NESLO

The other day while I was shopping for groceries, I saw NESLO, the instant Nescafe coffee and MILO. A combination of Malaysian most popular coffee (70% market share) and chocolate malt beverage (90% market share).

The ultimate Malaysian drink.


This smart combination happens in our CCTV industry as well.

A hybrid NDVR system comes with analog composite video supporting DVR and digital network camera supporting NVR software. Like NESLO, hybrid NDVR gives you the advantages & benefits of both the analog & ip surveillance gear.


Cherlyn Gan's video demonstrates we all Malaysian are crazy for this fusion drink. It was published on May 22, 2009 even before Nestle launched it's NESLO in November, 2009.

Camera Trick

Sometimes CCTV camera can play trick on us.

No CCTV Sunday #24 Malaysia Beatboxer Shawn Lee

Few days ago I watched this Malaysia Beatboxer perform on TV, I's impressed.

Check it out!

Someone Else's Shabby Job

That's why most CCTV installers refuse to take on job to rectify someone else's poorly executed CCTV job.

Break-in

We had a long Chinese New Year (CNY) break (13th till 17th Feb).

It is Malaysian tradition for the city dwellers to go back to their home towns (villages) to celebrate CNY.

We were back to work yesterday and so far we had received phone calls from 3 CCTV prospects. 2 houses were break-in and the third prospect's in-law house had possible break-in attempt.

One of the CCTV prospect is a friend's friend. He said, he wanted to install a CCTV system but his wife kept stopping him as she argued that the whole neighborhood is guarded by well trained guards.

He said his wife's LV bag is worth more than a CCTV system and she had lost 3 of them. That is that, the police reporting and the house-visit investigation were troublesome and the worst part was the cleaning up of the house. All these are extremely exhausting especially after the tiring CNY celebration and the long journey back from home town.

Oldest Security Gear

The other day A CCTV prospect asked if we have any security gear which required no power supply.

I proposed the following unplugged security devices;

Hardworking Security Guard


Fiercest Guard Dog


The prospect told me those 2 options are too troublesome and expensive to maintain, he said he want something which required no power supply nor alive.

I proposed to him yet another 2 alternatives.



He bought some IP cameras from us.

No CCTV Sunday #23 Happy Chinese New Year

Gong Xi Fa Cai !!!

Our very own world lion dance champ



the naked lion

Jimmy Choo's Sandals?

The other day a rather well-dressed affluence looking lady came to our CCTV outlet to claim warranty for her CCTV cameras.

Our technician advised her that those cameras were not from us.

She could not produce the invoice but insisted that those cameras were from us.

I approached her, picked up one of her cameras, looked for our warranty sticker on the camera which I had found none.

I kindly told her, "Ma'am, we can tell if a sandals was Jimmy Choos."





I must admit I was rude. Guilty as charged.

Destined to Fail

Some CCTV systems were badly designed or deployed, it is destined to fail.




It is sad to see some arrogant CCTV installers heading for trouble as their CCTV designs are faulty. Most of the time we can see it coming but not many of those installers will take our advice.

Once the cable is laid and equipment purchased, there is no turning back.

Firefox DVR

Some Mozilla Firefox die hard fans, for whatever reasons they just refuse to use Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE).

They said the browser is unfriendly and not safe.

But when it comes to Internet remote monitoring function for Digital Video Recorder (DVR), those Firefox users used to have no choice but to use IE as older generation DVR supports only IE.


DVR Internet remote monitoring with IE Browser




Nowadays there are DVRs that support Firefox browser. One of those is TANDER 3000 series DVRs.


TANDER DVR Internet remote monitoring with Firefox Browser




Not only the DVR suports Firefox but it supports other browsers as well.


TANDER DVR Internet remote monitoring with Google Chrome Browser.




TANDER DVR Internet remote monitoring with Safari Browser




TANDER 3000 series DVRs also supports mobile devices like Blackberry, iPhone, Windows Mobile and Symbian OS phones.

One BB and Firefox user happily call his newly deployed TANDER DVR as Firefox DVR.

Workers Caught on Camera

It doesn't matter if your workers were white-collar or blue-collar, It is wise to have CCTV cameras monitoring them.


A MACQUARIE stockbroker, David Kiely being caught live on television looking at a series of near-nude snaps of supermodel Miranda Kerr. (Thanks Kenny)




A shell station worker had a cigarette break while working.

Simple Solution

Few months ago, a factory owner complained to me that a CCTV installer had quoted him dearly for deploying a cctv camera at his factory's guard house to monitor the incoming and outgoing vehicles.

The guard house is 30 meters away from the factory building with tar road in between.

To pull a cable from the factory building to the guard house is no easy task, its involve the expensive water resistant armoured cable, hacking of the road, power and lightning surge protection and traffic obstruction during the cabling job.

Eventually the factory owner had adopted my idea which is cheap and hassle free; to deploy a box camera with a lens at the factory building which can zoom in the guard house entrance.

This experience reminded me of a NASA story.

In the 60s NASA had invested billions of dollars to make American astronauts first on the moon.

During the journey the astronauts need to use pens. Ordinary pens can not function in zero gravity as ink needs gravitational pull to move from pen to page, so NASA invested over $1 million to design a special space pen that works in weightless conditions.

At the same time, the Russians astronauts opted for a simpler, cheaper solution; pencil.

Great solution does not has to come at high price. It is often the cheapest solution that works best.