Digital CCTV : a security professional's guide / Emily Harwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harwood, Emily.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Closed-circuit television.

Digital video.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Digital closed circuit television

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INTERNET AND INTRANETNETWORKING; NETWORKED VIDEO; VIDEO DISTRIBUTION VIA THE INTERNET; STREAMING VIDEO AND DOWNLOADABLE VIDEO; STORING DIGITAL VIDEO; HARD DISC STORAGE; REMOVABLE STORAGE; Chapter 7: Guided Video Transmission; TRANSMISSION AND CONNECTION TYPES; Chapter 8: Wireless Video Transmission; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; CELLULAR TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS BROADBAND ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS (GPS); WIRELESS SECURITY; Chapter 9: Examples of Digital Video for Security; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION; SCHOOL AND CAMPUS SECURITY; AIRPORT SECURITY

THE BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786611120269

9781281120267

128112026X

9780080548432

0080548431

OCLC:

437186430