Are you using or considering to use surveillance system in your home,shop or office? Do you know what's the advantages and disadvantages of using it? This post will help you clear about it :-

Advantages

  1. Deter Crime: This is the biggest and the most obvious benefit of installing surveillance cameras.Whether you’re experiencing problems related to theft, punctuality, or productivity, the surveillance cameras can provide you with the solutions. It prevents your home and office from becoming easy targets.
  2. Monitor Scenarios and Activities: Surveillance cameras are extremely helpful as they enable you to monitor the activities of people visiting your home and office as well as the goings-on at these places. This is a great way to detect suspicious people and keep tabs on their activities.What's more,you can remote monitor your home and office by mobile phone anytime,anywhere.
  3. Gather Evidence: Having cameras installed in strategic places comes in handy when you need to monitor actions and words of people or during an event.The clear images coupled with flawless sound makes them more efficient than ever at recording a series of happenings.
  4. Arrive at the Right Decisions: Footage from surveillance cameras can help you make correct and fair decisions when settling disputes, both in domestic as well as professional scenarios. Whether it is dealing with a situation involving disagreements within your family, among your employees, or between a customer and your service staff, your doubts can be laid to rest with the help of your camera.
  5. Maintain Records: Surveillance system supports 24hours/7days records. So you got to know of something that happened outside your home or office about a fortnight ago and curiosity is getting the better of you? You can douse it by simply looking up your security records. Cameras record and document everything they see systematically, i.e. as per the date and the time of the event.

Disadvantages

  1. Privacy Issue: There have been a few instances in the past that huge number of surveillance cameras were attacked by hackers.Also there have been cases where employees have objected to being under constant surveillance without their permission and citing the ‘invasion of privacy’ as the reason. A few have also resorted to taking legal action against their employers in relation to this.
  2. Hi-Tech & professional thieves: A clever thief will probably know all about them and may have figured out a way to go undetected.Further, tech-savvy criminals might have understood the technology and worked out ways to disable/disconnect them from their power source. Plus, if he detects your cameras as. In worst cases, hackers can play havoc with your security camera system by using the Internet and use them to spy on you instead.This makes security cameras vulnerable to damage and/or misuse.
  3. Can’t Stop Crime: Cameras enable users to record footage for later viewing, and to help nab criminals, and receive justice from the law. They cannot, however, stop a crime when it is in progress.Even it can not stop the crime but it will help to reduce the instances of crime. People will be more vigilant and careful. Criminals will think twice before breaking into.