When we say "In a World of Compromise, Some Don't," we mean it. That is the commitment that we at Consumers Security Group live by. We know there are situations where lives and property are at stake. The last think on your mind should be whether or not your security system will work. CSG continues to set the standard that businesses and government facilities depend on when lives and property are at stake.

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) permits business owners and facility managers the ability to monitor, record, and playback events happening in multiple areas of your facility. Camera surveillance can result in positive effects on your business operations, improve loss prevention and shrinkage control, free you from expensive guard services and lower your liability and insurance payments.

Digital Video Recorders (DVR) have overtaken the traditional VCR for most security applications. Today’s DVR’s record at speeds of 120 frames per second, and have as much as 1000 gigabytes of onboard storage. That means weeks of uninterrupted, maintenance free operation without video tapes. It also gives the user the ability to go to any point in the recorded video archive instantly with just a few keystrokes. The DVR can interface with your office network using the standard TCP-IP protocol, allowing anyone you choose on your network the ability to monitor or playback video. With an internet broadband connection, you can also access the video remotely.You can print snapshots to your local computer printer. You can save or email jpg snaphots and avi (movie) files. You also have the ability to archive video to DAT tape or CD-R. Archived video files are digitally watermarked and admittable as evidence in a court of law.

The presence of CCTV camera’s can provide a immediate deterrence effect against the following activities:.

Vandalism

The camera’s becomes an tireless sentinel recording all events in it field of view.

Burglary

Camera’s give you the ability to view your premises remotely upon notification of an alarm condition by the central station.

Holdup

All major police agencies agree that CCTV recordings are one of the most useful tools for investigating and solving holdup and robbery crimes. Witnesses’s memories and details of the event can be clouded due to the stress of the robbery. However a Camera will never forget a perpetrator’s face and identifying features.

Liability

More and more, businesses need to protect against lawsuits and false insurance claims brought by customers as well as employees.

Employee Productivity

The CCTV system becomes an incontrovertible timeclock. Businesses are lost an estimated 145 billion dollars last year in falsified time cards and lost productivity.

Production

Monitor your production line and make sure its operating properly.

Poor Customer Service

The average customer service incident results in the loss of a minimum of 10 customers.

Fraud

Customers are less likely to commit credit card and merchandise return fraud when there is an obvious video surveillance system in place.

Digital CCTV recordings from CSG are digitally watermarked and admittable as evidence in court. Video can be saved to CDR for archive and evidence purposes.

With digital video and the power of the Internet you can visit all your business locations quickly and easily without ever leaving your desk. Protecting your business from theft or loss sometimes means being in more than one place at a time. You can now economically monitor your entire business from a desktop or laptop computer even from remote locations. Once you have the power of digital video system from CSG, you’ll wonder how you ever managed your business without it!

License Plate Capture

This technology integrates with our DVR (Digital Video Recorder) to capture license plates in day or night conditions, at high speed, and directly against high-beam headlights. These cameras also integrate with Automatic Number Plate Reading (ANPR) software to allow for proactive intelligent operation against an active database. The use of ANPR is being used to combat car theft and monitor the movement of suspected criminals and terrorists. These cameras can be used wherever there are vehicle control points such as toll booths, gates, parkades, bridges, on-ramps and tunnels.

Camera’s are selected based on the client’s requirements. A security camera has the same limitations as the human eye. Lighting, position of the sun, reflections, glare, weather conditions, and focal point will vary the quality of the video picture. The CSG Professional security technicians will work to minimize these factors by selecting the proper equipment for each location, while meeting the end-user’s objectives and budget.

Full Format cameras offer the best possible images over varying lighting conditions. They work in conjunction with auto-iris lens of varying focal length

Black and White Camera’s will have higher resolution and better low light sensitivity than color camera’s.

Color camera’s provide more descriptive information, for instance the perpetrator’s jacket was "red."

Day & Night camera’s provide high resolution color images during daylight hours, and then automatically switch to black and white during low light conditions.

Dome Camera's offer high resolution, low light sensitivity and extended zoom capabilities can satisfy even the most extreme, complex viewing requirements. Domes feature continuous autofocus and either a 144X zoom (18X optical, 8X digital) or an even more powerful 176X zoom (22X optical, 8X digital). Its intelligent zoom automatically adjusts pan and tilt speeds in proportion to zoom position. The dome provides 360° continuous pan rotation and precise manual variable speed control. And its attractive, compact design is low profile at only 8", making it the perfect choice for applications where aesthetics are critical and discreet surveillance is a must. Domes also provide advanced features such as Privacy Zones, that can mask sensitive areas of a scene from view, and Home Position, which automatically returns the dome to a preset or tour after a specified period of inactivity. Mimic Tours allow operations programmed at the keyboard to be memorized and recalled, allowing for unattended operation.

Extreme CCTV

For those demanding requirements where it is necessary to capture video images in low light conditions, camera’s with infrared illumination are available. This new category of camera is designed specifically for the relentless 24/7 digital world When most security cameras sold today are "plug and play" for the optimum conditions of a daytime scene, customers are usually left with a poor or useless picture at night. A demanding 24/7 world would regard that as half a solution. In the world of Extreme CCTV, the these specially designed cameras will give you a total solution.

Incorporating cameras and illuminators, these extreme cameras will create light, capture light and control the light to ensure a high signal / low noise picture under all day and all night conditions

Special Application / Covert Video

Due to advances in camera technology, virtually any item can conceal a hidden camera. These camera’s are concealed in common office objects and are designed to get closeup images of suspicious activity.

Used over cash registers, the digital output from the till is interfaced into the video system.