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It’s Time To Start Wiring With CAT-6e by Allen Spears – Chief Engineer Rugged CCTV Our installers report that about 80-90% of new installations are being wired with CAT-6e now. So, if you’re still running CAT-5e, start changing over immediately.  This means you’ll have to order CAT-6e, and you’ll need to purchase new RJ-45 connectors [...]

Unfortunately, everybody gets to share that jarring feeling of discovering that your property or business has been robbed and vandalized. No one is immune.

The Problems With IP Cameras – by Allen Spears – Rugged CCTV As you may have already heard, Rugged CCTV is coming out with a new “Hybrid” DVR at the beginning of the year. Why Hybrid? Because there are still quite a few problems associated with IP cameras right now. The technology is maturing at [...]

Just for grins, Rugged CCTV hosted a competition among the Design Engineers for a “Pimp My Forklift” competition. The winning design is a polished Diamond Plate model that screams “Warehouse Bling“. “It was really fun, and an uplifting experience, punned Chief Engineer, Allen Spears (amid groans from the staff), “and it really raises the issue [...]

Your Business May Be Hit Next – By Allen Spears – Rugged CCTV Crime can hit your business in many different ways, and can cost you thousands in losses, deductibles and increases in coverage premiums. But crime can also impact your revenue, and in some cases, to such an extent that it could even cause [...]

The Problems With IP Cameras – by Allen Spears – Rugged CCTV As you may have already heard, Rugged CCTV is coming out with a new “Hybrid” DVR at the beginning of the year. Why Hybrid? Because there are still quite a few problems associated with IP cameras right now. The technology is maturing at [...]

How To Make Sure Your Security Camera Recordings will be the Same Quality as a DVD Movie By Allen Spears – Chief Engineer at Rugged CCTV Full Version found at http://www.rugged-cctv.com/downloads/DVD%20Quality.pdf When you are researching a Security Camera System, it is easy to be fooled into buying a system that does not have the ability [...]

Hands down, the number one mistake most operators make is buying a security camera system from a discount warehouse, Internet retailer or overseas manufacturer. You will find that these systems are not intuitive to use and are hard to navigate. The manuals are not readable or understandable, and the available resolutions that you can record [...]

We expect the cameras to get wet. In car wash bays or tunnels, there is really no way to avoid this. We also expect them to be able to put up with some abuse from customers as well. We manufacture a lot of our cameras to watertight standards, and are tested in our “dunk tank” [...]

Our main objective when developing or changing the software or user interface of our DVR’s, is to make it intuitive and easy for our customers to understand and navigate.  My feeling is, that if you have to go to the manual to figure out how to do something – it is too tough already. We [...]