Beta version 7.0 (December 2011, link)

Version 6.3.0.510 (March 2011. download, Japanese version )

• Fixed some compatibility issues

Version 6.3.0.503 (January 2011.  download)

• Minor user interface improvements and fixes
• Added additional site plan and OpenGL options  (Alt-F10)

Latest stable version 6.3.0.482

• Added new test object: cylinder
• Added camera names on the site plan.

• Length of walls and size of box object is shown on the Site Plan during wall or box drawing/resizing.
• Updated main program and project file icons.
• Added advanced program preferences window (Alt-F10).
• Added Czech and Polish localizations.

Latest stable version 6.2.0.450

• Possibility to set new Zero coordinate (0,0)  on the Site Plan (Right mouse click on Site Plan).
• You can rotate or move camera in 3D preview/3D view window using left and middle mouse buttons.
• You can move camera target on Site plan using red endpoint. Yellow endpoints help to modify the angle of view.
• Auto-detection of measurement system (US units or Metric based on Windows Regional settings) and preferred language.

Version 6.1.0.431

• Box rotation (Like in Microsoft Visio).
• Arrow keys to adjust positions and size of walls, boxes, and other test objects (Hold “Ctrl” to resize).
• Increased maximal CCTV camera zone size.
• Added AutoRecovery function.
• Site plan and 3D views grids are updated (every 10th line has been made brighter).
• Improved “add wall” function. The software helps to draw straight walls (angle=0, 90, 180, 270 degrees).
• To move walls, boxes, men, cars on the site plan you can use arrow keys.
• Added Visio-like commands for “zoom-in” and “zoom out” the site plan using Ctrl+Shift+MouseClick.

Version 6.0.0.405

• Added support of MS Visio-style for drawing a wall or a box (Click + drag).
• Added Site plan “Zoom”  by rotation of mouse wheel.
• Added Site plan scrolling function using middle mouse button or mouse wheel.
• Added manual “Check for updates” commands.
• Site plan is scrolled automatically when the user selects a remotely located camera.

Version 6.0.0.390

• Background loading to import site plan or floor plan blueprints in BMP / JPEG format from Autocad, Visio or Google Earth.
• New types of walls: painted walls, thin walls, thick walls
• Number plate region selection (US, EU, AU)
• Pixel per meter visualization
• Drawing speed is increased
• Many other changes

Older features:

• New test object: Car
• Wall length is shown during drawing in the status bar
• “Save   Ctrl-S” menu item in addition to “Save As…”
• Project name in the application caption
• Pixel per ft calculation
• Custom security camera zone visualization
  

• Large 3D view
• Columns selection for bandwidth&storage as well as for lens&field of view calculations
• Option to show/hide the camera zone on Site Plan and option to hide the blue test man

Please see CCTV Design Tool / IP Video Design Tool help file/Release notes section for details.

• Added “Bitrate, (kbit/s)” field for MPEG4/H.264 bandwidth calculation, now you can specify your CBR (Constant BitRate) limitation for each camera type.
• Added “Comment” field for bandwidth calculation
• Now It is possible to move and reorder bandwidth calculation columns
• On “Site plan” you can add a camera at current position using popup menu (right mouse click to show)
• Supported 1/2.5, 1/1.8, 1.25, 1/3.6-inch sensor formats
• Added new resolutions: Full HD, 4 MP
• Improved repaint functions for ATI and NVidia  video cards
• Improved object selection functions
• Updated Save/Load functions
• Added  bug reporting system
• 2D Site Plan / Floor plan added.

• You can put multiple cameras on the site plan and make a visual modeling of  the covered zones.
• You can add walls, test persons, and 3d box objects on the site plan.
• Added a visualization of a camera Monitoring (5%), Detection (10%), Recognition (50%), Identification (120%) zones.
• Added Save Picture to File command in the popup menus
• Updated the Localization Tool
• Now camera exact view area of  is displayed.

• Added view area “lower bound” in Expert Mode for exact viewing zone calculation.
• Corrected Field Of View and Vertical Angle calculation.
• Added a new View from Camera (3D Modeling).

• Added test objects (Man 1.8m): (1st – at specified distance, 2nd – at nearest visible distance, 3rd – user placed man).
• Added choice of camera format – 4:3 or 16:9.
• Lens and FOV parameters grouped in Camera, Viewing angles, Field of View groups.
• Corrected MPEG4 and H.264 bandwidth calculation for middle compression levels.
• Added a vertical viewing angle calculation.
• Added a possibility to modify the Focal Length and immediately calculate new field of view.

• Implemented completely different algorithm for MPEG4 bandwidth and storage space estimation, based on our recent MPEG4 research.
• Added 8 new MPEG-4 and H.264 resolutions.
• Implemented new way of H.264 calculation.
• Added new options for bandwidth calculation: “Image Complexity” and “Motion %” in Expert Mode (Menu/Settings/Expert Mode).
• Added new buttons for fast modification of the Focal Length and FOV Width.
• Supported several new camera PAL and NTSC resolutions, including 704×288, 1280×960, 1280×1024 and 2600×1950.
• Results of bandwidth calculations were tested with several AXIS, Panasonic network cameras and compared with data from AXIS corporation.
• Added the internal localization tool (Menu/Settings/Language/Localization Tool).

As of today, the following localizations are available for version 6:

• English
• French
• Spanish
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• German
• Italian
• Swedish
• Dutch
• Russian
• Hebrew
• Czech
• Polish
• Turkish
• Romanian
• Japanese

Your language is not listed?

If you’re interested in getting a new language, you can do it very easily without any particular knowledge.
Just do the following:

• Go to Menu/Settings/Language/Language Tool
• Modify the “value” entries in your language
• Save it as your language  and send it to us.
• We will then be very happy to integrate your new language in the immediate next version. In exchange for your help we offer a free license or a significant discount.

Just select your network camera resolution, compression level from drop-down lists, enter required FPS (frame per second) and total number of CCTV cameras and get the result.

In compare with online calculators you can calculate network bandwidth and storage space for many network cameras simultaneously. Software does not need an Internet connection and it has a really fast and friendly user interface.

Starting from version 5 it supports following camera resolutions:
320×240 (QVGA), 352×240 (CIF NTSC), 352×288 (CIF PAL), 480×360, 640×480 (VGA), 704×240, 704×288, 704×576, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1600×1200, 2048×1536 and 2600×1950.

Following compression are supported: MJPEG (Motion JPEG), MPEG-4, H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC).

Important: at the moment we offer  more comprehensive IP Video/CCTV tool called IP Video System Design Tool and we highly recommend to use this new design software instead of the calculator.

Also you can use our Free Online Lens Calculator

See also: cctv lens calculator

• more 3D test objects: new test men,  new cars, truck, trees and Rotakin test object
• support of large background images up to 4500×4500 pixels
• easy way to add windows and doors
• new options of camera zone visualization
• group operations on the site plan
• user interface improvements
• easy import of additional 3D models (Business Licenses)
• direct import of AutoCAD *.dwg and *.dxf drawings (Business Licenses)

All users who purchased IP Video System Design Tool in May 2011 or later will be able to get the upgrade for free.

You can take part in beta in Beta testing

In the further versions:

• a monitor screen with  3D views from all cameras
• direct printing (File/Print)
• direct export to PDF
• VSD import
• export of large Site plans in high resolution

Already added in v.6

• List of most recent project files (MRU list)
• Visio style drawing

Please send us your wish lists to support<AT>jvsg.com or jvsg<AT>ieee.org

3D CCTV camera field of view modeling using Floor Plans

IP Video System Design Tool  helps to choose right camera installation parameters, check cctv coverage and to prepare CCTV diagram layout for CCTV project documentation.

In the future we plan to improve some drawing functions so our cctv layout software will be able replace in many cases such popular cctv drawing software like Visio and AutoCAD.

All minor updates and fixes are free. All the users who purchased the software 90 days prior to a major update will be able to get such update for free.

Digital Video Surveillance and Security (Book by Anthony Caputo, 2010)

“If you google “lens calculator” a number comes up for you to use or you can choose the IP Video System Design Tool, a small undiscovered gem…” (p.174)

Recent Media Coverage

IP Video System Design Made Easy (IPFocus Magazine,  2011)

Tech Talk by Bob Dolph (Security Sales & Integration, 2010)
This month I have selected a software tool that can be very valuable when you are trying to professionally specify and lay out CCTV systems…

JVSG’s software offers an easy and convenient way to place CCTV cameras in a virtual 3D world (SecurityPark, 2010)

The planning of CCTV or IP video system requires a lot of time and energy.

CCTV design and modeling software for CCTV engineers (Software For Enterprise, 2010)

As a CCTV expert / engineer, whenever you’re requested to provide some consultation on ways to position CCTVs in a certain environment, how would you go about doing it? …

CCTV Community

Network Camera Bandwidth Calculator (blog.use-ip.co.uk)

JVSG have developed a great software tool which helps you to calculate the bandwidth needed for network CCTV cameras.

Cool CCTV Design Software (security-camera-warehouse.com)

Here is really neat software you can use as a tool to develop or try and help blue-print your own CCTV setup.

IP Video System Design Tool: a good help for an inside sales of the B2B channel (B2Bchannelblog.com)

In this post I introduce the IP Video System Design Tool…

http://b2bchannelblog.com/2011/02/19/ip-video-system-design-tool-a-good-help-for-an-inside-sales-of-the-b2b-ict-channel/

Planung Videoüberwachung (video-sicherheit.net, German)

Mit dem IP Video System Design Tool von JVSG können professionelle Videoüberwachungsanlagen (CCTV-Systeme) geplant werden…

I want to write/blog about IP Video System Design Tool, can I get some assets?

We would be delighted to get a mention in your publication. Please contact us if there is anything we can do to help.

Thanks so much, your help is much appreciated!

Here’s a logo you can use:

Here’s a program icon:

You can use any screenshots from this website or make new screenshots yourself.

Please, contact us to get a free evaluation/demo license of IP Video System Design Tool.

Also you can download a trial version using this button bellow:

• You help us to find bugs and errors in our software or website or give us a good advice how to improve our software (Please mention you are interested in a discount).
• You represent academic organizations, like CCTV training courses.

To get a free license key, you can do one of the following:

• We need translations of our software and web site into several languages. We strongly need translation of  a new version 7 into several lanuages(DE, ES, FR, ES, PT, …). In order to translate localization files please download and install the latest beta version into “C:\cctvtool\”  folder, run and go to Menu/Settings/Language/Localization Tool, translate all the text between ” ” and save the localization (*.ini) file.  Also we need a translation of our product page to Japanese and Arabic language. For such help we’ll send you a license FREE of charge. Please contact us if you can translate the software or help file.
• If you are a do-gooder of any sort like secular non-profit organization or charity, please email us with a short blurb and we’ll send you a license, FREE of charge.
• If you are a CCTV/IP Video/technical blogger or journalist willing to write us up (honest reviews are the most useful to us) email us a short blurb with the link to your site/blog and we’ll send you a license, FREE of charge, so that you can evaluate our IP Video / CCTV Design Tool properly.
• A note to university students and professors: we currently do not offer free licenses to universities, but we’ll be happy to offer you 50% off any orders of 10 or more licenses. Let us know if you’re interested and we’ll set up a discount code for you. Another way to get a free license is to add a direct link to our website from your university or school website (.edu domain name).

If you don’t fit in any of the four buckets above, you can buy a standard business license for $195 or discounted single-user personal license for just $97.

Please email us to get more details and instructions  (help@jvsg.com)