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We would be very interested in hearing anyones’ results or comments on this type of spy camera product.  Have you used the sunglasses camera? Please let us know what you think and if you got good results, or bad, from this surveillance product.  The problem in the UK could be the relatively few times you [...]

A standard home or small business CCTV system will comprise of 3 main parts, the digital video recorder or DVR, the security cameras and the cabling. The siting of your security cameras is arguably the most impotant aspect of your CCTV system, get this wrong or have the surveillance cameras covering the wrong areas and [...]

You often hear cyclists complaining about car drivers and car drivers complaining about cyclists.  Maybe the answer is for cyclists to wear helmet cameras in an attempt to capture dangerous driving by car drivers and so bring this debate into the public arena at a higher level. A helmet camera would give a riders eye [...]

These are our current top 5 best selling products from our entire range of CCTV,  video surveillance, audio surveillance, wireless camera and spy camera products. 1.  Infared Trail Camera / Portable Fly Tipping Camera / Wildlife Camera 2.  Pen Camera / Spy Pen / Pen DVR Camera 3.  2.4GHz Wireless Camera / Pinhole Camera / [...]

CCTV signs, CCTV warning signs and CCTV in operation signs are not only a legal necessity for most CCTV systems but they can also act as a powerful crime deterent. For the home or small business a CCTV warning sign could be the difference between a perpetrator choosing your building or moving on and looking [...]

This question regarding PTZ cameras is one we always ask customers when they have enquired about going down the route of installing PTZ cameras in their CCTV system. PTZ cameras in the right situation are  superb (if you get a good one!) and will certainly offer some magnificent results, however if a PTZ camera is [...]

CCD and CMOS are the two different types of image sensor used in our CCTV cameras and wireless cameras. CCD is the abbreviation for “charged coupled device”. CMOS is the abbreviation for “complementary metal oxide semiconductor”. All sounds quite complicated but the basics when it comes to which camera you should choose are the  : [...]

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A local council reportedly spent £10,000 on a fly tipping camera or a surveillance camera to monitor fly tipping.  They could have had 60 of our fly tipping cameras for that price! To be fair, I do not know the specifications of the surveillance system used except that it was a hidden camera inside a [...]

If you’re looking for a wildlife camera then the infrared trail camera is about as good as we’ve come across.  It’s motion activated and completely weatherproof, so ideal for capturing video footage of wildlife. The entire product is contained inside a weatherproof case (I left one of these in my dads’ garden for 3 days [...]