As the name suggests, a panoramic camera helps form a continuous record of an expansive sector of the horizon. They allow exceptional real-time security compared to traditional and asymmetric security threats. Panoramic cameras prove highly useful in video surveillance systems, as the continuously create and relay high-definition panoramic images or videos of a particular area, thus enabling better control over it.

Thus, they are useful in areas that wide-area surveillance like coasts, ports, sensitive premises, borders, etc. These cameras can identify and provide intrusion alerts to even the smallest of threat, thus cautioning everyone and minimizing the risk.