For a shop, office or home, the choice usually comes down to AHD or IP cameras. Both can give you a clear picture. They differ in cabling, flexibility and cost.<\/p>\n
AHD cameras send high definition video over coaxial cable to a DVR. They are simple, usually less expensive, and a good fit when you already have coax cable in place and want to upgrade the picture quality without re-cabling.<\/p>\n
IP cameras connect to the network, usually over a single Cat6 cable that also provides power. They offer higher resolutions, smarter features and easier expansion, and they can be recorded to an NVR or to storage on your network.<\/p>\n
If you are starting fresh or expect to add cameras later, IP is normally the better long-term choice. If the budget is tight, the building already has coax, and four to eight cameras will do, AHD is perfectly reasonable.<\/p>\n
Camera count, resolution and the number of days you want to keep footage decide the hard disk size. Ask your installer to show the calculation instead of quoting a disk size by guesswork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A plain comparison of the two most common camera types, and when each one makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cctv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arnsec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arnsec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arnsec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arnsec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arnsec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arnsec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arnsec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arnsec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}