At the end of any day, retail businesses equipped with IP camera security systems are sitting on a valuable cache of high resolution video. Conventional thinking would hold with its being stored for a set period of time, and if no forensic need arises, being deleted.
However, forward thinking management recognizes its value in optimizing a store’s bottom line performance.
Today’s security professional’s duties bear little resemblance to those of the security guard of the mid-twentieth century. Gone are the days when padlocks and fences were sufficient to keep intruders at bay; back when a guard’s duties consisted of making patrols and authorizing admittance consisted of the wave of a hand.
When the twenty-first century ushered in the adoption of IP camera systems, a new era of security dawned. Anyone hoping to become a security professional today needs, at the very minimum, working knowledge of IP cameras and video management software.