Improving your property is something that offers many families a more tailored living experience and a home purposefully designed to meet your needs. And there’s something special about being able to turn your property into the perfect home over time to meet your changing needs.
But when you increase your property size, you can also increase the vulnerabilities. This is during and after the build work, once renovations are complete.
If you have an existing security setup for your home or you’re looking at introducing one to protect your home, as you scale, there are a few things you need to be aware of so you can improve your security camera system for the best protection.
Plan Camera Coverage Before Expansion
This applies to those already with a system in place. If you’re starting from scratch, you can work with your home’s final footprint to implement full coverage.
But if you’re increasing the coverage of an existing system, you need to plan coverage carefully.
Check what cameras you have, where, and what they’re covering. Not what you assume is covered. Then find the gaps. Because it’s the gaps that are the most important thing here.
As your property grows, you need to reduce blind spots and areas of low or poor coverage so no one can access your home without being captured. The best way to do this is to stand in front of each camera and check its full scope. See what movements it captures, where, and when coverage drops. This means you can reconfigure placement and in new cameras where they’ll be most beneficial.
Upgrade Recording Capacity
It’s not just about adding more cameras to cover increased square footage. It’s about increasing functionality here, too. This means you need to upgrade your cameras for improved footage quality and storage,e too.
As you scale, your system has more data to capture and store, and if your processing or storage can’t handle what the cameras are capturing, you’re going to lose retention time or quality. And when you need to go back and check footage, you might find you don’t have what you need, as the system couldn’t handle it and things got overwritten sooner than you expected, or the quality is lower than you need.
When you’re covering more property, you need a system that can handle increased activity. A 16 channel NVR 5MP cameras setup gives you the capacity to grow, but you need to ensure the system grows with the cameras, too.
Identify Risk Areas
Every home is going to have risk areas. That’s a given. But it’s how you treat these risk areas that counts.
Expanding your property might open you up to risks that you didn’t have before. Let’s say you’re adding an extension to your home; this could create a void around the back of the property that is now easy to hide in, or it could be that your landscaping introduces trees or bushes that give burglars easy spaces to hide.
As you complete renovations, pinpoint risk areas so you can improve coverage here. Whether you need to add more cameras to one spot to cover the area entirely or you need to combine cameras with other security measures like biometrics for doors or automatically locking gates as you enter and leave, know what you need and what will offer the most protection alongside your camera setup.
