHz WiFi, 802.11bgn, 802.11ac flavours. Some of these are also IP cameras, which means they have a NIC port that allows you to plug in a camera and control it wirelessly. Wireless cameras can be easily moved from one place to another as there will be only a power source cable required. No cabling issues and installation issues involved. One point to see in camera selection is the functions of the Software, whether it supports your needs and also to see whether the same will support local storage using SD /MicroSD card and if required cloud backup. Cloud backup is sometimes important if you use the same in critical areas and someone steals the camera, you may not have options to retrieve the video footage if it was stored locally.Remote access to the recorded video and live feed from your security cameras is crucial. Almost every modern urban home security system comes with some kind of companion app what gives you varying degrees of control. This means that you are able to see live footage from the camera on your mobile phone while you are way, even in another city.
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