Crime against property is falling across the UK, but the police still recorded over half a million incidents last year. With our houses increasingly filled with high value items including easily stolen digital devices, protecting our homes from attack is a sensible precaution to take. With advanced IP-based systems now available at relatively low cost, anyone can set up their own surveillance system to protect their home or business premises.Simply attaching a few CCTV cameras to your home that record onto a PVR has up until recently been the only way to create your own surveillance system. Today, however, it is easy to set up a more advanced system that is more versatile and that can enable you to monitor your home from any location. Unshackling CCTV cameras from PVR recording, and moving them to cloud-based storage services frees your system to deliver a number of advantages including:Video footage on a PVR can be erased, destroyed or the machine itself stolen.