A Look Into the Future: What Will the Video Surveillance Industry Look Like in 10 Years? Things don’t stand still for long, and that’s certainly true when it comes to the future of video surveillance technology and the industry around it. There have already been so many innovations and improvements over the last 10 years, so what is the next...

Are You Actively Participating In Your Business Security? The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine sought a numeric way to determine safety value. Researchers investigated whether there was a connection between companies that emphasized business safety in their culture, and stock market performance. They went about comparing a group of safe companies that had been commended for business security and...

Is There a Wifi Camera System That Is Truly Wire-Free, Simple To Install, and High Performing Sorting through all the claims and features that lead to confusion With Wifi cameras soaring in popularity, SCW re-committed to one of our core missions: providing the best possible products for our customer’s needs. Though we had our doubts about wire-free, we've always known...

Consumer vs Commercial-Grade Cameras Spot the differences All security cameras are not built the same. How can you spot major differences? Constant sales hype combined with the wide range of technical performance issues makes for a confusing selection process. Columns of numbers, degrees, angles, symbols and unfamiliar abbreviations may look impressive but end up being useless without comparison to other...

The Next Big Thing In Business Security Systems The landscape is changing across the surveillance industry. Fluctuating business models in response to pandemic-mode are partially responsible. Other change is a result of a desire to integrate systems to perform at higher levels while also doing so seamlessly, requiring minimal human involvement. “I want a house like the Jetsons,” a friend...

How Technology Is Changing the Way We Treat Business Security Systems A paradigm shift Take it back to 1989 and the release of Stephen Covey’s book, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” The business/self-help publication became successful to the point of introducing new terminology into our daily language--”paradigm shift” is one such example. A paradigm shift is an event...

7 Ways Small Business Security Systems Pay For Themselves Get paid to install a surveillance system at your place of business. “The state of North Carolina will pay you $5,000.00 to install solar panels on your home.” Those ads and similar appear regularly around the Asheville, NC area, headquarters of SCW. While they sound too good to be true, perhaps...

9 Signs You Need Help With Business Security Systems 1. You’re experiencing vandalism “Business owners pay--directly and indirectly--for vandalism, which consists of the defacing or damaging of property. Some enterprises avoid areas with a perceived crime or vandalism problem, causing a void in goods, services, and jobs among those who live in those areas.” Repair and replacement costs may also...

13 reasons your business needs a security system Protect your business. 1. Liability Reasons   If you want to protect your business and reduce your business’s liability exposure and insurance costs, it certainly makes sense to invest in a security system. Your business can't afford to inflate its liability exposure, and no one wants to be paying higher insurance premiums...

7 Tips to Rock Your Business Security 1. A full tank of Internet Your car is going nowhere without gas in the tank. Nor is surveillance camera video going to be transmitted and received without plenty of Internet bandwidth. It is the fuel that your surveillance cameras gobble up, typically measured in bits (e.g., 100Kb/s, 1Mb/s, 1000Mb/s, etc.). And it...

Consumer Awareness In the Wake of the Verkada Breach Safe to say the more than 24,000 organizations appearing on the company’s client list are squirming. It’s too early to predict the extent of backlash and damage to come out of the recent cyber breach of surveillance provider, Verkada. Safe to say the more than 24,000 organizations appearing on the company’s...

Apology Accepted? Is an electronic “sorry” sufficient repayment to 24,000 customers? What if that apology is from a company with “security” in its name and they have recently been breached? Your live surveillance camera footage has been exposed, your data accessible, and yet nothing has changed in that regard. Are you now feeling less compromised following the sorry? Reassured it...

Here at SCW, we are constantly updating our product list. So to meet consumer demand, we have added many large hard drive DVRs so that cassinos, military facilities, and large apartment and commercial complexes have additional options when setting up a 64 channel DVR. We have added:   5 Terabyte DVRs 6 Terabyte DVRs 7 Terabyte DVRs A larger hard...

Well it is official, this week we are going to have our most anticipated section up! Our SPY security cameras! We have all kinds of simple SPY cameras that will enable residential applications a lot more options to placing cameras in their homes. SPY cameras are very simple cameras to setup. Most of the cameras we will be posting will...

Remember the post we had about a year ago (for our regular readers), where we started to see solutions for PTZ cameras that were powered by solar technology? Well we finally have the parts in our warehouse that will allow anyone that has a unique application to have power where there are no outlets. The setup and protection of the...