You cannot overstress the importance of a CCTV system to business owners. Besides being the silent, watchful eye at night, security cameras keep track of both employees' and customers' movement within a premise during the day. However, if you have owned a CCTV system for quite a while, you should consider upgrading it. Some business owners ignore the importance of such upgrades only to realise the benefits when they are in trouble. Here are the reasons for upgrading an existing surveillance system. 

Improved Image Quality

Security camera technology keeps changing, but the focus is usually on improving image quality. After all, what is the need of installing a surveillance system if you cannot zoom images without losing the resolution? Today, you can find affordable security cameras with high-definition capabilities. Therefore, you do not have to break the bank for an upgrade if you have old security cameras with low resolution. Talk to a surveillance system vendor and ask them for the latest cameras. Upgrades will help you capture detailed footage with excellent image quality.  

Increased Storage Space

One disadvantage with old surveillance systems is their limited storage space. For instance, recorded footage is typically stored in a hard disk. When there is no more storage space on a hard disk, you either delete footage or replace the storage device. Therefore, security personnel have to keep tabs on the available disk space to make changes in good time. If disk space runs out at night, you will not have any footage if there is a security breach. Upgraded systems have unlimited storage space thanks to cloud services. Rather than save security footage on a hard drive, newer CCTV models send data to your business' cloud account for storage. The best thing is that you can store as much footage as you like, which is useful for investigation purposes. For instance, if you need surveillance footage of an incident that occurred two years earlier, you can easily pull it from the Cloud. 

Additional Features

An upgrade of any piece of technology is a better version. It is what you get with upgraded security cameras. One noticeable change with upgrades is that they make a surveillance system to work effectively. For example, while older security cameras can only record footage in black and white, you can choose between black and white and coloured recording in the latest versions. Furthermore, additional features make security camera easy to operate, for instance, Wi-Fi integration. 

Reach out to a professional to discuss security cameras for your premises. 

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