Benefits of Remote Monitoring
Benefits of Remote Monitoring
1. 24/7 Protection for Your Business and saving costs
One of the most popular aspects of a surveillance system for your business is having live agents monitor your business locations 24/7. Advanced systems including those offered by Sigma Surveillance allow you to simply log into the app from anywhere to quickly view live and recorded video of your business. You can request footage for specific timeframes and incidents when and where needed, whether you’re across town or across the country, after hours or on vacation. Keeping an eye on your business has never been easier.
Hiring conventional guards for your business locations is the old way of security. Their two eyes and ears can only see and hear what's in their vicinity. Remote surveillance allows you to have eyes everywhere at all times, and with AI these eyes don't blink. You also have the liability risk in case guards get injured on site. It's also always more costly to have a person on site 24/7 and during holidays vs hiring a remote surveillance company.
2. Using Remote Surveillance Analysis to Boost Productivity
Studies have looked at the impact of video monitoring on employee behavior, the results were a little surprising. Employee theft predictably went down. The unexpected thing, however, was that productivity and sales actually went up even more than theft went down.
This obviously doesn’t apply to every situation. If employees feel like the video monitoring is going to lead to their every action being questioned and picked apart, they’ll start following every last protocol and process that’s assigned to them.
3. Video and Remote Surveillance Protects You from Liability
Another huge benefit when looking at video surveillance is the protection it offers you and your employees in the case of liability. Having a video record to back you up can be invaluable.
Liability can affect a small business in any number of ways. Depending on what industry you’re in, you might also need to have records handy for compliance issues. The key is to make it clear to employees that the video cameras are there for their protection and that, no matter what happens, the recording will have their back if a situation gets out of hand.
Again, a running theme that you’ll notice is that the benefit of a video system isn’t simply that you have tapes when something goes wrong; it’s that the presence of cameras changes behaviors and makes these kinds of incidents less likely to occur.
4. Lessens the Chance of False Alarms
Another advantage of a remote surveillance system and monitoring is that it can provide visual confirmation to us in regards to any activation or alert. This greatly reduces the risks of false alarms and aids in the fastest and most appropriate response or action being taken. We use sirens and audio alerts as a deterrent in many instances and increases the odds of a culprit being captured in the case of criminal activity.
5. Reduced Business Insurance Premiums
In some instances, a remote surveillance system can actually lower your insurance premiums, although this varies by the insurance provider. You will need to check with your insurance company on what is available as well as the requirements.