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Design ConsiderationsCertain areas require carefully designed lighting. These areas include parking lots, exterior entrances and exits, and open yards and storage areas. While security lighting is a detection tool, it is also crucial for other detection systems such as CCTV. Lighting intended specifically to enhance CCTV coverage must be designed for that purpose. It is less expensive to design the lighting to the requirements needed for CCTV than to try to compensate for inadequate lighting by purchasing expensive cameras and lenses. Factors that must be considered when designing lighting specifically for CCTV are:
Objects and areas that are the most likely targets of intruders or attackers need to have appropriate lighting. Likewise, potential intrusion points such as gates, doors, windows, venting louvers, and delivery hatches should be considered for special lighting that will serve your purpose, not the intruder’s. Particularly in metropolitan areas, you need to be concerned about the direction and intensity of your lighting. Your lighting should not be creating problems for your neighbors. Many areas are adopting “light pollution” ordinances. |
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