Closed circuit television / by Joe Cieszynski
Publisher: Oxford : Newnes, 2003Description: 259 p.; 24cm001: 10238ISBN: 0750657286Subject(s): Closed circuit television | Television engineeringDDC classification: 621.38863 CIEItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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.
Includes diagrams
Includes acknowledgements, index
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)
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