Thursday, July 30, 2009

Setting Up Wireless Home Security Cameras for Your Home

By Matt Peters

There are all sorts of cameras that can be used in the improvement of security around the house. They come in all shapes and sizes.

Since they can be hidden in any space that they can fit into wireless home security cameras are probably the best ones to come out in the security industry. They can still work too as long as the space does not interfere with or block the signal the wireless home security cameras transmit to the computer or console they are connected to.

Fool Them

Since wireless home security cameras can be set up just about anywhere and made to look like anything, pick objects that you think people will not figure for a camera. For example, you may want to disguise your wireless home security cameras inside stuffed toys and place them around the house. Burglars will not want to take things that are of no value and stuffed toys look harmless so they will not think for a minute that the eyes of a stuffed toy were actually replaced with wireless home security cameras.

Wireless home security cameras can also be hidden from view because it can simply be attached into ordinary everyday objects like bookshelves or lamps. The more creative you are in hiding the wireless home security cameras, the more careless burglars will be because they will continue rummaging through your home not thinking that they are being recorded at all.

Dummy Cams

Some homeowners can ward off burglars and malicious guests by making them believe they have more than one camera installed. For example, you might have one or two wireless home security cameras monitoring your home. But you can also install dummy cameras. These cameras look exactly like cameras and you can set them up all around the house. People will think twice when seeing these cameras pointed in their direction. All the while, the real cameras are actually installed in places where these dummy cameras are not. These real cameras will be recording the areas that really need protecting from intruders.

As long as you can make people believe they're constantly being watched, they will never try anything funny. Dummy cameras can also be set up outside the house in the yard or backyard to ward off burglars who will see them and think that they cannot break into your home.

Better wireless home security cameras are being designed every year. A new feature is added with each release of the newer technology. Today's wireless home security cameras are so efficient that they can even record in the dark and in full color. This is a feature called night vision. Originally night vision could only record images that would come out greenish in color. With that said, imagine just how advanced wireless home security cameras will be in the future as they get smaller and more configurable so that you can use them in any way that you want.

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