In the near future we plan to add to this section new articles, tips, tricks and in-depth information about CCTV lenses, compression, IP video design practices, networking principles and video storage.

On our website you can find IP video and CCTV glossary where you can find explanation of widely used words, like  focal lenght of a lens, camera format, auto iris,  H.264 and many others.

Also you can find here articles about field of view calculation, wide angle lens, cctv compression, network bandwidth and cctv storage calculation and more.

Bellow you can find most interesting external CCTV design resources:

There is a document called “CCTV Operational Requirements Manual” from UK Home Office Scientific Development Branch. This manual helps to understand a concept of recognition, detection and identification used in IP Video System Design Tool.

There is a very interesting and useful video from FBI. This video explains how to avoid common CCTV design problems such as using wrong camera lenses, installing cameras in the wrong locations, using low FPS and wrong compression and much more:

Bob Dolph (Security Sales and Integration) has written an article about this video.

Here is a preliminary version of a video tutorial on how to add a site plan to IP Video System Design Tool, find optimal camera locations, calculate camera lenses and required camera resolution.