While working at a Centre Link office today I noticed that of the 11 cameras in the public foyer, not one was of any use. So I thought I would test their security alertness and in view of everyone I took some photos of what they were covering. After taking several photos of the cameras […]
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Healthcare Safety Transformed with Integrated IP Security
Greater Baltimore Medical Centre (GBMC) has upgraded its aging analogue CCTV and access control to a fully integrated security solution using IndigoVision’s IP Video technology. The 281-bed Facility is located within Towson, a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, and manages somewhere around 27 thousand inpatients and 60 thousand emergency room visitors annually. After the previous CCTV […]
3D CCTV Design from 2D Aerial Photo
In a previous post, we looked at some footage published where the police were looking for help to identify someone in a car park. The images were of no use for the intent of the coverage as they are all too wide. After modelling it in a 3D CCTV CAD, we get a […]
The Caption Should Read Why Cant You Recognise These People
Every day the media is putting out footage of crimes asking for help to identify people. Often the CCTV installer has no idea themselves that they are producing poor quality results that are useless. You would think that there might be some understanding as to what we need from a surveillance camera to actually be […]
An IP65 Camera – It’s Just not Cricket
You would think you can install an internal camera in a fully sheltered environment and be safe. Unfortunately not always. This camera, located in a train station was reported by the operators as having a problem with the image. It’s Just Not Cricket ! Related Topics
The Tender Game – Measuring Image Quality of a Surveillance System
The ability to define an output image quality of a CCTV system seems to have been lost as we moved into a digital age over the past 10 years. If you looked at a surveillance system in year 2000, it was most likely a CCD camera connected to a multiplexer and a time lapse VCR. […]
How Well Does a Video Surveillance System Design Based on ONVIF Work?
Having just completed some training on ONVIF, it appears there are many aspects that need to be considered before selecting the surveillance camera for your system design as not all cameras offer all aspect of the standards and some work better than others. As a CCTV consultant I am concerned about what will happen when […]
What Is Wrong With This CCTV Footage?
This footage found on the Courier Mail site shows a typical camera setup that should give good ID images given the tight scene. While the results are reasonable, there are two key areas that should be addressed to improve the over all results. The amount of roof at the top of the scene is […]
Police in Ballarat hit back at claims of the Street Safe CCTV being ineffective
As reported in The Courier, one of Ballarat’s most senior law enforcement officers has hit back at states the city’s Closed-circuit television cameras provide virtually no deterrent for late-night party goers who create chaos on weekends. In a letter to the editor, Ballarat police Inspector Bruce Thomas defended police use of the CCTV cameras, writing […]
More poor quality security video with a holdup in Emerald
Here is a fine example of surveillance video from a HD camera (you can tell by the 16:9 aspect ratio) that is next to useless. First of all a HD camera, whether it is 720p or 1080p should give a really crisp image but this one has so much compression applied, most likely to increase […]
