IP Security Camera: What is IP security camera?

IP security camera is a device us to watch or view any live activity by camera assigned and it can be watch from anywhere on a computer network. Even better IP security camera can be used via internet so that we can watch the live activity anywhere in the world. Now a day security is very much important for our house and any business location (shop or office) to monitor and recording any unnecessary activity, therefore IP security camera will help us to do the job.

Long before IP security camera exist, video security systems was performed by using a Closed Circuit Television or better known as CCTV. CCTV consists of analog camera, videotape recorder (VCR) and coaxial cable. After that the IP security camera systems started to become a member of a digital world with the introduction of CCD sensor. The CCD sensor is used to capture live image from the camera into digital mode picture but still the picture is go to VCR through analog coaxial cable. Years after that IP security camera systems was upgraded by using Digital Video Recorder (DVR). However the DVR still connected to analog camera to capture and record the image. The best about DVR is that it can retrieve and search any image easily and more helpful compared to VCR. During these years all display image can be seen using television (TV) until it was replaced by a PC monitor connected to DVR.

Now a day, the security camera system has been fully digitized. This has introduced an IP security camera or so called Network security camera. IP security camera or network camera is a combination with camera, processor, software and PC (or any hardware). This IP security camera can be connected directly to existing IP networks and therefore eliminating the need for separate and expensive coaxial cable networks. Images can be viewed and cameras managed from anywhere via internet, plus any hard disk on the network can be set up to record the video output.

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