Most car dealerships across the country have been using security cameras systems for years. Securing Automobile Dealerships with Video Surveillance Cameras provides a great return on investment (ROI). Surveillance cameras can be a great asset in deterring theft, documenting preexisting exterior vehicle condition, and boosting sales.

  • Service Bay cameras can document vehicles entering and exiting the bays as well as while vehicles are being serviced. This can protect against fraudulent claims of damages to vehicles while they are being serviced.  
  • With the cost of fuel it’s important to know who is filling what vehicles at the dealership fuel pumps.  
  • Cameras can be used to alert sales staff of potential clients entering the dealership property.  
  • Protection against break in, vandalized vehicle, and auto parts theft.

A security camera system at a car dealership can be a great way to cut down on abuse or vandalism from both staff and customers, and it can also be a greatSecurity Camera Auto Dealershipdeterrent and aid in the prevention and prosecution of thefts. Additionally management and owners can benefit by monitor all areas of the dealership and shop remotely across the internet in real time and even remotely play back previously recorded events.

Some new developments in the world of professional grade security camera systems include the ability to mix traditional CCTV cameras with IP or Network Cameras in with a server based central management system. You may have recently read about IP cameras and may be thinking IP cameras are the owl’s eye. Well, I would not go that far but I do think it’s worth mentioning how Network IP cameras can help the security situation at any car dealership.

IP cameras have the ability to record their video at High Definition resolution, measured in mega-pixels. A car dealership using PC Based Central Management Software (CMS), can take advantage of this increased resolution in key areas and incorporate IP cameras into a traditional CCTV environment. For example, a high resolution IP camera monitoring the cars on the lot can give the dealership owner the ability to digitally zoom in during or after an incident and more easily capture details that would otherwise be lost with lower resolution CCTV cameras. The same technique could be applied to other critical areas of the facility such as any choke points and garage bays that either cars or people must all pass through.

IP cameras with their increasing resolution place high demands on networks and struggle to transmit at frame rate speeds commonly requested of a traditional CCTV security camera. The trade-off is frame rates vs. image resolution, the higher the resolution the more bandwidth and processing power that is required to transmit the video at high frame rates. Currently a reasonable expectation is between 12 – 18 frames per second on a mega-pixel IP camera compared to the lower resolution analog CCTV cameras that can easily record at 30 frames per second. These symptoms can be offset by installing a standalone network, with high bandwidth cabling and Quality of Service Switching.

IP cameras have built-in intelligence referred to as a web server to provide the ability to connect directly to the internet or intranet allowing an IP camera to be directly accessible across a traditional office network, internet and cloud based services. multi-site monitoring, multiple event notifications methods are supported and are capable of being used by management, and local law enforcement in real time in case of any undesirable incidents.

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