If you want to feel extra secure about what goes on in your home when you’re not there, you need to consider investing in wireless home security cameras. Surveillance cameras come in many varieties, and they’re getting more affordable and easy to find all the time. That both makes it easy to get one (or several), but makes it difficult to choose the best home security camera for your purpose.
An article in the new Electronic House explains all the best features to look for in home security cameras and tells you what features matter most.
For example, a camera that can tilt, pan and zoom may cost more, and you might believe that’s an unnecessary expense, but a tilt, pan and zoom camera gives you a much greater coverage area and may in fact allow you to use one camera instead of two fixed cameras to cover the same range.
If you want a permanently installed camera, there are several primary styles on the market, and each serves a specific purpose. Some home security cameras are more practical in some situations than others. To find out which fit your needs, check out this article.
Besides form factor and installation, what other features do you need in your home security cameras? Do you need it to be able to record in the dark? If so, then you need one with night vision capabilities. Do you need an outdoor security camera? Do you want to be able to access it from your smart phone? Where do you want the recordings to be stored, and how do you want to be notified if something is detected and recorded?
This article helps you sort through those questions to you get the system that will best protect your house.
To get the full scoop on all home security cameras, get the Electronic House Home Security Camera Buying Guide.
Trey Burdette says
Being an industry professional for many years, I have noticed a lot of homeowners want cameras. When I ask them why, a lot of them do not have definitive answers. I would suggest that you understand the “why” when taking on adding cameras to your home. They have many uses, those uses should be an integral part of the decision process in order for them to be effective and efficient not to mention making it easier to spend the money.
grant clauser says
Great point Trey. What would you suggest are the most important answers to the “why?” question? What a person wants to use the cameras for will also help determine the type of camera, features and locations.
David Mrazik says
Trey’s point also brings out the fact that people see and want. They’ve already justified to themselves in some way that they need it bad enough that they called a professional. It’s up to us to give them sound reasons. When they tell their friends about why they’re paying good money to have equipment installed, we’ve given them solid reasons from our experiences to relay to their friends. Not to say that having cameras installed is just cool unnecessary technology. I had a recent client tell me he wanted cameras installed because when he was closed inside his movie theatre man-cave, he didn’t know what was going on around the outside of his house, and it freaked him out. Point taken. And I was glad to be able to assist him with everything he wanted. Maybe when my dad was growing up, security wasn’t a big issue, but now people are bold enough to walk inside your home during the daylight with your kids in the back yard. That’s when you’re thankful you had a good quality system installed.
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