Get to Know Alarm.com's Business Security Cameras

If you’re a business owner or operator, you know most insurance companies require some type of security—whether it’s for inventory protection, IT servers holding sensitive data, or managing day-to-day operations, security is an essential part of running a business. And, it’s not surprising to learn that commercial video cameras are the most critical components of that security system. 

A Parks Associates Medium and Large Commercial Business Survey ¹  found that one-half of the business owners surveyed are very likely to purchase a new security system over the next 12 months. Even more so, security systems are the top purchase priorities for those organizations overall. 

“We worry more about video surveillance,” a survey participant who works at a K-12 school explains. “If someone gave me $100K today and told me to spend it on security, it would be on external cameras for the fields and parking lots. Being able to catch incidents is huge for us.” ²  

Video surveillance is even more important for businesses with daily foot traffic, to protect people coming and going, deter thieves, and monitor all viable entry points 24/7. Too often, business owners wait for a security incident to happen before realizing that having a reliable business surveillance system could have captured the incident in the first place. 
 

Learn who your customers are and their patterns

Besides protecting your business and products, a business surveillance system can also help improve your operations by managing day-to-day activities—with the ability to create rules around customer flow. 

Better understanding your customer’s’ traffic patterns can help you learn if there’s a specific area where customers are spending more time, like the front of the store. If so, you can relocate your newest sales display to the front to ensure greater visibility, which could lead to greater sales.  

Enhancing your video monitoring capabilities with new Alarm.com Pro Series cameras can improve overall business operations overall.  

Discover our most advanced cameras yet

The Award Winning Alarm.com Pro Series cameras are NDAA* compliant and can be used indoors and outdoors, night or day. That means what happens in the dark will be brought to light and to your attention. For example, if someone is illegally dumping furniture in your dumpsters after hours, you’ll be alerted, so you can catch them in the act. With IR night vision and 4MP recording capabilities, the business security cameras can capture footage up to almost 100 feet away and operate in temperatures as cold as -22°F and as hot as 122°F.

Weather is no issue for Pro Series cameras. They’re waterproof, dust-tight, and impact-resistant, meaning you can monitor your business rain or shine, day or night.

Review and export footage from anywhere

Adding to the lineup of the new Pro Series video line is the Commercial Streaming Video Recorder. The Pro Series CSVR combines the convenience of 24/7 local recording with cloud-connected accessibility, letting you review and export footage from anywhere. This allows you to check if your employees are arriving to work on time, without having to physically be in the building.

The Pro Series CSVR also records 4MP footage from up to 16 cameras, making sure your business is covered at every corner with high-quality 4MP video footage that is readily available in the event of any incident. 4MP video footage is only available with Pro Series cameras. Its highly efficient recording option increases retention capacity by recording at a lower resolution during periods of no activity, then automatically recording full resolution when motion is detected.

Streamline business operations with the newest commercial cameras

Business Activity Analytics can be integrated with Pro Series cameras, giving you another powerful business operations tool to use in your day-to-day. Uncover Actionable Business Insights with Alarm.com Business Activity Analytics.

If you want to be notified when there are too many customers in a certain area—like a waiting room—you can draw a ground zone and the Crowd Gathering feature will count how many people are in an area, alerting you when the area is at capacity or over capacity.

Another way to keep your customers happy is with Queue Monitoring. Just draw a ground zone to count how many customers are in a defined area, like the checkout line, and the technology measures their average wait time. You’ll be alerted if the queue length or average wait time exceeds preset limits, so you’ll know when to send in more help to reduce the wait.

A simple business security solution for any operation

When looking to purchase a commercial security system for his business, Tim Smith, CEO of MD Billing, did what most business owners do at first. He went to a large chain retail store and purchased a system to install himself. After a few years, the system started failing and proved to be frustrating and unreliable.

“With the big-box store systems, there's a reason why they're so cheap,” says Smith. “I don't want to have to be the IT department for a camera system when Alarm.com's got a product that fills all my needs, and I don't have to ever worry about it.”

At the end of the day, business owners like Smith need a system they can rely on, but one that doesn’t require them to be IT wizards or software support staff. Take a different approach with Alarm.com for Business. Our business security platform combines video monitoring with other robust offerings like, business access control systems and an energy monitoring system.

You can control the whole system from one app or web dashboard, find the footage you want by searching for important events on your 24/7 video timeline, and access data from across the whole system for valuable business insights.

Alarm.com’s cloud-managed video surveillance combines cloud storage, 24/7 health monitoring, and intelligent analytics to ensure footage is available when business owners need it most—and can be easily found and shared.

To learn more about what commercial video options are right for your business visit https://alarm.com/business-security-camera.

¹, ² *SOURCE: MEDIUM AND LARGE COMMERCIAL BUSINESS SURVEY, 2021, PARKS ASSOCIATES