Surveillance Equipment Uses

Surveillance equipments are a wide range of equipments used to observe what people are doing , either openly or secretly. Though many people think of surveillance equipment as being in the realm of spying, their primary function is to maintain the security of a place. The most common surveillance equipment which we can see today is the simple closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera. These cameras can be  seen in banks, football stadiums, many stores, shopping malls etc. Binoculars or fingerprinting devices are analog devices which were previously described as surveillance equipments. The simplest form of surveillance equipment is surveillance cameras for their easy affordability and handling.

Types Of Surveillance Equipment
Biometric equipment
Biometric equipment is the more advanced form of surveillance equipment. This equipment looks at specific characteristics of a person to identify them. Fingerprint scanners and retinal scanners are two good examples of these equipments. More advanced scanners can analyze the pace of a person when they are walking or can track their voices as they speak in order to identify them. Although some of these systems, such as fingerprint scanners are open others such as gait analyzers remains hidden.
Aerial surveillance equipment
Another form of advanced surveillance equipment is aerial surveillance equipment which has seen a huge boom in the last few years, as prices have come down and the efficiency has become more advanced. Small objects can be tracked on ground through lasers, cameras and infrared scanners attached to the drones.


Global positioning devices
Global positioning devices are another form of surveillance equipment which is increasingly used as they have become tinier. RFID tags and GPS devices can track the movement of a vehicle or a person when they are secretly attached.
Non-conventional surveillance equipments
As the importance of the Internet has increased along with data mining and snooping, surveillance has also become an important part of it. Data can be captured at various points on the information path through equipments. For example, the computer can be attached to tinier objects through USB port to track every keystroke that is sent to the remote computer and can be retrieved later on. Packets that are sent or received can also be captured through devices attached to the network cable without bothering about the security of the cable.
Binoculars and telescopes do not fall under the category of surveillance equipment as they use older analog technology. They are a low-tech form of equipment that are used to see people from distances and are easily available to the common public.
Surveillance equipments are easily available on the internet. You just need to read through the utility of the equipments available and order it.


source; http://blogs.rediff.com/etrade/2014/01/29/surveillance-equipment-uses/    Dennis Mancino