CCTV Surveillance
Video Practices and Technology
- 2nd Edition - December 2, 2006
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Author: Herman Kruegle
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 5 0 6 - 7 7 6 8 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 6 8 1 8 - 1
This revision of the classic book on CCTV technology, CCTV Surveillance, provides a comprehensive examination of CCTV, covering the applications of various systems, how to design… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis revision of the classic book on CCTV technology, CCTV Surveillance, provides a comprehensive examination of CCTV, covering the applications of various systems, how to design and install a system, and how to choose the right hardware. Taking into account the ever-changing advances in technology using digital techniques and the Internet, CCTV Surveillance, Second Edition, is completely updated with the recent advancements in digital cameras and digital recorders, remote monitoring via the Internet, and CCTV integration with other security systems.
Continuing in the celebrated tradition of the first edition, the second edition is written to serve as a useful resource for the end-user as well as the technical practitioner. Each chapter begins with an overview, and presents the latest information on the relevant equipment, describing the characteristics, features and application of each device. Coverage of aging or obsolete technology is reduced to a historical perspective, and eight brand new chapters cover digital video technology, multiplexers, integrated camera-lens-housing, smart domes, and rapid deployment CCTV systems.
Continuing in the celebrated tradition of the first edition, the second edition is written to serve as a useful resource for the end-user as well as the technical practitioner. Each chapter begins with an overview, and presents the latest information on the relevant equipment, describing the characteristics, features and application of each device. Coverage of aging or obsolete technology is reduced to a historical perspective, and eight brand new chapters cover digital video technology, multiplexers, integrated camera-lens-housing, smart domes, and rapid deployment CCTV systems.
- Serves as an indispensable resource on CCTV theory
- Includes eight new chapters on the use of digital components and other related technologies that have seen a recent explosion in use
- Fully illustrated, the book contains completely updated photographs and diagrams that represent the latest in CCTV technology advancements
Security managers, consultants, designers dealers and installers.
1. Video's Critical Role in the Security Plan
2. Video Technology Overview
3. Natural and Artificial Lighting
4. Lenses and Optics
5. Cameras-Analog, Digital, and Internet
6. Analog Video, Voice and Control Signal Transmission
7. Digital Remote Monitoring – Video, Communications, Control
8. Analog Monitors and Digital Displays
9. Analog, Digital Video Recorders
10. Hard Copy Video Printers
11. Video Switchers
12. Quads and Multiplexers
13. Video Motion Detectors
14. Dome Cameras
15. Integrated Cameras, Camera Housings and Accessories
16. Electronic Video Image Splitting, Reversal, and Annotation
17. Camera Pan/Tilt Mechanisms
18. Covert Video Surveillance
19. Low-Light-Level Cameras, Thermal Infrared Imagers
20. Control Room/Console Design
21. Rapid Deployment Video Systems
22. Applications and Solutions-Sample Scenarios
23. System Power Sources
24. Video-Security Systems Integration
25. Video System Test Equipment
26. Video Check List
27. Education, Standards, Certification
28. New Video Technology
2. Video Technology Overview
3. Natural and Artificial Lighting
4. Lenses and Optics
5. Cameras-Analog, Digital, and Internet
6. Analog Video, Voice and Control Signal Transmission
7. Digital Remote Monitoring – Video, Communications, Control
8. Analog Monitors and Digital Displays
9. Analog, Digital Video Recorders
10. Hard Copy Video Printers
11. Video Switchers
12. Quads and Multiplexers
13. Video Motion Detectors
14. Dome Cameras
15. Integrated Cameras, Camera Housings and Accessories
16. Electronic Video Image Splitting, Reversal, and Annotation
17. Camera Pan/Tilt Mechanisms
18. Covert Video Surveillance
19. Low-Light-Level Cameras, Thermal Infrared Imagers
20. Control Room/Console Design
21. Rapid Deployment Video Systems
22. Applications and Solutions-Sample Scenarios
23. System Power Sources
24. Video-Security Systems Integration
25. Video System Test Equipment
26. Video Check List
27. Education, Standards, Certification
28. New Video Technology
- Edition: 2
- Published: December 2, 2006
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- No. of pages: 672
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780750677684
- eBook ISBN: 9780080468181
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Herman Kruegle
Herman Kruegle is a consultant to Avida Inc., a manufacturer of rapid deployment video systems for personnel protection. He was formerly the president of Visual Methods, Inc., an electro-optics firm engaged in the manufacture of CCTV security and electro-optical, low vision, and inspection products. Mr. Kruegle holds six patents in the security, electro-optical, and laser fields. He has published numerous papers in professional electro-optics and security journals, including a lens primer series on CCTV optics and lenses and a series on covert CCTV security. Mr. Kruegle has been a contributing author for three texts focusing on CCTV security as applied to loss prevention in industry, museums, libraries, and cargo.
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Private Security Consultant, Rivervale, NJ, USARead CCTV Surveillance on ScienceDirect