Home monitoring plan

With the strong support of national policies, projects such as safe cities and safe communities have been deeply promoted throughout the country, and the concept of national security has been basically formed. This has laid a solid mass foundation for the rapid expansion of the home security market. The demand for home monitoring in the market is mainly network monitoring, which can achieve remote monitoring. In addition to having a certain mass base, the emergence of 3G networks has also provided certain technical support for the development of the security home market.

1、 Discussion on the Functionality of Home Monitoring

What functions should home security have, what price point are devices with these functions, and what should be noted when purchasing home security equipment?

（1） 720P has become a standard configuration for household monitoring

Throughout the entire civilian security field, the resolution of home monitoring devices generally reaches 1280 * 720, which is 720P image quality. This is not only to allow users to pay more attention to the details of loving their homes, but also to enable users to communicate and share information with their families through this product. In order to cater to consumer psychology, merchants have equipped their home products with higher lens resolution. Therefore, the image quality of home monitoring devices is one of their purchasing standards.

（2） Strong practicality of mobile detection function

After considering the image quality, household monitoring devices need to consider what functions they need. For household users, there are mostly elderly and children in the general family, because the mobile detection function is extremely practical. This function not only meets the needs of families encountering illegal intruders, but also enables devices to intelligently recognize moving objects and report to their owners; It can also provide alerts when children are moving or elderly people fall, allowing users to constantly understand the situation at home and ensuring timely understanding of family situations.

The mobile detection function is still a good helper for lazy fathers and lazy mothers. Generally, when children are young, parents are worried that their children may fall to the ground if they move around. However, this function can remind parents in a timely manner, without the need for them to stay by their children's side at all times. Even if you fall asleep, you can detect your child's situation in a timely manner, allowing parents to easily have good sleep.

（3） Night vision function helps parents take care of their children

For families where children have just slept in separate beds with their parents, parents always worry about their children falling off or not resting well, but they don't always go to see their children and worry about affecting their rest. Night vision function can help users eliminate worries. You only need to open the mobile app to view your child's every move, and no longer have to worry about disturbing their rest. The design of this feature is indeed very thoughtful and can help parents solve many problems.

（4） Pan tilt allows you to pay more attention to a wider range

At present, the appearance of civil security equipment on the market can be divided into two "factions", namely the relatively traditional appearance and the very fashionable appearance. Home security devices that retain their traditional appearance generally support pan tilt operation, in order to allow users to observe their loved ones from multiple angles; And another type of enterprise testing sacrifices product functionality to advocate for its fashionable appearance, attracting users with its beautiful appearance, making the product more like a home decoration.

Regardless of the user's considerations, home monitoring products should be equipped with clarity, motion detection, night vision functions, etc. The appearance of the device also depends on whether the user pays attention to appearance or functionality. In short, when purchasing home monitoring devices, more attention should be paid to their performance and whether they can meet their own usage needs. They should not blindly pursue low prices and high-end, but should be purchased based on their own usage requirements, Only in this way can we purchase the products we truly need.

2、 Security analysis of household monitoring storage types

Let's talk about storage. Actually, the functions of home monitoring devices are not much different at present, and they can generally meet the needs of home users. Therefore, the selection of functions is often not a big problem.

（1） Classification of home surveillance camera storage

As is well known, the earliest security industry did not distinguish between civilian and industrial applications so clearly. If home users had monitoring needs, they only purchased some low-end devices for simple control, such as connecting with analog monitoring devices through hard disk recorders. Nowadays, the application of home monitoring devices is very simple, achieving an integrated platform for monitoring and storage, and the volume is greatly reduced, making it convenient for users to place them in any corner of the home.

The current storage methods for home surveillance cameras are mainly divided into two types, namely local storage and network storage (cloud storage). In response to the needs of the vast number of users, home monitoring devices have achieved remote monitoring. Through APP software deployed on mobile devices, users can view everything about their loved home as long as there is a network, achieving no geographical or time restrictions.

For general household users, these two storage methods may not have a significant impact on your application, but for users who require high storage capacity, cloud storage based home monitoring devices should be used.

（2） Monitoring the portability of storage

When it comes to portability, regardless of whether the home monitoring device uses local storage or network storage, as long as there is a network, users can view their loved homes. Through the alarm function of the home monitoring device, once a stranger enters, users can also receive a warning message in time and watch everything happening at home by turning on the camera. Perhaps from this perspective, the portability performance of the two is not obvious.

But portability is not only reflected in one aspect, but also in a comprehensive consideration of the performance of monitoring devices. However, the current TF card supported by home monitoring devices is only 32G, which may not meet the long-term recording needs of users for real-time recording of loving their homes. However, network storage does not have size requirements for space. Massive space can be stored at will, and users can choose to play or demand video recordings anywhere, making it more convenient to apply.

Previously, the author also tested home monitoring devices and recorded for 11 minutes, producing approximately 71MB of video files. Each minute produced approximately 6.5MB of video, which would take up approximately 9GB of space, indicating that localized storage is not suitable for long-term video recording.

Some localized storage monitoring devices adopt image storage in order to reduce the occupation of space by video data. Whether it is the user actively taking screenshots or the device's own alarm screenshots, they are all presented in the form of images. Although they can save a lot of space, they also lose the ability to capture animation image information and miss out on too much important information.

（3） Security of Home Monitoring Storage

For home users, home monitoring information involves too much personal privacy, so the security of information becomes very important. What are the impacts of local storage and network storage on security, and which method is more secure?

Most people may think that storing video information in cloud storage is not secure enough, after all, it is not as "real" as the storage card around you. However, have you considered that once a hacker invades your monitoring device, the locally stored video information will be displayed in front of the hacker at a glance, and of course, there is no privacy issue.

Previously, CCTV had already exposed loopholes in monitoring equipment, allowing criminals to easily enter the home's monitoring network. Not only individual users, but also some * and shops have been "hacked". Hackers can not only view your information, but also manipulate the monitoring screen. The screen that users see may not be the real screen at home, but may only be a "false impression" created by hackers for users.

Cloud storage, on the other hand, stores video information on dedicated servers. Both users and others require certain permissions to access it, and the stored data is encrypted. Even if it is invaded by criminals, they cannot see your video information, which is very helpful for protecting user privacy and security.

For these two storage methods of home monitoring devices, it cannot be simply said which is better or worse. However, from the development trend of home monitoring storage, more monitoring devices will apply cloud storage in the future, and technologies such as big data, cloud storage, and intelligent analysis will definitely be the main trend of future monitoring device development.