The CCTV digital revolution.
What does digital technology mean?
A quiet revolution is happening in CCTV as the technology moves from analogue (video recorders and tapes etc) through first generation digital technology (cameras sending multi pixel digital pictures to hard drive digital recorders). Now to second generation digital network technology running on a PC with offsite secure internet based image storage and remote web based access providing the ability to access images from anywhere in the world on a PC Blackberry or mobile phone.
On T V News and in T V programmes like BBC Crimewatch sometimes the quality of the CCTV clips is very poor. Often because the CCTV is old analogue technology. The digital camera technology on some mobile phones is of remarkable quality so why can’t CCTV be of this quality? The answer is it can by the use of new digital CCTV technology.
New mega pixel digital cameras can now record images with image resolution thirty times that of many analogue CCTV cameras This enables sections of the pre recorded image to be magnified ten times to view faces or vehicle number plates.
Digital network technology also enables previously unheard of additional software based applications to be run on the CCTV infrastructure and be used for additional purposes like for example wireless internet access points.
These can be made available at locations like leisure or recreation sites boating marinas where the visitors can get internet access either free or for a small charge helping to subsidise the cost of the digital CCTV installation.
Wireless networks also mean the elimination of much of the civil engineering works and expensive cabling needed for traditional CCTV. Digital technology also enables the CCTV system to be regularly expanded or upgraded at very little cost and new software based applications to be added easily making the system virtually future proof.
Many traditional CCTV companies do not yet have experience of the latest software driven ethernet or network digital technologies. Wireless Eye are at the cutting edge of this revolution.