Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- First chapter -- 1. SI units of measurement -- The basic units -- Derived units -- Metric prefixes -- 2. Light and television -- A little bit of history -- Light basics and the human eye -- Light units -- Measuring object illumination in CCTV -- Light onto an imaging device -- Colors in television -- Color temperatures and light sources -- Eye persistence -- 3. Optics in CCTV -- Refraction -- Lenses as optical elements -- Geometrical construction of images -- Aspherical lenses -- CTF and MTF -- F and T numbers -- Depth of field -- Neutral density (ND) filters -- Manual, auto, and motorized iris lenses -- Video- and DC-driven auto iris lenses -- Auto iris lens electronics -- Image and lens formats in CCTV -- Angles of view and how to determine them -- Fixed focal length lenses -- Zoom lenses -- C- and CS-mount and back-focus -- Back-focus adjustment -- Optical accessories in CCTV -- 4. General characteristics of television systems -- A little bit of history -- The very basics of television -- NTSC television timing chart -- PAL B television timing chart -- The video signal and its spectrum -- Color video signal -- Resolution -- Instruments commonly used in TV -- Oscilloscope -- Spectrum analyzer -- Vectorscope -- Television systems around the world -- HDTV -- 5. CCTV cameras -- General information about cameras -- Tube cameras -- CCD cameras -- Sensitivity and resolution of the CCD chips -- Types of charge transfer in CCDs -- Pulses used in CCD for transferring charges -- CCD chip as a sampler -- Correlated double sampling (CDS) -- Camera specifications and their meanings -- Sensitivity -- Minimum illumination -- Camera resolution -- Signal/noise ratio (S/N) -- Dynamic range of a CCD chip -- Color CCD cameras -- White balance -- CMOS technology.

Special low-light-intensified cameras -- Camera power supplies and copper conductors -- V-phase adjustment -- Camera checklist -- 6. CCTV monitors -- General about monitors -- Monitor sizes -- Monitor adjustments -- Impedance switch -- Viewing conditions -- Gamma -- LCD monitors -- Projectors and projection monitors -- Plasma display monitors -- Field emission technology displays -- 7. Video processing equipment -- Analog switching equipment -- Video sequential switchers -- Synchronization -- Video matrix switchers (VMSs) -- Switching and processing equipment -- Quad compressors -- Multiplexers (MUX) -- Recording time delays -- Simplex and duplex multiplexers -- Video motion detectors (VMDs) -- Framestores -- Video printers -- 8. Analog video recorders -- A little bit of history and the basic concept -- The early VCR concepts -- The video home system (VHS) concept -- Super VHS, Y/C, and comb filtering -- Consumer VCRs for CCTV purposes -- Time-lapse VCRs (TL VCRs) -- 9. Digital video -- Why digital video? -- Digital video recorders (DVRs) -- The various standards -- ITU-601: Merging the NTSC and PAL -- The resolution of ITU-601 digitized video -- The need for compression -- Types of compressions -- DCT as a basis -- The variety of compression standards in CCTV -- JPEG -- M-JPEG -- Wavelet -- JPEG-2000 -- Motion JPEG 2000 -- MPEG-1 -- MPEG-2 -- MPEG-4 -- MPEG-7 -- MPEG-21 -- H.320 -- H.261 -- H.263 -- H.264 -- About pixels and resolution -- Dots per inch (DPI) -- Psychophysiology of viewing details -- Recognizing faces and license plates in CCTV -- Operating systems and hard disks -- Hard disk drives -- The different file systems -- FAT (File Allocation Table) -- FAT32 (File Allocation Table 32) -- NTFS (New Technology File System) -- Ext2 -- Ext3 -- ReiserFS -- HFS and HFS+ -- XFS -- UFS -- ATA, SCSI, RAID, and SATA.

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) -- 10. Transmission media -- Coaxial cables -- The concept -- Noise and electromagnetic interference -- Characteristic impedance -- BNC connectors -- Coaxial cables and proper BNC termination -- Installation techniques -- Time domain reflectometer (TDR) -- Twisted pair video transmission -- Microwave links -- RF wireless (open air) video transmission -- Infrared wireless (open air) video transmission -- Transmission of images over telephone lines -- PSTN -- ISDN -- Cellular network -- Fiber optics -- Why fiber? -- The concept -- Types of optical fibers -- Numerical aperture -- Light levels in fiber optics -- Light sources in fiber optics transmission -- Light detectors in fiber optics -- Frequencies in fiber optics transmission -- Passive components -- Fusion splicing -- Mechanical splicing -- Fiber optics multiplexers -- Fiber optics cables -- Installation techniques -- Fiber optic link analysis -- OTDR -- 11. Networking in CCTV -- The Information Technology era -- Computers and networks -- LAN and WAN -- Ethernet -- The main Ethernet categories -- 10 Mb/s Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) -- Fast Ethernet (IEEE 802.3U) -- Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE 802.3Z) -- Gigabit Ethernet over Copper (IEEE 802.3AB) -- 10 Gigabit Ethernet -- Wireless Ethernet (IEEE 802.11) -- Data speed and types of network cabling -- Ethernet over coax and UTP cables -- Patch and crossover cables -- Fiber optics network cabling -- Network concepts and components -- Networking software -- The Internet protocols -- The OSI seven-layer model of networking -- 1. The Physical layer -- 2. The Data Link layer -- 3. The Network layer -- 4. The Transport layer -- 5. The Session layer -- 6. The Presentation layer -- 7. The Application layer -- IP addresses -- IPv4 addressing notation -- IP address classes -- Class A, B, and C -- Private addresses -- IP address Class C.

IP loopback address -- Zero addresses -- IP address Class D and Multicast -- IP address Class E and limited broadcast -- IP network partitioning -- Virtual private networking (VPN) -- Subnetting -- IPv6 addressing notation -- IPv6 Address Types -- Reserved addresses in IPv6 -- Domain Name Systems (DNS) -- DHCP -- DNS and DHCP -- Networking hardware -- Hubs, bridges, and switches -- Routers for logical segmentation -- Network ports -- A network analogy example -- Wireless LAN -- What is 802.11? -- 802.11 (legacy) -- 802.11b -- 802.11a -- 802.11g -- 802.11n -- Certification and security -- What about Bluetooth? -- Putting a network system together -- The IP check commands -- 12. Auxiliary equipment in CCTV -- Pan and tilt heads -- Pan and tilt domes -- Preset positioning P/T heads -- PTZ site drivers -- Camera housings -- Lighting in CCTV -- Infrared lights -- Ground loop correctors -- Lightning protection -- In-line video amplifiers/equalizers -- Video distribution amplifiers (VDAs) -- 13. CCTV system design -- Understanding the customer's requirements -- Site inspections -- Designing and quoting a CCTV system -- Installation considerations -- Drawings -- Commissioning -- Training and manuals -- Handing over -- Preventative maintenance -- 14. Video testing -- The CCTV Labs test chart -- Before you start testing -- Use high-quality lens -- Use high-quality monitor -- Setup procedure -- What you can test -- Resolution -- Other important measurements -- Getting the best possible picture -- Measurement of the digital image compression quality -- The CCTV Labs test pattern generator TPG-8 -- How you could use the TPG-8 -- TPG-8 buttons description -- Connections -- The TPG-8 Navigator software -- Instruments used with the TPG-8 -- Test patterns and how to create them -- Specifications -- Appendix A Common terms used in CCTV.

Appendix B Bibliography and acknowledgments -- Appendix C All the CCTV links in the world -- Appendix D Book co-sponsors -- About the author... -- Index.