Closed Circuit Television -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: The CCTV industry -- The role of CCTV -- The CCTV industry -- Chapter 2: Signal transmission -- CCTV signals -- Co-axial cable -- Ground loops -- Twisted pair cable -- Structured cabling -- Power over Ethernet -- Ribbon cable -- Fibre-optic cable -- Infrared beam -- Microwave link -- UHF RF transmission -- CCTV via the telephone network -- Connectors -- Cable test equipment -- Chapter 3: Light and lighting -- Light and the human eye -- Measuring light -- Light characteristics -- Artificial lighting -- Chapter 4: Lenses -- Lens theory -- Lens parameters -- Zoom lenses -- Electrical connections -- Lens mounts -- Filters -- Lens adjustment -- Lens finding -- Chapter 5: Fundamentals of television -- Producing a raster -- Picture resolution -- Synchronization -- The luminance signal -- The chrominance signal -- Television signals -- Digital video signals -- Video compression -- MPEG-2 compression -- MPEG-4 compression -- Wavelet compression -- Common interchange format (CIF) -- ITU-T recommendations -- Chapter 6: The CCTV camera -- Charge coupled device -- CCD chip operation -- Electronic iris -- IR filters -- Colour imaging -- Camera operation -- White balance -- Back light compensation -- Colour/mono cameras -- Camera sensitivity -- Camera resolution -- Camera operating voltages -- Specialized cameras -- Covert cameras -- 360° cameras -- Number plate recognition cameras -- Chapter 7: Video display equipment -- The cathode ray tube -- The colour CRT -- CRT monitors -- Monitor safety -- Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) -- Plasma display panels (PDPs) -- Projection systems -- Termination switching -- Resolution -- Ergonomics -- Chapter 8: Video recording equipment -- Digital video recorders (DVRs) -- DVR principle -- Effects of compression.

Recording capacity -- RAID disk recording -- Digital video information extraction -- VHS recording -- Time-lapse recording -- VCR maintenance -- Video head cleaning -- Tape management and care -- Digital video tape -- Chapter 9: Camera switching and multiplexing -- Sequential switching -- Matrix switching -- The quad splitter -- Video multiplexers -- Video motion detection (VMD) -- Chapter 10: Telemetry control -- Control data transmission -- Pan/tilt (P/T) control -- Receiver unit -- Dome systems -- Data communications -- Chapter 11: CCTV over networks -- Network topology -- Network hardware -- Network communications -- IPv4 classes -- Reserved addresses -- Subnetting -- Assigning IP addresses -- Manually assigned IP addresses -- Address resolution protocol (ARP) -- Autoconfiguration -- Domain name service (DNS) -- Ports -- Other network protocols -- IPv6 -- Network diagnostics -- CCTV over a network -- Network CCTV example -- Integrating analogue cameras -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Ancillary equipment -- Camera mountings -- Towers and columns -- Pan/tilt units -- Monitor brackets -- Power supplies -- Voltage drop -- Chapter 13: Commissioning and maintenance -- Commissioning -- Measuring resolution -- System handover -- Preventative maintenance -- Corrective maintenance -- Fault location -- Oscilloscope default settings -- Glossary of CCTV terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.