Preface

Following the same philosophy contained in the first edition, the second edition is written for and contains information valuable to the end-user as well as the technical practitioner. Each chapter begins with an overview and then presents equipment available with their characteristics, features, and application.

The first edition of CCTV Surveillance in 1995 asked the question “why write a CCTV surveillance book?”. At that time, analog CCTV had progressed from a vacuum tube to a solid state technology that provided reliable, longlife small cameras produced at prices affordable for most security applications.

A decade later, significant advances have been made in camera sensors, computers, and digital transmission technology to warrant a ...

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