What is virtual guarding and how does it work?
Keeping your Business, Complex or Home safe under strict budgetary constraints is a pressing concern for many businesses, home owners today. Hiring live security guards is expensive, but can you put a price on creating a secure working and living environment? Virtual guarding can provide top-tier physical security without requiring 24/7 on-site security guards.
Virtual guarding, sometimes called remote video guarding or remote guarding, uses technology to replace some or all of the security guard needs. Instead of live security patrols on site, you can use a combination of security cameras, video surveillance software, and remote video monitoring to provide equal, or even better, security coverage of your premises.Virtual guarding relies on video surveillance and has several main benefits over traditional live security guards. First, security guards are an expensive and difficult-to-scale security solution. A single security guard on duty 24/7 represents five full-time salaries. In addition to paying these employees, their salaries represent long-term commitments that reduce the flexibility of your budget.By accessing live video feeds of security cameras from anywhere, TECHsecurity's video analytics platform can offer remote virtual guarding capabilities.
The disadvantages of security guards:A human can only pay attention to one thing at a time, so they still need to scan from one CCTV security feed to the next in the security office.Long periods of downtime between incidents can lead to time theft.In the ultimate form of time theft, overnight security guards can fall asleep on the job.Live security guards are expensive and their salaries represent long-term budgetary commitments.Competitive labor markets mean lower-quality candidates might be hired, which can lead to guards being a new internal theft liability.It is hard to scale live security guards to hundreds or thousands of locations without a problems