Although they may seem innocuous, labs, testing facilities and other research environments require stringent security to protect valuable ideas, researchers and expensive equipment from intellectual espionage, theft, and other threats. Video surveillance and security cameras are a valuable security tool for laboratories and can help keep intellectual property, experiments, equipment and researchers safe.

Each lab is diverse as the experiments that it conducts. Different labs can have vastly different security needs, so consider the following when you are thinking of setting up a surveillance system in your lab -