Oscar Pistorius

Most of the time when I introduce myself as a CCTV guy to a perfect stranger, the reaction is rather negative. I found out later they often associate CCTV with negative thought like crime, burglary, shoplifting, vandalism, paranoid, pervert, peeping tom, control freak etc.

Before I continue I would like to share with you a story.



All the while living with prosthetic legs was seen as a huge impediment, but Oscar Pistorius, a young man from South African has turned this perception upside down. At age 1 his lower legs were amputated and at 20, this talented sprinter began to close in on an Olympic-qualifying time for the 400m. Experts said that his times were so good that he must have been getting an unfair advantage from his blade like prosthetics and eventually The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) had bared him from competing against able-bodied athletes at the Olympic Games in Beijing.

The point is Pistorius had actually gave the world a shocking paradigm shifting in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage.

Perception is a very funny thing, it make you see what you want to see, hear what you want to hear and it is very dangerous too as it shun you from seeing or hearing other possibilities. Now please allow me to introduce you to a few positive thought about CCTV. CCTV is for monitor productivity, improve efficiency, reduce losses and eventually to improve your bottom line. The ultimate purpose of deploying a surveillance system is to set yourself free!