In addition to day and night cameras or infrared equipments, you now have another more cost effective solution-huperDVR 2400 Wide Dynamic Vision Pack to prevent this from happening.

Day and Night Visibility Enhancement Increase the visibility under a low illumination or backlighted environment.
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Sharpness Sharpen the blurred texture or text caused by focus loss.
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Noise Reduction Winnow out video signal noises to reduce the record size up to 50%.
Size: 5356 bytes/frame		Size: 4026 bytes/frame
Size Filtering for Motion Detection Filter out insignificant moving objects by size to reduce false alarms.
No Alarm		Alarm