A man accused of stealing a laptop was seen on CCTV footage but due to the camera being out of focus was acquitted.
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The Fountain Pen versus Computer
In a recent Twitter discussion with @Tarale about the price of a fountain pen being up to $5000 the question was raised why not use a standard . @Tarale prefers them because they look nice and don’t leave a blob of ink at the start of a line and cited this example. Challenging that thought […]
The Day it all Turned Sour
I’ve got to say it has been a crap day for me today. You know when you have a schedule to stick to and you are several hundred kilometres away from the office, something just has to go wrong. For me it started yesterday. Leaving home at 8am to drive to a site some 5 […]
Other Good Educational CCTV Training Sites
While I don’t want you send you away from my site and I hope you get some value from the content here, I keep my eye out for other sites providing great contence.
CCTV Installation. Do You Provide What The Customer Wants or What They Need?
When you are asked to quote a CCTV installation, you have a choice. Quote what will win the work or what will do what the client needs. How to achieve both.
What does this door say to you?
Take a good look at this door. Does it say anything to you? To me it says security problem. Why? The door is controlled by a proximity card reader to unlock it. No big deal there. The prox reader has lost power and the fuse is on the other side of the door. No problems, […]
Evaluation of the ACTi KCM-7211 4MP
[easyazon-image-link asin=”B005IZZ854″ alt=”Acti KCM-7211 H.264/M-JPEG/MPEG-4 MP Outdoor Vandal D&N IP, 4MP, w/ 2-way audio, OmniVision CMOS BSI” src=”http://cctvdesign.online/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/image_thumb7.png” alt=”ACTi KCM-7211 4MP” width=”244″ height=”213″ align=”right” border=”0″ [/easyazon-image-link] has released the latest in their surveillance camera mega pixel range. A with true day night switching, a 3.3-12mm motorised zoom lens with p-iris lens and two way audio. […]
Evaluation of effective coverage from cameras in public areas
The following page is related to the Linkedin posts on CCTV for ID quality about achieving coverage in council areas with fixed position cameras instead of PTZ cameras. Diagram 1 shows the coverage of a 1.3MP 4:3 aspect IP camera with a 65 degree lens for use in a council area that wants . This […]
IP Video – Don’t believe the spec !
Since the acceptance of IP video, terms like MPEG4, H.264, 4CIF, D1, MJPEG, QCIF, CIF, DVD quality HD, Mega-pixel & MJPEG have been thrown around as statements of image quality. Unfortunately these terms have absolutely no relation to actual image quality. In fact in most IP product specifications there is no true measure of the […]
Covert Remote Surveillance
I was at a covert applications conference recently and was intrigued as to how IndigoVision encoders were being used. Actually not so much how but more the low bandwidth they were being used with. We often talk about giving great off site images at 250Kbps 12ips CIF and recording on site at 4CIF 25ips but […]
