If your goal is to monitor people and property secretly, it is best to use a covert camera. They are also called hidden surveillance cameras, spy cameras or hidden security cameras. They are often concealed in housings to make them look like smoke detectors, motion sprinklers, motion sensors or other things.

Covert cameras can be used for a number of reasons to protect your interests both at home or at work.

At home, you can use covert cameras to monitor builders or cleaners who are working in your home to ensure they are doing their job properly. You can also use it to monitor a nanny who is looking after your kids to monitor they are being cared for and not abused. Covert cameras have also been used by people who suspect their partner of cheating on them.

At work, you can use them to prevent stealing or shoplifting. If not customers, your own employees can be guilty of stealing from you. Covert cameras also let you monitor if your staff are doing their friends a favor and making it look like a normal transaction.

Covert cameras can also be used to protect your staff. Robbers are often deterred by the presence of CCTV cameras. Covert cameras may not scare robbers away, but in the event they are able to commit the crime, you will have evidence to identify them. Incidences of fraud are also easier to report if you have them recorded by hidden cameras.

Covert cameras can also protect your staff against threats or any form of physical or verbal abuse from irate customers.

Whatever your purpose for installing covert cameras, always adhere to the data protection laws in your city or country. In your home, it is your right to monitor any activity by using covert cameras. In public places, the same consideration may not apply. Sometimes, it is illegal to record or film conversations without the consent of the other party. At work, it might be better to have a camera installed in plain view and where people expect to be monitored.