Just What Is Surveillance Technology?
By Julianna Munro, Fri Dec 9th

The technology of surveillance equipment is continuing toadvance at a very rapid pace. As a result surveillance equipmenthas become almost ubiquitous in retail stores, public schools,gas stations, and airport terminals all across the UnitedStates. There is a wide range of surveillance technology that isavailable on the market. Surveillance equipment ranges fromwiretapping phone and internet based equipment to high techfacial feature recognition computer software known as biometrics.

Surveillance equipment makes the world infinitely moremanageable for people who need to protect their belongings andprotect people and make its far more difficult for people whoactually want to commit crime. As more of the high-techsurveillance equipment becomes more and more easily available tothe general public and small business owners, more and morepeople will reap the benefits.

The basic concept that underpins a piece ofsurveillance-equipment is one of 'you will be seen'. The gist ofit is that criminals may well think twice about committing acrime if they think they might be seen, identified and thenfound later on and be charged with a crime. Although it isunlikely that everything can be caught on surveillance camera atone time, on the occasions when surveillance does pick upactivity, it does provide enormous help to security and policein identifying the offenders.

These



days the more advanced surveillance equipment operates inthe same way in an effort prevent crime from occurring, so ithas not veered from its original intent. Indeed many smallbusinesses decide to install dummy cameras that don't actuallyrecord anything, indeed don't even turn on, but act more as apreventative measure for potential offenders.

One of the main reasons for the establishment of surveillanceequipment is to prevent the theft of merchandise from stores andwarehouses. Usually offenders come from outside the company andso the theft can be caught on tape and referred to the police.But on occasion the offender will actually come from within thecompany and then employee policy needs to be implemented. Upondiscovering the internal offender that employee will usuallyfind themselves without a job.

Apart from the examples outlined earlier, shopping malls,parking garages, office buildings, and warehouses and financialinstitutions all now commonly use video based surveillanceequipment in order to protect their wares and to also to limitthe costly losses incurred by dishonest employees. Majordepartment stores who have high internal theft rates use thesevideo surveillance systems to actively prosecute thievingemployees.

About the author:Julianna Munro is the owner of First Surveillance(http://www.firstsurveillance.com) which is a premier source ofinformation about Surveillance. For more information, go to:http://firstsurveillance.com

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