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Why I am Changing my Mind about IP Cameras

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Recently, one advantage of IP camera systems has emerged. This advantage is responsible for forcing me to consider IP camera systems more frequently than before.

No, the concerns about life safety and mission critical applications does not go away. We may just need to spend a lot more money, time and effort on getting the infrastructure as optimal as possible, and in some cases deploy a hybrid – IP /HD Analog System.

How Artificial Intelligence is driving the IP Camera trend.

The major advantage which is causing this refocus – is that an IP camera is literally a mini computer or server. IP Cameras have CPU capability on-board. They are now outpacing HD Analog systems in the area of compute power.

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Management blamed the CCTV system when they couldn’t get the footage?

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All of these problems are due to design and management failures.Lack of Maintenance and Auditing You cannot just install a cctv system and forget about it. Your cctv system shoud be accompanied by a detailed audit, service and maintainence plan. The plan should include auditing of camera function and views, and a procedure for rapid reporting and repair.Most companies just assume that the system is functioning.

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Controlling Damage and Loss Claims at the Car Wash

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It is reported that damage claims are the primary loss leader in the car wash industry. These claims directly affect business by slowing or stopping the cleaning line and distracting employees from the core job of servicing customers

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The Global Smart Home Trend – Part V – Smart Plugs and Things

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Smart plugs can be controlled via a smart app, or can be linked to your digital voice assistant for voice control.

The smart plug does need to stay switched on for it to communicate with the app.

Smart plugs and breakers are great for switching devices when you are away from home. Watering the garden, feeding the pets, pool pumps and cleaners, lights, and more. If you have left the office and aren’t sure whether something was left on, or not turned on as it should be – smart plugs with a smart app will prove very useful.

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Beating the Load Shedding Blues

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The first thing is the total current demand from your system.

Let’s look at an easy way to determine this.

Look at the capacity of the battery that has been supplied. Mostly you will find a 7AH or 8AH battery. In some instances you may have been provided with an 18AH battery.

Establish for how long the battery maintains your system when the power outs, and divide the capacity of the battery with the number of hours of operation maintained.

This rough calculation will give you an estimate of the Current in Amps that your system will draw per hour.

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The Global Smart Home Trend -Smart Locks- Part IV-4

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Smart Locks – some say, will do away with the need for physical keys. You will however continue to need your physical keys. When the smart system fails for any reason, you will need a method to manually access at least one of the doors.I have had occasion to call glass-smiths to remove windows, so that occupants could access the building after a bio-metric failure. Your smart lock designs need to consider the manual alternatives in the event of a failure.Smart locks do however reduce bottlenecks within access control processes, enhance efficiency, safety, and security.

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The Global Smart Home Trend – Part IV-3

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Smart cameras can be deployed for indoor monitoring of babies, and elderly relatives living in the home.What classifies as a smart indoor camera? The best way to discuss this is to use an example of our most popular camera – the Imou Ranger 2 camera.So let’s look at the features of this camera, as most smart cameras should include some of these features.

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Global Smart Home Trend Part IV-2

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The smart home is a synergistic system in which burglar alarm devices, cameras, locks, lighting and everything else integrates to a single platform. In these systems a detected event can initiate subsequent actions – such as turning on specific lights, notifying responders, locking doors and more.

The smart home doesn’t only detect intruders. Smart homes are able to detect smoke, fire, toxic gasses, falling, lack of motion and a lot more than the traditional alarm system.

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Global Smart Home Trend – Part IV

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An effective security system is not going to comprise of 16 cameras of exactly the same specification. Each scene may need varying lens sizes, features for handling light, and other custom features. Online camera kits are freely available, but users have been sorely disappointed when they really need the footage.

Let’s look at some of the features and trends.

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Building Your Smart Home With Gensix Tech

The Global Smart Home Trend – Part II

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In the smart home – that’s not a nice to have. Smart homes depend on wi-fi coverage.

Logically, the second step in building your smart home, is to create a wi-fi mesh network.

The mesh network creates seamless wi-fi coverage throughout your home. As you move about the house, your devices will seamlessly connect to the strongest signal.

You might have seen some clunky systems like this. Those systems need you to manually connect to different sources in the house each time you are out of range of the last connection.

The core wi-fi mesh created by gensix keeps you connected seamlessly, wherever you are in the house. Our basic system will provide coverage over 3500 square meters, we can also future proof the system by deploying our wi-fi6 systems – the brand new wi-fi standard.

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