What Are the Benefits of a PoE CCTV Camera?
As someone who owns a commercial property, with important assets and employees/patrons to protect, it goes without saying that your CCTV system can’t have any weak points. Picking up any activity around your property is paramount, both for insurance purposes and ensuring criminals are identified. At CCTV Galway, we use PoE cameras to make sure you don’t miss anything and have seamless control over your surveillance system.
These network CCTV cameras get their power from the network switch it connects to, meaning you only require one cable for each camera and can have peace of mind that your feed won’t be disrupted at any time. To help you learn a bit more about our PoE cameras, this blog post walks you through some of its key benefits.
Quality Images, Long-Term Storage
The images caught on analogue cameras are usually around one half of a megapixel, which isn’t clear enough for official investigations. With PoE cameras, on the other hand, you can receive consistently high-definition images, around five times better than conventional analogue cameras - even during the night, when most crimes occur.
On top of that, the videos captured on your PoE camera can be stored for as long as you need on a range of devices, such as hard drives, a cloud system, or Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems. Even if you have high amounts of data, the videos can be easily found, without you losing any of them.
Access From Anywhere
The video captured on PoE cameras can be monitored from a remote site of your choosing, or even a location outside your business through the internet. No matter where you are, the camera feed is integrated with the existing Ethernet IP network, meaning that multiple applications can be incorporated into a unified network, allowing for the most seamless possible access.
High Flexibility
Unlike previous analogue systems, PoE cameras can be installed anywhere that can be reached by an Ethernet cable or a wireless access point, which can be expanded to reach outdoors if required. This also means that if you need to add, move, or remove a particular camera without taking down other cameras of equipment, the system will never go offline and there won’t be any gaps in the recording.
If you are a commercial property owner and would like to know more about the PoE cameras provided by CCTV Galway, please do give us a call or fill out the contact form and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.