Camera change privacy sneak peek into Shanghai surveillance market

There is actually a (I love security) head hidden in the ceiling! A few days ago, employees of a company in Shanghai found that all their daily actions in the office were clearly monitored by the camera. Recently, the author discovered in the unannounced visit to the electronic market of Qijiang Road that the camera has become the “standard” for many company office renovations. The main purpose of the installation is not only as a technology defense facility, but also to monitor the daily work of employees. behavior.

Large field of view, large zoom, powerful camera wall hanging 20 cameras, the customer's figure is presented on the screen of 4 monitors. In the electronic market of Qijiang Road in Hongkou District, there are no less than 20 such “safety monitoring project franchise stores”. The cameras for sale are from two to three hundred yuan to several thousand dollars, and their functions are correspondingly large. The difference.

Into a monitoring equipment store, the owner of the Cantonese accent listened to reporters to purchase equipment, and introduced the functions of his own camera. "There are three kinds of cameras: gun shape, hemispherical shape, and spherical shape. The gun-shaped camera has a fixed angle and is suitable for outdoor waterproofing; the hemispherical camera can rotate at a certain angle; the spherical camera has the largest field of view and can rotate 360 ​​degrees."

In addition to the large field of vision, the second function is a large zoom, up to 22 times - the camera focal length up to 100 meters, the most recent 4 meters, unit price nearly thousand dollars. Cameras of 30 meters and 50 meters with two focal lengths are priced at less than 200 yuan, which is enough for indoor surveillance.

The third function is remote control, like manipulating video games on a keyboard. The number keys 1-9 switch the position, push and pull the joystick to achieve zoom, you can use U disk to copy the video information.

In addition to the conventional camera, there is a row of tiny cameras in the glass cabinet beside the wall. The reporter only after careful examination found that a cylindrical camera with only the thickness of the thumb, length less than 5 cm, pin flash reflection of the tip of the lens, is said to use "car camera." There is also a miniature camera with a length and width of less than 5 cm, which is not as large as the palm of the hand.

"What's the use of these cameras?" The boss said: "This is someone else's purchase for special use, 300 yuan a, you can also mix the ordinary camera and micro camera together."

Dark line, multi-angle, companies prefer "special installation"

In another monitoring equipment store, salesman Xiaoyi told reporters that the current monitoring project is mainly for large and medium-sized company users. The reporter asked if he could buy a camera for home use. She said that the purchase is OK, but the company is not responsible for the installation at home. "Our rule is that a complete set of projects with more than 10 cameras will be installed on site."

The dealers are happy to "set" the door installation, the biggest driving force is to "make money": a simple monitoring system includes 4 to 8 cameras, an embedded hard disk recorder, a display and cable, a total price of about 3,000 yuan The installation fee accounts for at least one-third of the total, and the maximum amount of floats.

Lao Jin, who has 10 years of experience in installing monitoring equipment, said: “Installation is actually very simple, just like plugging computers into the Internet.” But he also admitted that if there are many special requirements, labor costs will be correspondingly higher. “Such as, for example, do you want to remove ceiling ceilings, hide your camera? Do you want to monitor multiple cameras and place multiple cameras in a concealed position? Do not use a percussion drill to drill holes in the wall and use cables to hold all the images. Summarized to your office?"

When the author claimed that his company was located near Dapu Bridge, Lao Jin handed in a business card: “Is it in the Square of Jin Yulan? There, I was familiar with the installation of the door.” After that, he quietly pulled the reporter's clothes. Horn, whispered: "Brother, you found me right. I promise, as long as you want what kind of effect, I can help you achieve."

Light security, heavy surveillance, camera turned into a "privacy sniffer"

From the technical defense facilities to the monitoring of employees, the function of the camera is gradually evolving into a "private sniffer." In a monitoring equipment store, the reporter encountered a man who came to negotiate the installation of equipment. He asked the boss that in addition to the normal camera used for anti-theft functions, several “hidden” cameras should be installed inside the company.

"Today's employees, if you don't look at it, you will work for you all day, and our company is doing OEM work for foreigners. If you don't pay attention, someone steals the samples and takes them home. In fact, the theft is secondary. The main thing is to monitor these employees who are not working well." The man explained while looking at the quotation. The boss next to him feared that the customer had run away and he was also saying, "Yes, that is, you can rest assured that buying us will definitely satisfy you."

After selecting 15 cameras and related equipment, the man paid a 5,000 yuan deposit. Looking at him out of the door, the reporter asked the boss: “If someone like him to install cameras to monitor employees, do you all install it?” The boss smiled and said: “This is always to meet the needs of customers, and people are Boss, isn't it normal to watch you?"

He also explained: "Furthermore, now the company's decoration is to install the camera, a lot of companies have installed cameras in us to monitor the staff. Rest assured, we will certainly not find the location of the installation, and equipment maintenance are It's what we do."