For consumers, pushing data about your home onto the cloud is not good especially most of the IoT & cloud for their data storage are not well protected. If use smart phone especially Android, risk of the phone being hacked is high.
I have my security cameras on. In 3 months all the good features disappeared. I canāt receive anything on my phone when the incidents happen. Ebay had a 30 days return. LOL
The problem is:
1- Too slow to dig into the āalleged timeā where the incident happens.
2- Incidents happen to be low crime incidents to report. I wish to catch them in the act to get a beating. LOL
4 months ago, I was awaken by my 2 dogs. I opened the front door, and a guy was peeing on the corner of the garage of the next home but standing on my garden, by the seconds it took me to say āwhat?ā and open the front door, he was about 12 yards from me, he turned around and grabbed a small bike out of the bunch I was keeping for the metal collector guy. He climbed it and went away. As I go to bed half naked, by the minute I spent putting a shirt on and grabbing the car keys, and saying to the neighbor coming from work that I was pursuing a guy, for that stupid reason, the guy had disappeared among a bunch of Vietnamese kids having a party 8 homes away. The bike was abandoned right in front of that house.
Checking the video, I couldnāt identify the guy even if he was in front of me. Worthless piece of security camera. Good for the day, worthless overnight.
Oh, SOBs, they have stolen since Iāve been here, from my front lawn or right from a place for my garden tools I have under my kitchen window:
Yes, security cameras/system is only as good as camera resolution to identify culprits. But, if placed appropriately could act as a deterrent to some āon the fenceā criminals. Thatās the thing, you donāt hear or experience anything with them, so must be workingā¦