Digital CCTV: A Security Professional's Guide

by Emily M. Harwood, Alan Matchett

Overview

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. Digital CCTV addresses this new challenge.

Topics convered include compression variables such as Lossless and Lossy, which are explained by reviewing Huffman and Run Length Encoding (RLE), 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750677455
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	07/31/2007
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Emily M. Harwood is a technical author and consultant. She is currently the owner of Amani Marketing and Business Consulting, providing seminar and exhibition coordination as well as business planning for companies within the security industry. The author of dozens of articles in such magazines as Security Management and Government Video, she previously worked for a security product manufacturer and has served as a technical editor for Security Technology and Design.

Alan R. Matchett CPP, CHS-V is a Security Consultant for

Johnson Controls Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With over 24 years of experience, Mr. Matchett has worked in a wide variety of environments and has established himself as a leading authority in CCTV, Access Control, Electronic and Physical Security. Since 1988, he has performed security work in over 80 countries throughout the world. Mr. Matchett has also performed design, analysis, installation, repairs and Project Management for residential, industrial, office environment, retail, military, foreign and U.S. government, Nuclear, educational, healthcare, telecommunication, hotel and lodging, and food service customers. Mr. Matchett has a B.A. in Creative Writing and a B.S. in Electronic Engineering Technology. He has been a Certified Protection Professional since 1993 and is frequently called upon for speaking engagements internationally. He has written numerous articles for Security publications, newspapers and magazines.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - We Live In An Analog WorldChapter 2 - What Exactly Is Digital Video? Chapter 3 - In The Beginning Chapter 4 - Compression - The Simple Version Chapter 5 - More On Digital Video CompressionChapter 6 - Internet Transmission, Networked Video and StorageChapter 7 - Guided Video Transmission Chapter 8 - Wireless Video TransmissionChapter 9 - Examples Of Digital Video For SecurityChapter 10 - Pieces And PartsChapter 11 - Integrating Digital Video With Other TechnologiesChapter 12 More Digital Video ApplicationsChapter 13 - From VTRs to VCRs, DVRs, and NVRsChapter 14 - Central Station Monitoring and VideoChapter 15 - More Digital Video ApplicationsChapter 16 - New Roles of Digital Video Glossary

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Unlock the mysteries of digital science as they apply to the accelerated growth industry of CCTV Security Surveillance!