Phones nowadays have cameras that are so perfect in quality, yet security cameras are mostly always so grainy so why? You can get a phone with a perfect extremely high quality camera for a few hundred these days, sometimes even less
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Barring most places security is in place to ensure insurance companies are satisfied, this means they have to be good enough, but not great.
So let’s say you are a store owner, you want one camera on the door, another on the till. You have a choice, pay $75 for each camera and get an image of a grainy lower resolution or spend $150 and get a clearer image. You also need the storage device, you’re going to need big memory for 24/7 365 and 2 year retention. If you go with the cheaper lower grade cameras, you also have less data, maybe you save money here too, but those $150 cameras are going to create higher data consumption.
So, do you want to spend $1000, or want to spend $500?
What purpose are your cameras serving? Well we want to be able to show the insurance company proof we were robbed, we want to show the clerk followed protocols, and we want to give police a general idea of who they’re looking for if they did a patrol immediately after the robbery.
The cheaper camera picks up the suspect is male, white, about 6″ on reference to the shelving, wearing a red jacket, jeans, and white shoes, at 10:58pm he pointed a gun at the clerk who emptied the till, put the money in something and handed it over, thief then runs out at 10:59pm heading left out the door
The expensive camera picks up the suspect is male, white, 6″2, wearing a dark red Adidas Jacket, Blue jeans with a black belt, looking baggy, white reebok sneakers, he has a small moustache,he enters the store at 10:58 and pulls a black gun concealed in his jacket, the clerk empties the till into a white plastic bag with a Chinese food restaurant name on the side, the thief runs out the door at 10:59 heading left out the door.
Either way, the police are getting told to look for a white male, 6″ thereabouts, wearing a red jacket, blue jeans, maybe carrying the bag, but maybe stashed in a pocket, also armed, and last seen heading westward up King Street.
Either way the insurance company sees you were in fact robbed, and had proper measures qualifying your claim. Why would you spend the extra $500 for fancier cameras if you got the similar results?
Some cameras just need to show whether a person Si somewhere they shouldn’t be, it doesn’t matter identifying the person.
Some cameras are just meant to indicate there’s a truck at the gate, identifying themselves through an intercom.
Some cameras are just there to monitor equipment, you don’t need high end footage to see a room filling with smoke or a transformer sparking.
Some cameras are just there to ensure a door is closed when it should be, or monitor traffic in and out of an area.
It’s not always about getting a high quality image of someone’s face, or license plate, when a basic camera is good enough.
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