Home CCTV Cameras |
Home CCTV (Closed-Circuit Television) cameras are a network of security cameras installed around your property to monitor and record activity. These cameras transmit video footage to a specific set of monitors or devices, ensuring that the images are not publicly broadcast. This technology allows homeowners to keep a close eye on their property, both in real-time and through recorded footage, providing comprehensive surveillance.
Benefits of Home CCTV Cameras |
Investing in a home CCTV camera system from Gemini Security offers numerous advantages, ensuring comprehensive protection and peace of mind. Here are some key benefits:
Deterrence of Criminal Activity:
The visible presence of CCTV cameras acts as a powerful deterrent to potential intruders and vandals, significantly reducing the likelihood of criminal behaviour.
Real-Time Monitoring:
CCTV systems provide the ability to monitor your property in real time, allowing you to respond quickly to any suspicious activity.
Evidence Collection:
In the event of a crime, CCTV footage provides crucial evidence that can aid in investigations and increase the chances of apprehending the perpetrators. High-definition video can be vital for law enforcement and insurance claims.
Enhanced Home Safety:
CCTV cameras can help monitor areas around your home, ensuring the safety of your family and property. This includes monitoring entrances, driveways, and backyards.
Remote Access:
Modern CCTV systems offer remote access capabilities, allowing you to view live feeds and recorded footage from anywhere using your smartphone, tablet, or computer.
Insurance Benefits:
Many insurance companies offer discounts on premiums for homes equipped with professional CCTV systems, providing financial benefits in addition to increased security.
Key Features of Gemini Security's Home CCTV Camera Systems
Key Features of Home CCTV Camera Systems |
Gemini Security offers state-of-the-art home CCTV camera systems equipped with advanced features designed to enhance your surveillance capabilities. Here are some standout features of our home CCTV systems:
High-Definition Video Quality:
Our CCTV cameras provide crystal-clear high-definition video, ensuring that every detail is captured with precision. This level of clarity is crucial for identifying individuals and activities.
Night Vision:
Equipped with infrared technology, our cameras offer superior night vision capabilities, ensuring that your property is protected around the clock, even in complete darkness.
Motion Detection and Alerts:
Our CCTV systems are equipped with advanced motion detection technology. When movement is detected, the system triggers an alert and begins recording. You can receive instant notifications on your mobile device, keeping you informed of any suspicious activity.
Wide-Angle Lenses:
Our cameras feature wide-angle lenses that provide comprehensive coverage of large areas, reducing blind spots and ensuring that more of your property is monitored.
Two-Way Audio:
Some of our CCTV cameras feature two-way audio, allowing you to communicate directly with visitors or potential intruders. This feature adds an extra layer of security and convenience.
Cloud Storage:
Gemini Security offers cloud storage options, enabling you to store and access your video footage securely online. This ensures that your recordings are safe from theft or damage and can be accessed from anywhere.
User-Friendly Mobile App:
Our dedicated mobile app allows you to control and monitor your CCTV system with ease. You can view live feeds, playback recorded footage, and manage camera settings from your smartphone or tablet.
Types of Home CCTV Cameras Offered by Gemini Security
Types of CCTV Cameras |
Gemini Security provides a variety of home CCTV cameras to meet the diverse needs of different homes and security requirements. Here are some types of systems we offer:
Analogue HD:
Our analogue HD cameras offer a wide range of benefits, and we have a wide range of high-quality HD-SDI cameras, recorders and accessories available. These unite the high-quality images of IP with the point-to-point configuration of analogue systems. Similar to your HD TV at home, HD-STI can offer impeccable picture quality for your CCTV system, giving 720p and 1080p resolution in real time (25fps). This broadcast quality does not have bandwidth issues since it is connected directly to the DVR from point to point.
IP Camera:
Internet protocol cameras are like little computers that you connect to to access your video, and as such, you do not require a direct connection to a PC to operate, meaning they can be placed anywhere within a network and accessed remotely at any time. In contrast to Analouge cameras, an IP camera excels in capturing high definition, megapixel images as captured data is digitised directly from the sensor, and because of their increased computing power, they can perform more advanced functions such as detecting motion to trigger recording or tampering and act on it by emailing, uploading, or recording images or video to an internal storage card external storage device.
CCTV Maintenance |
As the term implies, CCTV preventative maintenance involves regularly testing the functionality of CCTV surveillance equipment to reduce the probability of a malfunction or failure. Maintaining systems regularly will ensure CCTV systems are working to their optimum performance and that images recorded and stored are fit for purpose, and are of evidence quality and could be used as admissible evidence for purposes of investigation or for use in courts of law. Preventative maintenance is an essential part of ensuring continuous surveillance and helps to deter break-ins, theft and the overall security of the area(s) being monitored. To avoid any lapses in surveillance monitoring, CCTV system maintenance is usually carried out whilst all devices are still in operation.
Our standard service care package is based upon a 4-camera system and includes 2 service visits per year (one in the spring & one in the Autumn), all cameras will be cleaned and adjusted as required. Where additional cameras are installed, these will be added to the service agreement at additional cost.
During the service visit our Engineers will:
- Verify that the number and type of cameras installed, as well as lenses, correspond with records held by the client.
- Act on any previous notifications or issues reported by the business.
- The camera checking component of the security system maintenance checklist should include comprehensive cleaning of the lenses and housings.
- Once the camera is properly cleaned, as well as the area of the premises they view is not obstructed, then the next step is to check the audio and recording equipment.
- If there are any external cameras, ensure that any plants, trees or shrubbery do not impede the view, recording or any other function of the CCTV camera
Most insurance companies will insist on this as a condition of the insurance, and the service will require the growth to be regularly cut back.
- Check that all cables are properly mounted or supported by the correct conduit, and that the insulating plastic is showing no sign of wear and tear.
- Check that all indicator lights and pre-sets are functioning correctly
- Verify that all warning labels and notifications are present and clearly visible. This also applies to a full connection check of all components in the CCTV circuits.
- Check that all fixtures and fittings that ensure the CCTV itself is properly supported are in place. This examination should include looking for signs of physical damage and any form of chemical corrosion. Any damage should be repaired as soon as possible. Many business owners check that such repair work is possible within the terms of their maintenance contract.