If you are an end user about to purchase a CCTV system and you have little or no knowledge about the product you are about to buy , how do you ensure that you are making the right choice of both CCTV equipment and of your security supplier?. There are several steps you can take and each one will give you an insight into what you are… Continue reading
Advice for buying a CCTV security system
Posted By: blogadminFebruary 25th, 2013
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Can you mix and match IP manufacturers equipment?
Posted By: blogadminFebruary 20th, 2013
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Mix and Match IP.
A recent interview in this months PSI magazine with Peter Ford the managing director of Pro-Vision made a fleeting but very interesting observation about the future of IP cameras and their associated software. Provision are a very well respected and successful CCTV equipment distributor so what they say should be paid attention to.
In the interview Peter made mention of how since the early seventies… Continue reading
Redwall IP sensors
Posted By: blogadminJanuary 29th, 2013
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Optex the sensor manufacturer has become the first major supplier of detectors to introduce IP into their sensor range. Optex are taking a bit a of leap into the unknown here. Alarms and IP are not new but normally we would expect to convert a set a clean contacts from our sensing device into an IP format through IP converters and having them built into the sensor
The security industry and the perfect storm
Posted By: blogadminJanuary 14th, 2013
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No industry in the country has seen margins cut quite like the security industry. Anyone who operates within the security environment are victims of what in effect is a perfect storm. Cheap imports, suicidal pricing, the electrical industry, IP technology and mis-selling have all combined together, all at the same time in a way that may yet sink many. What makes things worse is there does not… Continue reading
The HDcctv alliance are setting the standards for HD over coax
Posted By: blogadminDecember 18th, 2012
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We have recently published excerpts of our interview with Todd Rockoff . Today we publish the interview in full. Todd represents the HDcctv alliance and everything they are currently trying to achieve. With the growth of HD over coax comes responsibility and the HDcctv alliance are setting the standards and educating the world of CCTV why it is so important to ensure all things HD SDI should be interoperable
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