Specialized Solutions for HOAs
Video Surveillance for Gated Communities
Gated communities are very popular in Central Florida. The gates provide nice curb appeal, privacy, and a degree of security for the entire neighborhood. The gates also come with high maintenance costs and even higher repair costs if they are damaged or vandalized. Unfortunately, most damage or vandalism is done when there are no witnesses, so the repair costs must be paid for by the community instead of the person(s) responsible for the act.
Obviously, the solution to this problem is to install a video surveillance system at the gates. Until recently, however, the solution was not that simple. For a video surveillance system to work properly, the cameras need to be able to feed their video to a recording system for storage. Since most gated communities in Central Florida do not have any environmentally controlled buildings at or near the gates, the sensitive video recording systems would quickly succumb to Florida's heat, humidity, and electrical surges. Additionally, the network bandwidth required to send video across the Internet directly from the cameras was so limiting, it made the recordings worthless. Finally, cameras that stored the recordings internally on a flash card were very inconvenient to access (imagine climbing a ladder to reach a weatherproof camera, unbolting the housing, and grabbing a flash card every time you wanted to view what was on it!).
After literally two years of searching and waiting for technology to "catch up" with our requirements, eFusion Systems has finally found a solution to this problem that is cost effective, reliable, flexible, and easy to use! This solution allows up to four cameras to record quality video to an on-site and secure video recording system that can withstand the harsh Central Florida environment. All you supply is power and optional broadband Internet connectivity. Since the video is recorded locally, all of the bandwidth limitations go away. Also, because the video is stored in a central recording system (instead of at each camera), access is greatly simplified; options are available for secure connectivity to the recording system via wired networking, wireless networking, or via the Internet over broadband. With any of these methods, live and recorded video can be accessed as well as copied to the client computer.
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