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Are Energy-saving Security Products Just around the Corner?
With the arrival of energy-saving times, the sense of energy crisis is becoming more and more urgent, which also makes the security and surveillance industry focus more on electricity and energy saving issues.
As the ‘Safe City Project’ in China proceeds, the use of traditional products and energy-saving products are obviously different in their cost and energy consumption. Therefore, it means a lot both to the market and to the society as well.
On November 30th 2009, the first solar and wind energy road surveillance system began to work. This system is mainly composed of two systems: solar and wind energy power system and cctv surveillance system. It can be powered under any weather conditions, saving around 30, 000 yuan of electricity every year.
Then has energy saving become a fashion in security and surveillance industry nowadays?
One specialist used to say, ‘At the moment, the most effective advertising points are, one for diversified function, the other for energy saving. From this point of view, energy saving products are meeting the market requirements and the fashion as well. Energy saving products are easier to install and more environmentally friendly than traditional products. Considered in a long term, solar and wind energy security and surveillance products have lower production cost and smaller labor volume compared with traditional products.
But some other specialists think that although energy saving is a prospect, there are still some problems to solve regarding energy saving. For example, the beginning production cost is big, technology problems cannot be solved completely, the life span of project systems is short, latter stage service is complicated, etc. Especially in areas where electricity resources are rich or electricity fees are cheap, the users won’t be interested in such products.
On the other hand, there are three reasons why wind solar compensation powered cctv systems are not popular: firstly, the cost is high. Compared with the traditional systems, the cost is more than doubled. Prices are always what users are concerned with. Secondly, stability. According to some test results, such power solution has the problem of bad stability and is easily affected by surroundings. While for cctv surveillance systems that related to social security, stability is the No. one concern. Thirdly, the sense of environment. People’s sense of environment protection is still vague. They don’t know much about such technologies. Even for some insiders who know more than others, they are not sure if the technology is mature enough or if it can be used independently and stably without electricity supply. For example, the first wind and solar road cctv surveillance system as mentioned above was functioning unsteadily for weather and technology reasons.
Will these problems stop the security industry’s energy saving process? A specialist thought the problems are being solved step by step and the process will continue. First, with the cost of the energy saving materials reducing, the cost of new power means drop dramatically. Second, the continuous improvement of technology will solve the problem of stability. Different cctv surveillance product solutions will be used according to different working environment to ensure the system’s stability. Last, people’s concept is being changed. With the promotion of the country’s energy saving policy, the government pays more attention to the environment issues. This will promise a bright future for energy saving products and their technology in cctv surveillance industry.
Energy saving has become a global common recognition. It is unavoidable for security industry. One thing for sure is that in the future, energy saving will become a new standard for measuring the technology of security and surveillance products. Facts have proved that the trend is very obvious. In the near future, the requirements of energy saving may appear in the security and surveillance product standards. The cctv surveillance market will to a large extent be energy saving products’.
2010-08-13 17:01 |
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