Is a wireless security camera system the best choice for your home or business? Good afternoon
everyone. Mike from CCTV Camera Pros here. In this video, I want to talk about some of the
pros and cons of using a wireless security camera system, specifically a wireless IP camera system,
and I'm going to talk about a few different types of wireless camera systems and how
they work and what the pros and cons are of each type. So first off, let's talk about an
indoor wireless security camera system, a wireless system that consists only of
indoor cameras. These systems usually consist of a network video recorder, and then two to eight,
or even sometimes sixteen IP cameras that have a built-in wireless antenna. That wireless antenna
can connect to a wireless router or access point, and the network recorder is on that same network,
so it can connect to those cameras that are connected to the wireless network essentially.
We supply these. We have indoor wireless systems, and they work pretty good, actually. They're
reliable because the cameras have a good solid communication with the wireless access point
because both the access point antenna and the cameras are both indoors. You can even mix and
match wireless cameras and hardwired IP cameras with our systems. That's no problem. We can mix
and match however you want. You can have a hybrid system of both wireless and hardwired cameras, but
the wireless cameras are for indoor use only. I do recommend even indoor cameras using wireless as a
last resort option because keep in mind, you still have to supply power to these cameras. They come
with a 12-volt DC power supply that you can power near where you mount the camera. We don't supply
any battery powered wireless cameras. We don't like them, honestly. Most of them are very cheaply
made and they cause problems, so we completely stay away from battery powered wireless cameras.
Let's talk about outdoor wireless cameras. A lot of customers come to us and they assume that you
can have a wireless router inside your home or business, and then you can mount a camera outside
of your home or office building, and that camera will be able to reliably communicate over the
wireless access point provided by the wireless router through the building walls and whatever
interior walls that wireless transmission needs to go through. That doesn't work in our experience.
You can't have an outdoor wireless camera communicating with an indoor wireless router.
It's just not reliable. You need a reliable connection to record video surveillance and
also to view your cameras remotely. That needs to be a persistent and reliable connection,
and we've found over the many years at CCTV Camera Pros in testing that outdoor wireless
cameras simply don't work. The types that are mounted outdoors and communicating with a wireless
access point indoors, we do not recommend those, and we do not carry outdoor wireless cameras.
However, we do carry long-range wireless antennas for outdoors that are used for
direct point-to-point and point-to-multi-point communication. So, what do I mean by that? These
are wireless bridges where you would mount an antenna on the outside of one building,
that could be your home, and the outside of another building, that could be a barn, if
we're talking about residential, or you could have a commercial site where you need to communicate
the cameras from one building to another because your recorder is in this building, and you want to
have some cameras in another building. Basically, that provides a stable and persistent connection
because the antennas have direct line of sight. They're both mounted outdoors, and you can connect
multiple security cameras to that transmitting antenna using a network switch and transmit the
signal from all the cameras back to the receiving antenna. Then on the receiving side, that's where
your network video recorder will be located. You can also have hardwired cameras in that
building where your NVR is. So in summary there, you could have five cameras for example,
on your home hardwired to the NVR. You could have a barn or an external garage that has
three or four cameras installed, IP cameras. They're hardwired to a network switch. The
switch is wired to a transmitting antenna. That transmitting antenna antenna sends a signal from
all those cameras back to the receiving antenna at your house, and now you have
all those cameras recording on the network video recorder that is located inside of your house.
So, I just want to summarize real quick. Wireless security cameras, the indoor ones
still require power. You have to connect them to a wall outlet to provide power to them.
We recommend them only as a last resort option for convenience if you absolutely cannot run a network
cable between your NVR or DVR and your camera. Battery powered wireless cameras, in our opinion,
are typically low quality, and don't last, and are problematic, and they're a hassle. You have to
charge them. We don't recommend them and we don't carry them. Something to mention, there are many
more hardwired IP camera choices when you compare them to wireless. There's dome style cameras,
bullet style, there's cameras with motorized varifocal lenses. There's pan-tilt-zoom cameras.
We have AI security cameras that are excellent that do object detection and can do some other
things, and then license plate recognition cameras all in hardwired options that you
could use that long range wireless bridge that I mentioned, but none of those cameras are wireless.
I highly recommend our Viewtron IP camera systems. You can mix and match the Viewtron
indoor wireless IP camera, along with hardwired IP cameras, and the mobile apps for iPhone and
Android for the remote viewing are excellent. You could view your cameras live remotely.
You could play back recorded video surveillance from the DVR and perform a whole bunch of other
functions. Same for the Mac software and Windows software that's included.
If you have any questions about any of this, you could reach out to me anytime. I could be reached
at mike@cctvcamerapros.net. If you want to learn more about the Viewtron IP camera systems and the
wireless IP camera system that we supply, please visit www.Viewtron.com. Thank you for watching.