Companies and individuals alike often go the security route of installing video surveillance cameras over hiring a live guard to stand duty – mainly due to cost. But one gated community in San Antonio actually found that the cameras are more effective at curbing vandalism and community damage.
Before the live-monitored video cameras were installed, the gated community of Vineyard Subdivisions was having consistent problems with people crashing the pool after hours and vandalism to its six community gates. The community had live security guards, but it wasn’t possible for them to be as vigilant as a group of security cameras that are monitored remotely.
“We’ve eliminated all gate damage due to negligence and one person that accidentally rammed the gate, because of the cameras, called in and told us that they had done it,” says the HOA president.
Some of the cameras are even wireless, allowing the community to move them around the property to problem hotspots.
We don’t expect that this approach will work in all security situations, but for neighborhoods dealing with vandalism and improper facility use, surveillance cameras with remote, live-monitoring could prove to be cheaper and more effective in the long run.
Source: Security Director News
Tue, Feb 16, 2010
Video Surveillance