Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance is one of the fastest growing areas in the security industry. This book offers a guide for professionals involved in the installation and maintenance of CCTV systems, system design, specification and purchasing and the management of CCTV systems. This title is not just a discussion of security issues, but a guide to the technical side of the subject - cameras and monitors, video recording, cabling and transmission, installation and maintenance. material to this edition covers lighting, digital signal transmission, integrated CCTV/intruder alarm systems, CAT5 cabling, digital recording, video printers, ancillary equipment, and a glossary.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. ix)
• Acknowledgements (p. xi)
• 1 The CCTV industry (p. 1)
• The role of CCTV (p. 2)
• The CCTV industry (p. 4)
• 2 Signal transmission (p. 7)
• CCTV signals (p. 7)
• Co-axial cable (p. 9)
• Ground loops (p. 16)
• Twisted pair cable (p. 20)
• Category 5 (Cat 5) cable (p. 22)
• Ribbon cable (p. 25)
• Fibre-optic cable (p. 26)
• Infra-red beam (p. 29)
• Microwave link (p. 30)
• UHF RF transmission (p. 31)
• CCTV via the telephone network (p. 33)
• Connectors (p. 34)
• Cable test equipment (p. 36)
• 3 Light and lighting (p. 40)
• Light and the human eye (p. 40)
• Measuring light (p. 43)
• Light characteristics (p. 45)
• Artificial lighting (p. 46)
• 4 Lenses (p. 52)
• Lens theory (p. 52)
• Lens parameters (p. 54)
• Zoom lenses (p. 70)
• Electrical connections (p. 72)
• Lens mounts (p. 76)
• Filters (p. 78)
• Lens adjustment (p. 78)
• Lens finding (p. 80)
• 5 Fundamentals of television (p. 83)
• The cathode ray tube (p. 83)
• The colour CRT (p. 87)
• Producing a raster (p. 89)
• Picture resolution (p. 92)
• Synchronization (p. 95)
• The luminance signal (p. 98)
• The chrominance signal (p. 99)
• Television signals (p. 102)
• Digital video signals (p. 105)
• Video compression (p. 108)
• MPEG-2 compression (p. 110)
• Wavelet compression (p. 113)
• 6 The CCTV camera (p. 115)
• Tube/CCD comparison (p. 115)
• Charge coupled device (p. 115)
• Deriving an interlaced raster (p. 116)
• CCD chip operation (p. 118)
• Colour imaging (p. 123)
• Camera operation (p. 126)
• White balance (p. 130)
• Camera sensitivity (p. 131)
• Camera resolution (p. 132)
• Camera operating voltages (p. 133)
• Specialized cameras (p. 134)
• 7 Monitors (p. 139)
• Block diagram (p. 139)
• Monochrome monitor (p. 146)
• Monitor safety (p. 147)
• Terminator switches (p. 149)
• Resolution (p. 151)
• Ergonomics (p. 151)
• 8 Recording equipment (p. 154)
• Video recording principles (p. 155)
• VHS (Video Home System) (p. 159)
• Super VHS (p. 161)
• Time-lapse recording (p. 164)
• Time-lapse VCR features (p. 167)
• VCR maintenance (p. 170)
• Video head cleaning (p. 172)
• DAT recorders (p. 174)
• Type management and care (p. 174)
• Digital video tape (p. 175)
• Disk-based video recording (p. 177)
• Recording capacity (p. 177)
• Security of digital information (p. 181)
• 9 Camera switching and multiplexing (p. 182)
• Sequential switching (p. 182)
• Matrix switching (p. 187)
• The quad splitter (p. 191)
• Video multiplexers (p. 193)
• Video motion detection (VMD) (p. 199)
• 10 Telemetry control (p. 202)
• Hard wired control (p. 203)
• Control data transmission (p. 205)
• Pan/tilt (P/T) control (p. 207)
• Receiver unit (p. 209)
• Dome systems (p. 210)
• Data communications (p. 211)
• 11 Ancillary equipment (p. 216)
• Camera mountings (p. 216)
• Towers and columns (p. 221)
• Pan/tilt units (p. 224)
• Monitor brackets (p. 229)
• Power supplies (p. 230)
• 12 Commissioning and maintenance (p. 234)
• Commissioning (p. 234)
• Measuring resolution (p. 234)
• System handover (p. 238)
• Preventative maintenance (p. 240)
• Corrective maintenance (p. 241)
• Fault location (p. 242)
• Oscilloscope default settings (p. 244)
• Glossary of CCTV terms (p. 246)
• Index (p. 259)