Configuring Home Security Camera Setups

Using a hidden home security camera setup around the house can save you a tremendous amount of time and add to your overall comfort when you are away.

Along Your Home's Property Lines

You may want to setup a home security camera to get a permanent picture of any animal or human that comes on to your property. Having an actual picture is worth a thousand words. The use of these cameras can continually monitor the status of your valuables that must be left outdoors such as patio furniture, cars, trucks and construction equipment. To be most effective, your home security camera setup should be disguised as something else so as to avoid it being taken out by a sophisticated burglar. Popular disguises include trees and birds.

Inside your Home

The most popular setup for home security cameras is for monitoring our own children when we are not at home or out of town. This would also show you how your children are treated by a nanny or babysitter when you are far from home.

Being a victim of a fire at your house, you would more likely to be able to identify the source of the ignition if you had a home security camera setup that gave you views of every room in your house.

Inside the Company You Work For

Just like you should assume that every e-mail you send from work is being monitored, you also should assume that just about everything you do at work is being captured on camera. In this manner, your activities will always be beyond approach.

In Your Everyday Life

At every intersection in your city, there will soon be a security camera setup that resembles the setup you have at home except this one will send you a ticket for running a red light. Some people claim this is big brother type of invasion of their constitutional rights. Speeding tickets will be sent in the mail for any speeding infraction around the city. This type of enforcement saves a lot of money and usually presents indisputable evidence of the crime committed.

Caution

Just like recording a phone conversation without the other person's knowledge can be illegal, so can recording a person's activities with the use of a hidden home security camera setup. So if you think you need to use one, consult a lawyer to make sure you are not making illegal use of this technology.