How to Find Creative Places to Put a Hidden Security Camera

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Home security cameras increase in popularity every year. As crime increases, people feel strongly lead to increase security in their homes for the sake of their families and personal property. Many people who use security cameras choose to use a hidden camera. Often, home owners need to find creative places to put their hidden cameras. Follow these guidelines when trying to find the perfect spot for a hidden camera.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Step1
Determine where you will need your hidden camera.
Step2
Create a pin hole in a wall, hide the camera in a stuffed animal, or put a small hole in a picture and mount the camera behind the picture, if you will be using the hidden camera in a child's bedroom.
Step3
Put the camera in a small hole made in a mural, a toy that is on a high shelf and never used, or under a table a child uses for a tea party, if you are going to put the hidden camera in a play room.
Step4
Hide the camera in a plant, in a small hole in the wall, or a small hole in trim along the ceiling, if you are going to put the hidden camera in the kitchen.
Step5
Hide the camera alongside the television, in a plant, or in a couch cushion or pillow if you are going to put the hidden camera in the living room.
Step6
Put the hidden camera alongside an item on a high shelf such as a tool box if you are going to put the camera in the garage. You can also hide a camera in the ceiling since the ceilings of most garages are fairly tall.

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lanz637 said

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on 6/8/2008 I found it useful to take a more clinical approach to security cameras.
I've installed a few sites including my own property and use an analytical method to determine where to place cameras.

1. Assess the threat. - You must have some idea of why you want to install video security. Maybe someone once entered through a window or stole from a garage. List all opportunities and rank them in order of impact then likelihood of happening.
2. 2 is 1. - For high risk zones a single camera may be taken out by a potential intruder. Overlapping zones of surveillance with cameras that have a view of other cameras provides a record of attempted tampering.
3. Whites of their eyes. - Avoid positioning cameras so high to prevent tampering that you cannot identify the face of an intruder. Its useless to record the top of someone's head or his/her cap. Positioning so that camera is at a 45

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