Hiawatha’s Video Surveillance See Products at bottom of page
100 Executive Plaza
Junction US 250 South and 33 East
Elkins, WV 26241
Ask for Bob Wood
Office 304 636-4836,
Elkins Residence 304 636-6652
Charleston Residence 304 984-9663 Cell 304 881-3824 bobinwv@verizon.net
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JUST THINK ABOUT IT!
You need a Video Surveillance System!
Call our Statewide Salesman (Bob Wood 304 881 3824) for a Special System Price
This is not that difficult task but you have to know few very important things before you start.
With our systems you will get a Plug and Play System that will include a DVR, Cables,
Cameras and a Power supply. The most difficult thing about the installation is running
the cables from the location you want your DVR to be located to the place you want your
cameras. Once the cables are in place, it is just a matter of mounting the cameras, usually
with 4 screws and pointing them where you want to see and plugging up the power wires
to the camera and twisting on the BNC video cable to the cameras. On the DVR end you
twist on the BNC cables and plug in the power cables to the power supply and install a
cable from the DVR to a TV or if you are using a computer monitor then plug it into the
DVR and plug the DVR and Power Supply in to the 110V power.
That’s how easy it is. So let’s start with cameras.
You have to decide on how many you need now, and how many you might need in the future.
If you think you will be fine with just three for now, but maybe later you will add few more.
Remember to get DVR that will let you expand your system in the future. We offer 4 channel, 8, 9 and
16 channel DVRs and the 16 channel DVR can be connected together to have 64
cameras all controlled by one remote. 4 cameras may be enough for small store or
office or home, but for everything else you will need more than that. Let’s take a
convenient store as an example. You will need one camera facing cash register, one
at the entrance door, and this leaves you just 2 cameras left for the rest of the store.
Probably this won’t be enough. So always count the cameras before you decide on a DVR.
Good practice is to leave always some empty channels on your DVR.
You usually will need more cameras within a short time after installing a system.
Keep this in mind when designing your system. When you know how many cameras
you will need, now it’s time to decide on kind and performance of each one. So we have
outdoor/indoor, day & night-vision, hidden spy. Our night-vision cameras will see in
darkness from 50 feet up to 250 feet depending on the camera selected and the price
you want to pay. Deciding if you need outdoor or indoor is easy. Remember only that
with severe indoor conditions it may be better to use weatherproof camera (dust, moisture,
low or very high temperature). If you have night lights around your property, you can
use weather proof night vision cameras and you will see almost like day time..
If you need more light for the camera to see, then you can instsall a IR iluminator to
turn night into day just for the camera. (See IR iluminator near bottom of page)
Infra red are usually used in completely dark spots. This is where you need to select the
right camera to see what you need to see in darkness. Remember also, that LED’s
on infra red cameras light up at night time. You can easily see camera. It’s not as bright
as flashlight, but you can see dark red light of led’s when you look at the camera.
If you don’t want your cameras to be easily seen, use a small night-vision camera outside
hidden behind the gutter down pipe. But if you own for example car dealership, or you
want bad guys to know that you have surveillance, this is when you put a
night-vision cameras in outdoor enclosures. This makes then easier for anyone thinking
about breaking into your home or business to see that you have a surveillance system.
The enclosures look like the ones you see on top of a Wal-mart store. ( see enclosure below)
They will think twice before entering property. The better cameras offer auto iris, back light
compensation, auto gain control, white balance are just some of the features you
can find in today’s better cameras. Cameras can have veri-focal lens that can
be adjusted to zoom in on things far away so you can easily see whatever you
need to see. ( see Chart Below)
Every security professional will tell you, that it’s always better to go
with hard wired cameras than wireless. And it’s not only about the cost. Wireless
systems are much less dependable. They are subject to interference from florescent
lights and other things. On the top of that anybody can buy RF scanner and simply
tap into your surveillance system. And you don’t want that to happen.
Each camera needs power supply unless you using multi-channel power distributing box.
You can make your life easy by using plug & play cables. They is good for short runs
(up to 200ft). If you need longer runs, use coaxial RG59 or RG6 cable and low voltage
cable for power. This is known as Siamese Cable with a coax and power wires all
in the same cable. In this case you will need to put the ends on power cable and coax.
It may be a little more expensive, but is necessary for longer runs or if cable needs to be
underground. Manufacturers use usually a few values to describe camera. The most
important are: resolution (380 TV lines is a standard, ultra high starts from 480 TVL)
We use 520 TVL as a standard for most all our systems. 420, 480, 520 and 600 are available.
LUX rating, amount of light needed for camera to work properly. 1 LUX equals light
produced by one candle. Today’s cameras are rated usually below 1 LUX. 0.01 LUX
means basically Day & Night camera, Infrared Cameras need no light at all since they are
produce infrared beam, so they rated 0.0 LUX. Lens. Usually surveillance cameras use
wide lenses 2.5mm and up. Very popular 3.6mm lens would give you about 70 degrees
field of view (FOV) horizontally and 57 degrees vertically. (The human eye is near the same
view as a 3.6 lens. Just close one eye and that is about the view of a 3.6 lens)
6mm lens would give you about 48 degrees FOV horizontally and 37 degrees FOV vertically
(for 1/3” CCD sensor). More mm means smaller FOV. Telephoto lenses are 20mm and up
like our HSC 268 25mm Lens. CCD sensor size (usually 1/3”). Simply 1/3” CCD sensor
see more with same lens than ¼” CCD sensor. There are few other values like backlight
compensation, auto iris, auto white balance etc. There is many cameras on the market.
Even if technical specs are same, you can see the difference comparing them side by side.
We make sure all our cameras are the highest quality. We test all cameras before we offer them for
sale to our customers. Now let’s focus on DVR unit. Today nobody uses VCR’s anymore.
All modern CCTV systems are based on DVR. DVR is a all in one video recording device,
multi-channel multiplexer and web server. It records on a Special type hard drive built
for Video surveillance systems. We do not use a hard drive that you would in a computer.
It is not fast enough to record, Playback and have up to 10 people watching video over the
internet all at the same time. It continues to record all the time even while you are viewing
past video. All our DVR units have following features: multi channel capability (can
support 4,8 and 16 cameras) triplex function (record, playback and remote access,
all can be done at the same time) recycle function (it overwrites oldest data with the
newest keeping always last few weeks of video) If you use motion activated recording
(it records only when motion is detected and only from camera(s) that are detecting
motion at that time) recording on schedule (weekly schedule of recording for each
camera can be set) Normal Recording- All Cameras 24/7 remote playback, viewer and
control (DVR can be control and live picture can bee seen over the internet) video
backup (if you need to save the video that you want) All except the LOW COST 4
channel have a DVD writer for video you wish to save. The 4 Channel you can use a 8 GB
USB memory stick. (available local for around $20.00) or if the DVR is connected
through the internet you can watch it and save it on your computer and then use a CD
or DVR to burn a copy. Most important values used by manufacturers: The number
of channels (maximum number of cameras that can be plugged in to the DVR) Maximum
FPS (frames per second) DVR can record. It is total number for all channels. It can be
different for recording and for display. Let’s say 4 CH DVR 120 FPS recording/display.
This means 4 camera DVR can display and record with rate of 120 FPS. If you divide
120FPS by 4 cameras you will get 30FPS. So each camera can display 30FPS
and can record 30FPS (30FPS is also known as “Real Time”). There is no reason to
record video with higher FPS rate on all cameras. It also saves you a lot of hard
drive space. Remember, real time recording consumes a lot of hard drive
space. It’s not practical. So if you let’s say getting 16CH DVR and you will actually
use all 16CH, 120FPS will be enough in most cases.
Note: all DVRs we sell are capable of recording 30 FPS for each channel.
REAL TIME VIDEO. The are adjustable to whatever you wish to record.
Standalone DVR’s come with one hard drive built in, but you can add an
extra one or increase the size. They are very dependable and have all the
basic features to run your surveillance system. Our Systems all have one Hard Drive.
The 4 Channel is only available with one 500 GB Hard Drive.
The 8, 9 Channel and the 16 Channel both come with one 500 GB Hard Drive
but can be upgraded to a larger hadr drive if you wish.
All Hard Drives are Special Surveillance hard drives. We install them and test
before delivering any DVR. All Cameras, Cables and Power Supplies are also
tested in our shop before delivery to our customers.
Remember, basic CCTV system includes:
Cameras
DVR unit
Cables (one for each camera when using Plug & Play
Cables or RG59 and low voltage power cable (or Siamese)when you have really
long runs over 200 ft.
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HSC 823 3.6 Wide View lens -Night Vision 60 Ft.
IMX-500 $929.00
18 Channel Rack Mount 
