Rugged CCTV

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 [...]

by Jennifer Spears – Business Solutions Manager License Plate Recognition Cameras otherwise known as LPR cameras are meant to do one thing. Can you guess what it is??? You guessed it! They are made to capture license plates very VERY well. If you aren’t familiar with LPR technology let me explain a few things. These [...]

by Jennifer Spears So you’ve decided that you need cameras. And wireless is going to fix every problem you have with running cables, getting power to the cameras, and it’s going to be snap to install them… Let me go ahead and get my fairy wand out for you! Because that’s the only thing that [...]

I’d like to introduce you to our newest employee. Dale Burnett has accepted our offer of employment as a manager – Brand Marketing. His first day was July 5th 2011. Dale has 21 years of experience in increasingly responsible roles within sales & marketing with a manufacturing firm. In his most recent position, Dale managed [...]

So you don’t want to just access your new Rugged CCTV DVR through your smart phone’s web browser any longer? Now you can do it DIRECT to your phone! Need more than 1 channel at a time on your Droid iPad or other phone? Want to be able to manipulate your PTZ cameras straight from [...]

by Jennifer Spears Now I know this is going to sound really REALLY simple – because it is. But it is SO important and I just don’t think a lot of customers or installers (you know who you are) think to do it until it is too late. LABEL YOUR CABLING. Yup that’s it. When [...]

by Jennifer Spears Here are the 3 most common analog style video input connectors you will find on cameras and DVRs. BNC, RCA and RJ11. I’ll discuss each briefly and tell you what to watch out for. (RJ45 connectors are used for Network and IP camera connections, and we will cover this style of connector [...]

The latest technological leap in Security Camera technology is here. It’s called Starlight Cameras. You won’t need Infrared anymore for most purposes because the newest Starlight technology amplifies light sorta like the Flir cameras the Police use. You won’t believe what this will do for you. No more blurry night time pictures from the Infrared [...]

OK this is a simple matter but a lot of customers get these two settings confused, backwards, or think they mean the same thing. Resolution is the size of the picture. A DVR can normally record at one of 3 setting options. CIF, Field and Full or CIF, 2CIF, and 4CIF which correspond to the [...]