| Security camera systems are undeniably important to | | | | that there is nothing to hide. Several auto shops that |
| help protect your business from theft and vandalism, | | | | have installed these systems not only saw a greater |
| as well as to provide video to police if anything occurs | | | | amount of traffic to their websites, but also improved |
| at your business. However, a quality PC-Based DVR | | | | the return rate of their customers and saw a boost in |
| Security Camera system can be used for many more | | | | customer referrals. Storage facilities have used |
| purposes when configured properly. Security cameras | | | | cameras, to install into specific high-rate storage units, |
| are generating content 24 hours a day, which can | | | | and provided customers with a login through their |
| easily be used to help your business stand apart from | | | | website. By being able to view their storage facility |
| the rest of your competitors. Benefits are not limited to | | | | with an Infrared Night vision camera at any time |
| specific businesses, but can be adapted to virtually any | | | | through their website, their customers were more |
| business, to help customers remember you, talk about | | | | confident in the security of the facility. |
| you, and refer others to you as well. | | | | Restaurants and Bars, especially in popular destination |
| First, it is important to ensure that you have a camera | | | | locations, have used publicly accessible video |
| system that can support easy remote viewing by your | | | | surveillance cameras on their website for years, to |
| customers. We always recommend PC-Based DVR | | | | allow their customers to call their friends and family |
| Card/Software packages for this application, because | | | | and see them on the web. These web cameras can |
| they offer the best remote viewing options, and can | | | | easily be tied into a PC-Based DVR Surveillance |
| generally support hundreds of simultaneous logins. The | | | | camera system to provide features to countless |
| system that we have used for most of our forward | | | | customers and help increase traffic to the restaurant |
| thinking business customers is the Alnet Systems | | | | or bar by patrons. |
| PC-Based DVR Cards, which install into a standard | | | | Pet kennels are also a business that deals with the |
| Windows XP or Windows Vista PC, and allow for | | | | public trust. Clients have to trust the facility to provide |
| remote viewing from hundreds of simultaneous users. | | | | adequate food, water and love to their pets while they |
| This system allows you to permit access to specific | | | | are out of town or on vacation. By placing strategic |
| cameras only, so that you can specify certain | | | | cameras in the kennel areas, as well as in the areas |
| cameras only to be viewable by customers. If you | | | | around the building, and providing logins to their |
| currently have a more limited VCR Based or | | | | customers, these dog kennels can provide their |
| Standalone DVR Security Camera system, you can | | | | customers with the ability to watch their dogs over the |
| easily remove the DVR or VCR and install a PC with | | | | internet, from their PDA Phone, Windows Smartphone |
| a DVR Card. The cameras will plug directly into the | | | | or Laptop from anywhere in the world. Now |
| DVR Card, instead of the standalone DVR or VCR, | | | | customers not only have a greater peace of mind |
| allowing for a simple upgrade to your existing camera | | | | about leaving their pet, but they trust the facility more, |
| system. The PC-Based DVR systems are easily | | | | and are more likely to not only use the service again, |
| upgradeable by installing additional cards into the PC, | | | | but also refer additional clients. |
| allowing you to keep your existing cameras for | | | | Every day, millions of people leave their children with |
| security, and adding additional cameras for content. | | | | daycare facilities, despite the fact that nightmares |
| Once you know that your system is capable of | | | | about how children have been mistreated at some |
| broadcasting video to your customers, it is time to look | | | | facilities still spatter across the news. This makes it |
| at some of the hidden benefits of your business | | | | very difficult for parents to choose the facility that they |
| security camera system. The type of business is | | | | can trust with their children. It is easy to show parents |
| important to consider when you are looking at using | | | | that your daycare center can be trusted, and provide |
| your cameras to the benefit of your business. Think of | | | | value-added service to the parents at the same time |
| something that can help make an impact to your | | | | by installing a remote viewable CCTV security camera |
| customers with video content. For example, our | | | | system. Not only will this show the parents that you |
| shipping facility uses our camera systems to take | | | | are serious about the security of your facility, but you |
| snapshots and video of packages as they are being | | | | can also set up a user account for the parents, so that |
| shipped. When our packages are shipped out, | | | | they can connect in and view their children over the |
| customers receive an email with a JPG image of their | | | | internet using a web browser, or even with their PDA |
| package as it is being checked before it is boxed. That | | | | Phone or Windows Mobile Smartphone. This makes |
| way, customers can see their items, and it provides a | | | | the choice of where to entrust their children an easy |
| great personal touch, as well as helps catch any errors | | | | decision. |
| before the customer even receives their package. | | | | The above examples are in no way the only extended |
| Other uses include auto repair facilities, with cameras | | | | application of security cameras for improving your |
| showing the bays of their facility as well as the parking | | | | business model. They are just meant to show some |
| lot. These cameras can be embedded into a web | | | | of the limitless possibilities of a quality DVR surveillance |
| page, so customers can simply view the cameras live | | | | camera system. Once cameras are in place, it is time |
| by viewing their website. This allows customers to | | | | to simply ask yourself, how you can use the content |
| view their vehicle while it is in the parking lot, or in the | | | | to improve upon your business model, improve |
| shop being worked on by the technicians. The Auto | | | | customer trust and loyalty, and improve sales at your |
| Repair market in general has suffered in the past 20 | | | | facility. It is time to stop looking at security camera |
| years from trust issues with the public, stemming from | | | | systems as just security devices, and to start |
| some facilities that break the public trust. Customers | | | | considering them as genuine business assets that can |
| can see the trustworthiness of your business, when | | | | be used to improve your overall business model. |
| they can view their car at any time; it lets them see | | | | |