Placement of CCTV Camera for Surveillance

In this article i would like to cover identifying the need for placement of CCTV Cameras for Effective Surveillance. While realization and acceptance for need of CCTV Cameras may be a good step in the wake to have multiple eyes and keep theft under control, improper placement can lead to expenditure going over the roof.

Basic principle towards proper placement of CCTV Cameras can be divided under two categories:
1. Identify the Center Points
2. Focus on Main Assets

1. Identify the Center Points: Center Points can be defined as points of intersection & paths through which people, objects or vehicles have to pass in order to enter/exit a particular premises. Examples are Entrances, Hallways, Exit Points, Car Parking, Staircases.

2. Focus on Physical Assets: Main assets are the objects or places where monitoring is necessary. Objects such as expensive jewellery or artifact, merchandise for retail or expensive portable machinery and places such as points of cash transactions(cash counters/registers), reception, server room, store room and places which house a asset valuable to the organization.

The above should help in conducting a security survey and give you a cost effective solution. In the next article i will cover how to do the selection of cameras for different locations.

@Rohit Jain - Omnipolis

Security Market

In today’s world, security as a word can be related to everything around us starting from Security of an individual, organization, assets and information. In the today’s rapidly changing world where technology has made the Globe flat for everyone, education about how to secure an organization or its assets is as important as taking a call on an investment to expand business. While many organizations acknowledge importance of security and allocate it the due share in their capital expenditure as well as recurring cost in manpower security, many organizations have to join the party.

According to Homeland Security Research “Global Standoff Terrorist Detection Technologies & Markets 2010-2014” report, this market (including systems sales, maintenance and upgrades) is forecasted to grow exponentially from US$540 million in 2010 to $6.3 billion by 2014. The landmark report, granulated into more than 80 submarkets, presents detailed analysis and forecasts of this rapidly evolving market. Users can profit from in-depth analysis of seven standoff detection modalities subsectors: 

·         Concealed Explosives & Weapon Standoff Detection Systems 

·         Walk-by Threat Sensing Systems

·         Pass-through Threat Detection Corridors

·         Standoff Biometric Identification Systems 

·         Standoff Behavior Detection & Tracking Systems

·         Vehicle Standoff Threat Detection Systems

·         Standoff Video Content Analysis Based Systems

@Rohit Jain - Omnipolis

Need for Security

Security is the main concern for both Business owners and Home owners. Increase in the Crime statistics on a yearly basis surely shows us how security has become the prime concern of all the people. If you havent noticed, most of the commercial institutions now have a Dedicated Security Manager with his own set of team to take care of the security of premises. The Incident at Taj, Mumbai clearly exposed the loopholes and showed the importance of security.But since then the complete landscape has changed. The focus on the Security has increased by leaps and bounds and business owners are now taking their premises security seriously. Prevention is always better than cure as someone said. It fits perfectly for the business owners who need to realize the need of electronic security gadgets available in the market. As a business owner one need not spend a fortune to secure his premises. Better equipped premises have a better chance against the act of crimes. Every industry deals with his own set of problems when it comes to security and have diferent concerns. But all can be addressed in a proper manner, with a focused approach towards the protection of the premises. As an individual too, one need to look at different security requirements from a security guard to a hitech home security system which can help in averting lot many issues and an action by proper authority in case of emergency.

For those Business owners and Residential users who still do not take the help of available electronic security gadgets, i wish Good Luck!!!


@Rahul Jain - Omnipolis