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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457342203321

Autore

Harwood Emily

Titolo

Digital CCTV [[electronic resource] ] : a security professional's guide / / Emily Harwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, c2008

ISBN

1-281-12026-X

9786611120269

0-08-054843-1

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

384.55/6

Soggetti

Closed-circuit television

Digital video

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INTERNET AND INTRANETNETWORKING; NETWORKED VIDEO; VIDEO DISTRIBUTION VIA THE INTERNET; STREAMING VIDEO AND DOWNLOADABLE VIDEO; STORING DIGITAL VIDEO; HARD DISC STORAGE; REMOVABLE STORAGE; Chapter 7: Guided Video Transmission; TRANSMISSION AND CONNECTION TYPES; Chapter 8: Wireless Video Transmission; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; CELLULAR TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS BROADBAND ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS (GPS); WIRELESS SECURITY; Chapter 9: Examples of Digital Video for Security; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION; SCHOOL AND CAMPUS SECURITY; AIRPORT SECURITY

THE BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING

Sommario/riassunto

The effects of digital technology on the security industry require constant vigilance by security distributors, sales staff, and installation professionals.  Today and for the foreseeable future, all security professionals must have at least a basic understanding of digital technology.  Digital CCTV addresses this new challenge. Topics convered include compression variables such as Lossless and Lossy, which are explained by reviewing Huffman and Run Length Encoding



(RLE), and by relating these forms of compression to ZIP and Stuffit, which are commonly used in personal computers