Hidden Cameras - Best Safety Solution for Enterprises

The security of your business is not something to be taken lightly. First of all, since it concerns the protection of your assets, ie your financial investments, but also because it affects the safety of your employees.

Your level of protection also playing on the amount of your insurance contribution

 Optimizing the security of a building for professional use is often one of the top priorities of a company moving to its new premises. The challenge is not just to protect the burglars' offices or workshops.

The issues of flow management and different user access privileges, that is to say, employees and visitors are a real challenge for companies hosting daily individuals and categories of staff. If enterprise surveillance cameras instinctively appear as an effective solution, it is far from the only one.

 Various access control and alarm devices are also very useful for securing a building. Above all, these different devices are not mutually exclusive but benefit from being brought together in a real security system. What are the technical characteristics and advantages of hidden cameras in security devices and systems in companies?

Business use

Companies place hidden cameras in order to obtain evidence during flights. This helps identify unscrupulous behavior or even casual thieves. Housekeeping and cleaning company working at night, colleagues digging into confidential files, fraudulent intrusion...

For small and medium businesses that want to protect their premises, there are several levels of security.

The first, the alarm. This device makes it possible to trigger a high power signal as soon as an intrusion attempt is detected (shock and movement detector).     

The sensors are placed on the premises but also outside, if you need it. You can choose to protect your company 24/7 by delegating the management of alerts to a third party. The alarm is directly connected to a Central Station. Reaction times are short and depending on your subscription formula a call to the police or intervention of vigilantes can be done within minutes of the call.

 In this kind of device, there is no continuous video recording but rather screenshots with each suspicious motion detection. The recognition of an individual will be done by you or by a security agent and the alert will be definitively triggered if necessary.

Other security systems managed by you or a third party use the principle of video surveillance by a camera arranged inside and outside the building. They operate by analog, wireless or IP. The data is then managed either remotely by a security company or at home, in situ, if you have acquired the full version of the monitor/recorder solution and user data storage capacity (servers).

MOTION DETECTION

The benefits of integrated motion detection in most cameras are indeed unavoidable. The first is the direct processing of video motion detection in the camera itself, so the workload for all recording devices in the system is greatly reduced.

From this alert, monitoring is facilitated. Automated motion detection for each video stream can receive an independent adjustment. The viewing screen only displays what is predefined. Any other intrusion can be zoomed manually.

Limits of use

The hidden camera is part of the freedom of communication. In principle, this procedure is not legal and many journalists use it in the exercise of their profession, as much as other professionals (police, security agencies, etc.). Its use is often necessary in cases where it is difficult or impossible to obtain the information by any other means.

To limit its use to the necessities of public information and to avoid the risk of slippage, justice has laid a specific framework:

The hidden camera should be used in circumstances where the information could not be obtained differently;

The process must be revealed to the public so that the people filmed do not feel watched after the recording of the scenes.

If people are filmed or recorded without their knowledge and without their prior consent, they should not be identifiable during the broadcast of the recording.

Television channels must necessarily guarantee the anonymity of the people and places filmed.

The different solutions to secure your business premises

 In addition to corporate surveillance cameras used in video surveillance or remote surveillance, there are various access control solutions and several types of alarms.

Access controls

Access control devices are the most essential, most basic security tools. Basically, a simple key is in itself an access control device, but quickly becomes unsuitable when the number of doors to open and the number of employees becomes unmanageable.

Different systems allow greater flexibility, depending on the incoming identification technology:

- The code keyboard,

- The audio and / or video doorphone,

- The badge reader,

- The biometric reader,

- The electronic cylinder.

It should be noted that complex systems can combine all or part of these identification technologies, in order to further secure certain accesses.

Their installation is extremely simple in most cases: just think of doing some electrical work and pass cables in the walls to install readers and doorkeepers.

The scalability of these systems is one of its first benefits, as well as its flexibility. It will indeed be possible to use systems or combinations of access control more or less advanced depending on the degree of protection to be granted to this or that access.

In addition, these devices are particularly simple to decline for a large number of users and to change if necessary: only a few minutes are enough to disable a badge, create a new one, or change a code.

Finally, the fact that no legal obligation governs this device - except in the case where it requires the registration of biometric data - is another advantage in its favor.

What threat does video surveillance pose?

The most unpleasant and obvious consequences of video surveillance failures are the potential identification of individuals during registration. In other words, a cybercriminal can identify you and then use those images against you for you to sing or burglar. Not to mention the invasion of privacy.

 Of course, video recording is not enough to share a lot of information about a victim; however normal people voluntarily publish a lot of personal information on the Internet. Perhaps the most publicized incident of this kind was the revelation of X-movie actresses.

Users on a forum had found social media profiles of X-movie actresses and had contacted them with the help of facial recognition services such as FindFace, to then harass them.

The number of CCTV cameras is constantly increasing, as is the quality of their image. For example, most companies entrances are equipped with motion activated hidden cameras that provide good picture quality even in the dark. Ever wondered how many surveillance cameras you see on your way home to the local supermarket? Have you ever thought about potential threats and means of protection?

The different solutions to secure your business premises

In addition to corporate surveillance cameras used in video surveillance or remote surveillance, there are various access Surveillance cameras for business video surveillance.

For a company, a surveillance camera is another security device ... from the moment it is integrated into a real video surveillance system.

The cameras themselves may be wired or wireless, analog or digital, intended for outdoor or indoor use and allow daytime, nighttime or both. These cameras operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

They are connected to a "central" and a registration system. The communicating models transmit an alert to the user, even if he is deported, by an automatic call of his telephone, an e-mail or an SMS.

Alarms and detectors are often usefully added to the system.

The business benefits of surveillance cameras in such a configuration are that they represent a complete security system, which detects intrusions, collects evidence and gives warning.

Related services

Finally, one of the most important criteria is undoubtedly the dimension of services associated with the security system. Indeed, despite technological progress, despite the decline in equipment prices, we must remember that security is primarily a service.

If the priority of the user is to feel perfectly calm, because he will know that the system has been well installed, well controlled, and well used in normal times as in the time of the problem, it is, of course, possible to take a provider for each task.

 But it is also possible to use a single company, as part of a contract for remote monitoring. The best thing is to request a quotation in CCTV to compare offers from different providers.