Body camera vs surveillance camera

A body camera and a surveillance camera both record video. The job is not the same. One sits on the uniform. The other stays on the wall, at the gate or on the perimeter. Ordering only one of the two to cover both roles leaves a hole in the archive.

Palo Security supplies Hytera, Kirisun and Inrico body cameras, and Hikvision, Dahua, Axis, Avigilon, EZVIZ and Bosch surveillance cameras, with a DVR or an NVR. The number of body cameras, the number of site cameras and the archive time are set in the quote.

The body camera

It stays with the person on patrol, on an approach and at the post. It records what that person sees: the corridor they enter, the vehicle that stops, what happens in front of them. When the guard leaves the frame of a wall camera, the body camera still goes with them.

The surveillance camera

It stays on site. Door, reception, corridor, yard, perimeter. The view does not depend on someone being there. The control room sees the compound even when the patrol is elsewhere. The recorder — DVR or NVR — keeps those points every hour.

They do not replace each other

• The surveillance camera covers the site. The body camera covers what the person does outside that view, or on the same site from another angle.
• A bodycam does not see the door when the guard is in the yard. A wall camera does not see the approach in the corner that is not in frame.
• The patrol archive and the site archive are two requests, or one quote with both lines.

What not to mix

MDVR in the vehicle is another recorder: road and cabin. That is another article. Thermal on the perimeter and LPR at the gate solve heat and the number plate, not what the patrol wears on the chest.

What to say in the request

1. How many people on patrol need a body camera.
2. Which doors, corridors and perimeter need a surveillance camera on site.
3. Whether a recorder already exists on site, and how many days of archive you want to keep.

We do not invent the set. The patrol and the compound define the two lines. Tell us the site and the number of people. We prepare the quote.