Allstate Security & Communications understands your CCTV needs. You want to protect your business from false work cover claims, investigate thefts and provide your staff and customers the best possible security.
Allstate Security & Communications is experienced in providing both live image monitoring and image replay programs. We tailor CCTV systems to suit both day and night time environments, providing high quality footage around the clock.
What is CCTV?
In Closed Circuit TV (CCTV), the picture is viewed or recorded, but not broadcast. It was initially developed as a means of security for banks and casinos; however, today it has been developed to the point where it is simple and inexpensive enough to be used in home security systems, and for everyday surveillance.
More specifically, CCTV is a television transmission system in which live or prerecorded signals are sent over a closed loop to a finite and predetermined group of receivers, usually as scrambled radio waves that are unscrambled at the point of reception. CCTV takes numerous forms and performs a wide range of functions ranging from image enhancement for the partially sighted to the transmission of pay-per-view broadcasts.
Although cable television is technically a form of Closed Circuit TV, the term is generally used to describe systems with more specialized applications than a standard broadcast or cable television. Such specialized systems are not subject to regulation by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); however, CCTV Systems using scrambled radio waves are in fact subject to common carrier tariffs and FCC conditions of service.
Common Uses of CCTV
CCTV has many industrial and scientific applications outside of the world of surveillance. Electron microscopy, medical imaging and robotics are all common uses of CCTV, however, the term 'Closed Circuit TV' does in fact most often refer to security and surveillance camera systems. Other common forms of CCTV include live on-site video displays for special events such as various conventions, arena sports and concerts as well as pay-per-view telecasts of sporting events such as boxing and pro wrestling. Also a common use of CCTV is 'in-house' television channels that broadcast to very small and specific receivers such as in hospitals, airports, racetracks, schools, malls, grocery stores, and municipal buildings.
Benefits of CCTV
The demand for public surveillance CCTV has come from the public who clearly appreciate the benefits that CCTV can bring to their commercial domestic area. Properly targeted, installed and monitored CCTV can reduce crime and disorder. It provides the police with early warning of a crime and can assist in identifying those that are responsible. Where offences have occurred, CCTV images have greatly assisted the subsequent police investigation and have saved thousands of hours of investigative time. Although there is research evidence to suggest that CCTV may displace some crime, this is no different to most crime prevention techniques.
Controlling the access to your premises is extremely important for the following reasons:
Security of your businesses product.
Security of your business staff (people working alone or late at night).
Controlling access to certain areas of the business to certain staff, e.g.: server rooms, document storage, R&D areas, dangerous goods areas, etc.
Access Control systems can work on the following ways:
Proximity readers using fobs or cards.
Keypads use 4 or 6 digit codes.
Biometrics using hand or finger print as well as card or fob.
All these can be designed to suit your businesses requirements.
