Video loss is regarded as a potential alarm event, and is considered to occur any time that the DVR doesn’t receive an active video signal on any of its inputs.
The default behavior of the DVR, when a channel has no incoming video signal, is simply to display “Video Loss” in white text on a black background over the associated channel. If you’re not using all the inputs on your DVR, then some channels will be in “permanent” Video Loss state. Just be sure that you don’t enable a video loss action for these channels.
There are three possible options you can let your DVR do or alert you when a video loss event occurs. It’s set in the same way as the action for any other event. The types of action available are:
The DVR uses its internal buzzer to emit an alarm tone. It sounds like an old computer indicating an error, or a large truck backing up.
The DVR sends an auto-email alert when the event type you’ve selected occurs. Selecting Email Settings brings you to the same email configuration screen accessible from the Network menu
The DVR triggers one or more external alarms connected to it.
Effrosafe comes here and introduces the 4th type of video loss alert in the form of a phone call followed by an SMS containing the details and short description of the video loss alert triggered by your DVR. This is termed to be world’s 1st CCTV alert service introduced by Effrosafe. This is carried out by Effrosafe with no extra gadget/hardware that may have to be linked to your DVR.
Motion alert will be given by Effrosafe in the form of a phone call followed by an SMS when there is a motion detection carried out by your DVR. When motion detection recording is enabled in your DVR, of course, it does capture every motion and sends it to the memory. There might be a situation that for a particular channel a special alert like what Effrosafe does for every motion would help the user prevent serious consequences.
In a place where you don’t anticipate motion during a particular time interval, a motion captured by your DVR’s memory perhaps won’t be that helpful at the time of retrieval and it would have been ‘too late’. Had you been alerted by Effrosafe the ‘next second’ the motion is detected, you could take the appropriate action reducing or totally preventing the eventual damage. Your proximity to or being at a distant location from the motion detection area should not hinder you in taking the subsequent action from wherever you are. Thanks to Effrosafe.
Do you know it really that your DVR’s memory/Hard disk is functioning without a ‘cease’? Or do you know when did your Hard disk get into trouble and stopped recording? You discover the same some days or weeks later only to find out nothing recorded in the memory. It is your right to be alerted the next moment the hard disk stopped recording or got into trouble. Because the entire investments you make on CCTV are straightly linked to the memory.
It is only the memory back up within the CCTV installations that makes the entire investments sensible. Hence an alert triggered against every trouble encountered by the Hard disk makes it sensible too. Effrosafe does exactly the same in a most innovative way. An alert from Effrosafe for every hard disk trouble could help prevent most important moments/incidents from being ‘uncaptured’.
We buy CCTV most of the time for remote/internet view and it is made possible through network connection. Live view and an underlying memory back up are what make CCTV installation a deterrent one for unruly behavior, anti-social elements, burglary theft, etc. In a user’s point of view, remote/internet view makes it more powerful that he can do the surveillance from anywhere in the world. Chances are that somebody disconnects network and does something against user himself. Even that momentary ‘pause’ in a network connection can be intimated to the user as alert.
Effrosafe exactly captures the network disconnection and notifies it to the user in the form of an alert. Hence this alert is sent to the user wherever he is, he can identify if that disconnection is a natural one or ‘man-made’. Effrosafe constantly keeps sending network disconnection alerts to the user and by this way Effrosafe not only acts as CCTV alert service but also total network alert service.
If there is a service that captures images and stores them in an alternative/remote location, it could be a boon for the user. Whatever images captured by the user’s DVR during motion detection or video loss can be safely stored in Effrosafe’s server. Making the user little more cheerful, Effrosafe offers unlimited space for the same with no additional cost or hidden conditions.
The cloud back up offered by Effrosafe can be accessed from anywhere in the world and can even be downloaded as a local copy. Since image capture is instantaneous and storing at a different location is done on its own by Effrosafe, the user can be worry-free and roam anywhere leaving the rest to Effrosafe. Not only does Effrosafe capture and store images at a different location but also an alert is sent to the user by Effrosafe on every capture.
Like any other systems, DVRs and CCTV systems are also prone for third party hacking and intrusion both on the site and from a remote location. Effrosafe sends alert to the user if somebody makes an attempt to tamper with CCTV installations either on the site or from a remote location. People thus making an attempt may even clear the backed up memory from a remote location and this has to be dealt with seriously.
Effrosafe stands tall giving users alert on every security threat, thus making user’s CCTV installations entirely safe and secure. Of course, CCTV makes and keeps things safe but Effrosafe keeps CCTV safe and secure. What an antivirus is to a computer system, Effrosafe is to DVR and its allied CCTV systems.
You don’t receive a call from Effrosafe for days and months? Your DVR and CCTV systems working perfectly or nobody disturbed them? Even that can be sent to the user as an alert by Effrosafe. The user may define the periodicity of the health check alert. It can be hours, days and even months. The user can be doubly sure after receiving an health check alert from Effrosafe that all the CCTV systems are working properly and this he can ensure from anywhere in the world.
At the end of the month or a year, the user may wish to generate a report stating how many times he received a call/SMS from Effrosafe. Category-wise report also can be generated for Video loss, Motion alert, Hard disk trouble, Network status alert and Security status.