What is the best security camera system? Good morning everyone. Mike from CCTV
Camera Pros here. I've been asked this question literally thousands of times over the last 18
years and although it's a complicated question, in some cases because sometimes specialty cameras
are needed given certain situations, it generally comes down to this question.
Is this a brand new system with no cable in place, or are you replacing or upgrading a
existing system that already has cable? Let's take option A. If you have no
system in place, no cable in place, then go with a IP camera system using CAT5E or CAT6
cable. Real quick, what are the advantages? Well, the Viewtron NVRs we sell have built-in
power over Ethernet, so when you run the network cable from the NVR to the cameras,
it provides both power and connectivity from the NVR to the camera, so it's really plug-and-play.
In addition, these modern IP cameras are a lot more powerful and can record at a higher speed
than coax cameras. For example, our Viewtron AI security cameras have built-in artificial
intelligence software for object detection. The advantage of object detection is if you want to
record only when someone is intruding in a certain area, or a person is detected or a car is detected
and you want to record only in those situations, or you want to be alerted
via alarm when those situations happen, the AI cameras are great because with object detection,
it works so much better than the video motion detection provided by BNC cameras.
If you've worked with these before, you know that video motion detection,
there's a ton of false positives that can be very frustrating.
Okay. If you have existing cable in place and assuming it's not CAT5, because if you have CAT5,
again, just go with an IP camera system, and I do highly recommend our Viewtron AI camera systems,
but let's say you have a bunch of money invested in coax cable. Okay. What type of coax cable is
it? Is it these inexpensive pre-made cables that came with these systems that are sold at Costco
and Best Buy from QC or Lorex? Those cables sometimes in most cases can't handle the latest
4K BNC security cameras because they're not a thick enough gauge for all of the bandwidth
that's required, and you don't know until you test them if the cables are thick enough.
If you installed RG59 Siamese cable from a spool, then you're in good shape because RG59 Siamese
can handle the latest 4K BNC cameras and you can have a great
system with BNC cameras still. The only thing that's missing is the artificial intelligence,
which some people don't need, and if you have a whole bunch of money invested in your cable
via RG59, then in that case going with the BNC security camera system probably makes sense, which
I recommend our Viewtron BNC systems. They're excellent. It's actually the same software, the
same remote viewing apps, whether you go with BNC cameras or IP cameras, and you can even use both.
So again, what is the best security camera system? It could be a more complicated question
than what's covered in this video, because we have license plate recognition cameras,
we have object tracking, PTZ cameras, we have alarm security cameras. There's a lot of other
variables, but generally it comes down to, is it a new system or do you have cable in place?
Guys, if you have more questions for me on this subject or anything related to video surveillance
systems, please reach out to me anytime. I can be reached at mike@cctvcamerapros.net.
If you want to learn more about our Viewtron AI security camera systems,
our BNC systems, our license plate recognition systems,
please visit www.cctvcamerapros.com/Viewtron. Thank you for watching.