This software offers a new way to design modern video surveillance systems quickly and easy.

With IP Video System Design Tool you can:

• Increase efficiency of your security system while lowering costs finding the best camera locations
• Calculate precise camera lens focal length and viewing angles in seconds
• Check the field of view of each camera and find dead zones to increase the security level of your premises using 2D and 3D modeling
• Get estimations of required network bandwidth to shape the network video systems with any number of IP cameras and video servers
• Calculate the required HDD storage space for video archive
• Load site plan / floor plan background images from AutoCAD, Visio or Google Earth
• Copy your calculations, drawings and 3D mockups to MS Word, Excel, Visio or other software to create an excellent project documentation

The only CCTV system design software with integrated network bandwidth and storage space calculation

Only with IP Video System Design Tool you can calculate both network bandwidth and storage space for 15 camera resolutions and several compression methods, including H.264, MPEG-4 and Motion JPEG. IP Video System Design Tool enables the system designer to find optimal FPS and compression that tailors to LAN capabilities and calculate required HDD storage space. Frame size estimations are based on the result of our own compression research, thanks to our extensive knowledge of compression algorithms and wide range of real-life CCTV experimental data.

IP Video System Design Tool includes field of view calculator, lens focal length calculator, CCTV storage and bandwidth calculators, megapixel camera resolution calculator and many other CCTV tools so you can design a video surveillance system quickly, easy and professionally.

How it works?

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What people say about this software?

-”Since the first time I have used IP Video System Design Tool then I have immediately understood the potentialities of this software. Practically - using one tool only - it is possible to shape an over-IP CCTV system, starting from the calculation of the lenses up to the calculation of the cameras bandwidth and the space of video storage on disk. I believe that IP Video System Design Tool is really a powerful software whose use is essential for all those technicians that daily work in CCTV field”

Franco Talamonti, Business Development Manager, Sintel Italia SpA

-”IP Video System Design Tool is exceptional. It provides a more accurate estimate of storage because it provides the ability to compensate for different codecs and includes to ability to visually see the camera’s area-of-coverage”

Anthony Caputo, PMO,  IBM, US

-”One of the common challenges for CCTV installers and system designers is the time and often detailed knowledge required to calculate and document complex storage and bandwidth calculations the application makes it quick and simple. The ability to export this information to a spreadsheet or diagram allows professional additions to proposal documents and presentations.One of the main reasons I purchased the software is to quickly show a comparison of the different compression methods in a single table which is made simple by duplicating the existing calculations.

The lens tool is probably the best visual representation and documenting tool I have used to date and probably worth every penny of the software for this feature alone”

John O’Driscoll , Integrated Systems Technical Support Engineer,  ADI-GARDINER
www.adi-gardiner.com

- “Anyone seriously working in the CCTV bussiness should use JVSG IP Video or CCTV design tools. It is great to visualize the effects of different camera-positions and the use of different lenses. It shows even in 3D!!
By using this software it is very easy to show the installer (like we do as a CCTV wholesaler) or end-users (like a CCTV consultant will do) what the end-result will be per camera”

Norman Graafsma, CCTV system designer, FR Security BV, www.frsecurity.eu, the Netherlands.

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Who uses our software?

Hundreds of CCTV installers, designers, network engineers, security professionals,  who are involved in creating video surveillance systems, in companies large and small from 48 countries.

How to download free 45 days trial version?

Please use this download link [version 6.0 build 368, Windows Platform, ZIP, 3.9 MB]

This version includes Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Russian and Romanian localizations.

To download the previous version please use this download link or this mirror [version 5.52, Windows Platform, ZIP, 3.5 MB]

Users of versions 5.3-5.4.3 please download the latest version and update your software.

How to purchase?

You can purchase the software fast and secure using Credit Cards or PayPal via our e-commerce provider. Also it is possible to use ACH, Direct Debit, Purchase Orders, Local Bank Transfer or International Wire Transfer.

See also: Video Tutorial 1

- “I love a great piece of software and that’s what IP Video Design Tool is!
It delivers all that I need to know to produce an accurate model of the network and hardware resources required to deliver an IP based system to meet a clients needs. It allows me to fine tune the system parameters to meet a customers budget. Adjusting quality, CODEC’s, recording rates and duration to give a trade off, accurately stated, so this can be given to the client for his sign off and I can close the deal.”

Tom Kershaw, Major Account Manager - CCTV, SANYO Europe

- “Because we develop video analytics tools we have to understand the relationship between the object we’re trying to detect and track, and its surroundings. What I needed was a quick and easy way to visualize the dead zones (”I can’t even see the object”), the relative size of the object (at its furthest) to the field of view (”I can’t track the object because it’s too small”) and the relative size of the object (at its nearest) to the field of view (”I can’t even start to track the object because it moved to fast”). The IP Video System Design Tool gives me the data to answer these vital questions. Without the answers, I will end up designing a system that may not be fit for purpose”

Dr Bob Banerjee, Product Marketing Manager, IP Video, Bosch Security Systems, www.boschsecurity.com, US

- “I started to design video surveillance systems relatively recently. Shortly I realized that I needed something to better evaluate the planned design. Vendors and the web give plenty of tools (focal lengths, field of view, lens calculation, resolution comparisons, network and storage load), but I was surprised no one can show you what you will really get on the operator screen and an estimation of the effectiveness of the camera placement. JVSG IP Design Tool does all this things in a very intuitive way.”

Marco Desiati, Network Infrastructure Consultant, Anixter, Italy

- “I purchased the IP Video Design tool and like it very much. Our business is to configure and install these type of systems. I really like the focal length feature to determine what 3rd party lens will be needed”.

M. Frost, RemotePatrol, www.remotepatrol.tv, US

- “I like this software. It’s brilliant for CCTV Engineers”.

Hassan Raza, Project Manager, KDC Jedah, Korea

- “I like the idea of being able to add walls and structures. We use this software to assess which lenses will return the best field of view for a given project. Most projects come to us on drawings so we need a graphical representation of the FOV”

Project Manager, Wilson Security, AU

- “Since the first time I have used IP Video System Design Tool then I have immediately understood the potentialities of this software. Practically - using one tool only - it is possible to shape an over-IP CCTV system, starting from the calculation of the lenses up to the calculation of the cameras bandwidth and the space of video storage on disk. I believe that IP Video System Design Tool is really a powerful software whose use is essential for all those technicians that daily work in CCTV field.”

Franco Talamonti, Business Development Manager, Sintel Italia SpA, Italy

- “I use your software to decide the right number of cameras and the right type of lenses only using a plan of the premises”

Plamen Pountchev, System Engineer, CISCO

- “Anyone seriously working in the CCTV bussiness should use JVSG IP Video or CCTV design tools. It is great to visualize the effects of different camera-positions and the use of different lenses. It shows even in 3D!!

By using this software it is very easy to show the installer (like we do as a CCTV wholesaler) or end-users (like a CCTV consultant will do) what the end-result will be per camera.”

Norman Graafsma, CCTV system designer at FR Security BV, the Netherlands

- “I find this software solution to be an invaluable tool in designing a CCTV system and presenting results in a PDF format to prospective customers. The simplicity of design and use enhances my ability to inform and educate. It has already been the deciding factor in a number of my contracts.”

Glenn McKenna, SecureTech Digital Video Systems, Canada