There are a number of advantages to remote monitoring, first of all the cost and remote monitoring solves all the problems of the main three types of protection
Conventional CCTV Systems
Conventional CCTV is great if someone is sitting watching it. The problem comes when your not there "WHEN YOU NEED IT" when something happens, its then you find yourself looking through hours of video tape only to find a masked intruder vandalises your premises.
Remote Monitoring adds teeth to CCTV it lets us react immediately stopping damage before it happens.
Burglar Alarms
Remote CCTV monitoring adds visual verification to alarm calls helping reduce every Police Officers nightmare false alarms. The Police have such a problem currently with flase alarms that their policy now is:-
"Three strikes and your out"
Three false alarms and they refuse to attend, the Police love visual verification of someone on site, it puts the excitment back in their job now they have a real chance of catching culprits.
Security Officers
Security Officers are an important part of Securitay's business and Remotely Monitored CCTV will never totaly replace manned guarding it will always have its place, but the CCTV does have some major advantage in the right situation.
Alarm activated CCTV protects all of your site all of the time a Security Officer can only be in one place at a time.
CCTV doesnt need breaks and it doesnt mind rain.
CCTV cant be threatened or bribed.
CCTV is never late or suffer from all the normal human failings