Rugged CCTV

Along with remote access directly through an Active X codec for Internet Explorer and our smart phone app named SMART EYES we also make full Central Monitoring Software (CMS) for all of our DVRs. This software gives you multiple DVR access at one time for live views, playback access, backup copy ability and a setup [...]

Manuals and Helpful Information Rugged CCTV has been making our own stand alone DVRs for more than a decade. Technology changes rapidly in our industry, so we are always adding new equipment, but we still support our older DVRs for technical questions, and ALL of our customers receive FREE technical support for the life of [...]

In just a few weeks, we will be introducing our New Megapixel Cameras and DVR’s. This new technology, much easier to implement than IP Cameras, will carry 1080p HD Video down your existing Coax cables. What this means, is that you will be able to switch out your old cameras for HD Megapixel cameras in [...]

Thanks to our customers Rugged CCTV has just experienced our best year ever. Now entering our 19th year, we were not expecting 2011 to be as good as it has been. Thanks to a host of new products and some Patents, we have seen demand go through the roof in 2011. So, we thought we [...]

We ship hundreds of packages every week and we have relied on UPS for our shipping for many, many years. However, we started to see that the apparent strife within the ranks of UPS (both drivers and office workers), was starting to affect delivery, pickups and even billing. Luckily, we saw this building months ago [...]

We’ve had lots and lots of questions about how you connect 12V DC power into our central power supplies. It is really simple as long as you remember that all 12V DC connections are polarity sensitive. Simply stated you connect the + to the + and the – to the – on your screw terminals [...]

The Defender dome camera has been one of our hottest sellers in 2011, and we’ve gotten some great feedback from our customers on what they like and what they’d like improved. Well…WE LISTENED! Coming in January of 2012 – INFRARED DEFENDER with the same IP68 waterproof rating. Look for the release in the January Newsletter!!! [...]

We are about to debut some new Megapixel Security Cameras in HD. But we will be doing it differently than many companies. Why? Because up until now, the only way you could have a High Def camera was to do it via IP. That was a hassle. It required extensive Networking knowledge and lots of [...]

One of the most important things to remember about your cameras is their power polarity. Almost all 12V DC cameras are polarity sensitive, which simply means, if you connect the negative wire from your camera into the positive terminal of your power supply it will actually fry components in the camera. This will damage the [...]

As some of you may already know the massive floods in Thailand have affected the current world supply of hard drives and hard drive components. The availability plummeted the day after, due to increased panic purchasing, based off of projected shortages for up to the next 9 months. It may take this long until the [...]