Lesson: banks should be refitted with rollercoaster cameras
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· 9 years ago
Because rollercoaster cameras get instantly activated when it's the time, and get one shot.
The cameras of the bank have to be recording 24/7, all of them. That takes a lot of space to store the video, so they take the quality down a notch.
And also, cameras usually get destroyed on violent casualites. You don't want to pay thousands of dollars per camera each time it happens.
Plus, better quality, whole lot of more space they need. Which costs more.
Not entirely, I have a couple decent security cameras that were relatively cheap but record pretty good quality video and I have yet to fill up a 2tb hard drive that is also used to backup the computer everything is hooked to granted they don't record 24/7 only motion but during snow or rain they always record.
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· 9 years ago
Yup. But i bet that's not a failure proof storage (that is, special RAID configuration) , plus SAI's, plus the maintenance, plus the monitoring equip.
And i'm sure i'm missing things here.
Also, cheap cameras do not serve for that high security enviroments. They usually have special sensors+night vision, plus another redundance on the storage, plus at least 2 sources of power.
You can't afford a single camera failing because it was cheap.
I don't know they are heavy grade aluminum and I dropped one from 10 feet up a ladder and it was fine, just a slight knick in the metal from hitting concrete, cheap doesn't always mean junk, plus these have a roughly 200 foot night vision range granted yes the computer setup is crappy And not fail-safe it does however have its own backup power and three storage sources(internal hard drive on the computer, external usb hard drive and a network drive) but at the end of the day I'm just protecting a farm not millions in money. They haven't failed yet in over two years.
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· 9 years ago
Yes of course cheap does not mean crappy. All i'm saying is a bank can't afford a minimal failure.
That's also the reason their (internal) security system has been the same since the begining: it's old, but it has been tested for so long it's *almost* impossible to break it.
The best explanation is the storage issue... For example a standard DVD video burned on a computer takes around 700mb is space, a blue ray 1080p video is closer to 4 gb of space... And that's only for 2 hours and is completely edited down. The raw footage easily takes up multiple terabytes before editing... While memory is cheaper now, banks have to save that for months before they can overwrite, so each bank would be investing over $100,000 for each camera... Parks make money off selling those one time shots, which are much smaller (closer to 10mb max) and they can delete right away
The cameras of the bank have to be recording 24/7, all of them. That takes a lot of space to store the video, so they take the quality down a notch.
And also, cameras usually get destroyed on violent casualites. You don't want to pay thousands of dollars per camera each time it happens.
Plus, better quality, whole lot of more space they need. Which costs more.
And i'm sure i'm missing things here.
Also, cheap cameras do not serve for that high security enviroments. They usually have special sensors+night vision, plus another redundance on the storage, plus at least 2 sources of power.
You can't afford a single camera failing because it was cheap.
That's also the reason their (internal) security system has been the same since the begining: it's old, but it has been tested for so long it's *almost* impossible to break it.