How to choose the right Night Vision Security Camera

Night Vision Camera

   Here is a guide on how to choose the right night vision camera for your home or business. We are going to cover what suits your best needs and how to pick the right camera. Security cameras were use to be limited to businesses and major corporations, but that has all changed in the past decade or so with the reduce cost of goods and so forth.

1. Before buying a night vision security camera, it is important to study what your needs are for your security system. Meaning that you have to consider the area that needs to be covered and the number of cameras needed to protect your home or business.

2. Sometime you might need to record audio but it might be illegal to do so in your state, please check with local and state laws before considering getting a security system with a microphone. Cameras with mics built in is a very useful tool when you want to fully document everything that is going on in your home or business.

3. To save on cost, sometimes it is not necessary to buy all weatherproof night vision cameras. You can always get weatherproof night vision cameras for outdoors. Weatherproof cameras housing are meant to protect your cameras for the elements such as wind, snow, rain, the hot sun and so forth. For indoor use, it is not necessary to use weatherproof cameras because it is in a controlled environment. Generally weatherproof cameras cost more then dome or box cameras. It would be best to use dome/ box cameras for indoors.

4. The next point to consider when choosing security cameras is the location of the cameras. If the location is hard to wire, then it is better to choose a wireless security camera system. But you might get interference with a wireless system, but here are some tips to reduce the interference.

  Mount the receiver as high as possible in your home or business.
Make transmitter to receiver as clear of obstructions as possible.
Steel or aluminum siding can greatly reduce range of transmitter to receiver range.