Video surveillance for small businesses in trade and services

In small retail outlets, despite the limited space, video monitors have long appeared on which visitors can see a multi-camera picture from the sales area. However, not all small business owners pay attention to image quality. But for an experienced shoplifter, a blurry and low-contrast image on a "public" display can serve as a signal to action. Not to mention, the DVR to which the monitor is connected is not necessarily in recording mode. Sometimes an on-screen menu is also displayed for the public, from which it can be understood that the recording is not being made.

Of course, such "observation" of prevention tasks will not solve. The screen here plays rather the role of a scarecrow, capable of impressing only the most naive visitors. Moreover, demonstrating the lack of control, the owners of retail outlets often provoke their visitors to illegal actions. To a certain extent, this also applies to personnel, as a rule, dissatisfied with the level of remuneration for their work. As a result, rudeness, fraud at the box office and direct theft of goods are not excluded, despite the fact that all this is easily recorded on Pasang CCTV. If they are of the right quality, installed correctly, and actually work, rather than create visibility.

In a store where goods are exchanged for money, something cannot "lie badly" - at least for a long time. And the owner is faced with a difficult choice: either to incur the costs of serious controls, or, alas, to deal with an almost imminent theft. Buying a cool, deep learning, machine-intelligent camera for a humble store - either solo or online - is economically questionable. However, in recent years, there have appeared budget options for solving the problem "in an adult way." In particular, based on EZ-IP equipment. In a small sales area with a relatively low ceiling, it is advisable to use a compact camera with a wide-angle lens to provide an overall view of the scene. In rooms with standard aspect ratios, using a higher pixel resolution model will save on the total number of cameras, while in long and narrow spaces it is better to use multiple cameras with a resolution equivalent to the Full HD standard.

Dome cameras provide a higher degree of security, but the psychological effect of their use, as practice shows, is somewhat lower: with an abundance of visual stimuli in the sales area, a dome camera, especially a miniature one, can "get lost" in the interior. If no gross mistakes were made during the installation and setup of the camera, and the video data is recorded and controlled in accordance with the tasks set, then the actions of the intruders will be recorded on the drives and will help in the investigation. But if the camera is visible, these actions may be prevented. In the matter of choosing a specific type of camera, it remains to rely on the knowledge and experience of the business owners. One thing is certain: there is a model in the EZ-IP range that can solve any problem.

Unlike cameras, the choice of a video recorder is somewhat simpler, since it is easier to formalize. Depending on the number and type of cameras used at the facility - analog, analog high-definition or network - a suitable model of the recorder is selected in a few minutes. The most important subtlety is the choice of the number of simultaneously recorded channels - without overloading the budget, it is necessary to take into account the possible expansion of the system in the future. For example, if the plans are to install a rack or cabinet with expensive goods, and it can be placed only outside the cashier's line of sight, then you may have to buy a camera with a sufficiently high resolution to the system. That is, one more recording channel will be required and, most likely, an increase in the storage capacity.

It is important that even at the stage of development of EZ-IP equipment addressed to small and medium-sized enterprises, traditional technical and operational subtleties have already been taken into account. In general, the devices of this brand are quite tolerant to power supplies, consume an absolute minimum of electricity, and the developers consider the exceptional ease of setup as a special "trick". It is no coincidence that the name of the brand includes "EZ" - a fashionable abbreviation for the English "easy". Ease and convenience today are especially in price - therefore it is quite possible that in the very near future, by going at random in any small

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