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What is video surveillance?
Home » Office Equipment » Video Surveillance » What is video surveillance?As common as video surveillance is now, it is surprising that it is such a young industry. Video surveillance did not appear until the 1960s and was not prevalent in the United States until the 1980s. From that humble beginning, video surveillance is now seemingly everywhere—in department stores, in banks, and in your neighborhood convenience store, not to mention its starring role in movies and on television shows.
Video surveillance originated as closed circuit television (basically a still video camera and a VCR) and has now advanced to digital video that can be streamed live over the Internet and enhanced, slowed, sped up, and much more.
As the technology has increased, businesses use video surveillance for more and more purposes. Originally, businesses used video surveillance as both a deterrent to thieves and as evidence to help police to apprehend criminals. Now, businesses use video surveillance for a wide of variety reasons. Video surveillance still helps to stop theft and record criminal evidence, but it can also help to improve productivity, meet insurance requirements, and promote safety at the workplace.
In a 2005 American Management Association survey, fifty-one percent of companies reported using video monitoring to prevent crime, an increase of eighteen percent over four years earlier. It seems that the use of video surveillance is advancing as fast as the technology is.
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