Video surveillance systems have been a critical element in the security landscape for decades, helping to monitor and protect retail, commercial, residential, and public property. Today, as the concern for enhanced security grows and the construction community embraces the intelligent building concept; video surveillance – and especially IP video – plays an increasingly crucial role in providing a safe and productive environment. “It is no secret that police departments and governments have been monitoring city streets for years, with security cameras proving invaluable in crime investigation and prevention. However, as a result of research conducted by Kaspersky Lab researcher Vasilios Hioureas and his fellow researcher Thomas Kinsey from Exigent Systems Inc., “wireless systems could also be used in a harmful way”, the security firm said. Wireless surveillance systems (still a very small percentage of the total market) are starting to be connected via a mesh network, a type of network in which nodes are connected […]