What is Cam masking?
Privacy Masking is a feature on some security cameras that allows you to blur or completely block certain areas seen on the cctv monitor within the field of view of the camera. You may need to do this in order to protect sensitive material from being shown but not at the expense of losing valuable surveillance footage.
What is video masking in DVR?
A video mask is used to exclude sensitive parts from your camera’s vision. This can be helpful in preventing false alerts from the motion sensor (eg. trees blowing in the wind or cars driving in the street).
What does privacy mask mean?
Privacy masking is a feature found in many IP cameras which is used to protect personal privacy by concealing parts of the image from view with a masked area. This mask will continue to cover sensitive areas of the image whenever users view the camera.
Can Lorex cameras be hacked?
On Sept 25th, 2017, Dahua (Lorex), a major competitor of SCW, had all of their camera systems hacked and put into the Mirai botnet and customers lost their video feeds. It is estimated that over 1 Million Dahua / Lorex cameras have been affected by the Bashlight malware.
How do you prevent false alarms with security cameras?
How to avoid false alarms in security cameras?
- Know your codes.
- Keep animals out of the protected system or use volumetric sensors that do not activate with light bodies.
- Calibrate volumetric detectors well so that they do not give false positives.
- Secure the access points.
What does video blind mean?
Video loss alarm – If there’s a loss of video and this is on, you will be notified. Video blind – In cases where the camera has been sprayed with paint or covered, you will get the notification.
Is Lorex camera secure?
Lorex cameras are secure because all of the footage is stored locally on a hard drive rather than in cloud storage. As long as you change your administrator password periodically and create long, complicated, and unique passwords every time, your system will be secure.
Can a spider set off a motion detector?
Insects and spider webs occasionally get in front of motion detectors, but not too many spiders have stop watches and follow a schedule to the minute, so I knew they were out. Mice or rats generally aren’t big enough to trigger a false motion, and she had no cats or dogs in her shop.