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Digital
CCTV: A Security Professional’s Guide
By Emily M. Harwood
This book explains industry concepts, acronyms and
buzzwords accurately and clearly. It covers history, current complexities and
the future effects of digital science. It also provides practical information
about how digital video works, how digital video is stored and transmitted, what
digital systems can and cannot accomplish, and what to expect from digital video
equipment in modern CCTV systems.
The effects of digital technology on the security industry
require constant vigilance by security distributors, sales staff and
installation professionals. Today and for the foreseeable future, all security
professionals must have at least a basic understanding of digital technology.
Topics covered include compression variables, such as
Lossless and Lossy, which are explained by reviewing Huffman and Run Length
Encoding, and by relating these forms of compression to ZIP and Stuffit, which
are commonly used in personal computers. A review of JPEG, motion JPEG, MPEG and
wavelet compression schemes, among others, with a comparison of the merits of
each, is also provided. As Digital CCTV
traces the stream of digital video flow from the computer industry through
compression, transmission, display and storage, and explains how analog video
signal is converted into a digital signal, the reader will learn and understand
the mysteries of digital science.
Contents:
1. We live in an analog world
2. What exactly is digital video?
3. In the beginning
4. Compression: The simple version
5. More on digital video compression
6. Internet transmission, networked video and storage
7. Guided video transmission
8. Wireless video transmission
9. Examples of digital video for security
10. Pieces and parts
11. Integrating digital video with other technologies
12. More digital video applications
13. From VTRs to VCRs, DVRs and NVRs
14. Central station monitoring and video
15. More digital video applications
16. New roles of digital video
Glossary
The books is intended for CCTV installers, CCTV system
designers and manufacturers, electronic security distributors, CCTV and
integrated system sales professionals, security managers and security
consultants.
ISBN: 978-0-7506-7745-5
328 pages
$59.95
Published July 31, 2007
Butterworth-Heinemann
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