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CCTV Focus Magazine
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Vlado Damjanovski
Editor
66 Yaringa
Road, Castle Hill, NSW 2154, AUSTRALIA
PROFILE
CCTV Focus is an international bi-monthly magazine dedicated to closed circuit television industry and technology. It is produced and published by CCTV Labs from Australia, and it is distributed, by subscription only, world-wide. As of 2003 CCTV focus is also translated into Russian language.
CCTV Focus is a technology oriented magazine and covers and discusses all the latest products, technologies and CCTV installations. CCTV Focus is prepared by engineers for engineers, led by Vlado Damjanovski a known world authority on CCTV and the author of the best-seller book “CCTV” published by Butterworth-Heinemann. CCTV Focus is the best technical reference magazine for Closed Circuit Television and is used by many manufacturers, system integrators, consultants, design engineers and installers. CCTV Focus offers to the sponsors an additional publicity through hot links on their very popular web site at www.cctvfocus.com.
CCTV Labs performs the following tasks: consultancy, design, project management and commission of CCTV systems, CCTV training and publishing.
PROFESSIONAL VIEWPOINT
Vlado
Damjanovski, Editor
CCTV Focus Magazine and CCTV Labs:
"In the
last couple of years CCTV is going through a major boom with the introduction
of digital video recorders (DVRs). This trend is continuing in 2003, but
when talking about DVRs near future, there are two things that have become
clearer to many CCTV installers and users.
Firstly, there has been a “natural” selection amongst brands in regards to system durability, stability and performance. Users and installers have now learnt that irrespective of what was claimed about the DVRs they have decided to install (pictures per second, days of storage, split-screen displays…), the most important feature is the longevity of the unit. There is simply no use having a recorder with 400 pictures per second for 16 cameras recording capability (as claimed by some manufacturers these days) if such a recorder can not run for more than a few months without breaking down. In 2003 many installers have a very good idea which machine can and which can not perform. Such longevity depends clearly on the hardware, as well as the software.
Secondly, most good DVRs have grown up to the level of looking into things beyond just fast recording and good picture quality – in helping users have intelligent machines by making their searches quicker and by having more automation in their surveillance operation. Many DVR manufacturers now start including clever algorithms in processing images, such as face and licence plate recognition; analysis of the image content, such as car stopping in a busy motorway; detecting removal of valuable objects in museums and galleries; etc, all of which is done automatically, by intelligent analysis of the live or playback video."
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