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CCTV Project Planner

To design CCTV video surveillance systems, it is always good to use special CCTV project planner software.

CCTV project planner software typically includes:  bandwidth and storage estimator, CCTV lens selector, field of view calculator, focal length calculator. Many manufacturers offer product selection guides to choose a proper model from the list of equipment (like lens or cameras) they offer.

The use of project planner software can help to ensure you are investing optimal amount of money in your CCTV equipment and your future CCTV system is going to fulfill all project requirements.

JVSG CCTV Project Planner. Focal length and field of view calculation

Our software helps you to save money by making an optimal choice and placement of CCTV cameras and getting a correct estimation of video storage volume. All this goes a long way to ensure that you are investing in the right type of equipment which will server its intended purpose and gives proper return of investment in the long run.

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Five Reasons Why You Should Use JVSG Tool For Video Surveillance Planning

 

Attract More Customers

  • In today’s competitive environment, having new customers constantly is one of the keys of success. With this software tool you can make professional quotes with proper sketches, realistic test objects, 3D images, mock ups etc, which leave a lasting impression on your clients.
  • Explain to your customers that they can reduce costs by optimum utilization of cameras where they can get better utilization of the hardware and also reduce blind spots and coverage gaps thus increasing level of security.
  • When you are answering queries related to your product, you can quickly glance through the details while your client is on call.
    All these factors go a long way to earn and retain new clients along the way.

Design video surveillance systems quickly and easy

  • “A picture is worth a thousand words” goes the old and equally wise saying. It is true that most human beings learn much quicker when aided by visuals rather than pure text as that is more in tune with the human psychology of learning.
    Our program takes full advantage of this concept and displays the information in an intuitive and easy to remember manner. So instead of remembering commands and functions you will easily remember that yellow color indicates areas where it is possible to recognize people, red color indicates areas suitable for people identification, green areas for detection and so forth.

Please read Pixel Density, PPF, and PPF in Video Surveillance article.

Pixel Density, PPM, and PPF in CCTV and video surveillance

 

  • The cut, copy, paste and move functions are very familiar to all PC users and come naturally to them, hence do not require any learning curve. The processes also follow the natural logical pattern so say for example if you have to insert a window in a wall, simply drag the window onto the position and it will get inserted in the wall just like building blocks.
  • There is a 30 level Undo function which helps you to go back in case you seem to be on the wrong design path, thus tracing your steps backwards one at a time.

Encourage customers to spend more

Cost savings is often a priority but not always so, especially in the area of security. So when your customers are not convinced why they should purchase more and/or better cameras than the ones they want, you can always explain visually that how better cameras can lead to better identification of people and corresponding increase in security.

It might seem a small increase in percentage of expenditure at the outset but it helps to save lot more money in the long run by providing better security and preventing many possible mishappenings.

Increase Customer Loyalty

Getting new customers is just one side of the coin; if these customers are not satisfied and not retained, it will just be useless to keep acquiring new customers when they do not return. Hence building a loyal customer base is the sure short way to success.
IP Video System Design Tool software helps to keep your customers satisfied by taking care of all their requirements. Communication is vital in any business transaction and any gap or misunderstanding in the same leads to loss of time, reputation and the client itself.

Hence you can always use this software to provide the best demos and make sure that communication is complete in all respects such as understanding their needs, aspiration and demands.

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Do you still need any more proof as to why should you invest in JVSG tool?

Just click here and read user reviews and comments.

92% of customers who took part in the recent customer survey specified that they  will recommend the program (64% choose Very Likely and 28% chosen Likely).

Case Study: LENSEC uses IP Video System Design Tool to easily design large scale surveillance systems and understand client requirements in a better way through 3D visual models…

White Paper:  From CCTV Pre-visualization of Design to Fruition – by Jay C. McCormick  PSP, CAHSO, ESCO Communications

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Learning CCTV Compression

In case if you digitize a signal from standard CCTV camera you can get a digital stream with more than 150 Mbps (Mega bits per second), but such a stream contains a lot of  redundant information.

All image compression algorithms are divided in two groups namely:

  • lossless
  • lossy

Most CCTV compression algorithms used in CCTV are lossy compressions, because such algorithms offer higher compression ratio (the ratio of the resulting video file size compared with the original file size).

Video compression algorithms are divided in two groups:

  • Frame based compression (JPEG, Wavelet, JPEG 2000)
  • Stream based compression (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MPEG-7)

Usage of stream based compression algorithms enables greater savings on storage space and network bandwidth but as a trade off these algorithms require higher computing performance.

Four of the most common type of compressions widely used in CCTV are:

IP Video System Design Tool can help you to see how choosing of compression methods can affect required network bandwidth and CCTV storage space, so you can clearly see the difference in terms of compression ratio.

Motion JPEG is very popular compression format. MJPEG fits very well for video archives because of its frame based nature.

MPEG4 can be 3 times more efficient in terms of compression ratio in compare with Motion JPEG.
But MPEG4 is a bad choice for systems with frame rate less than 5-6 frames per second.

H.264 can be 50-100% more efficient in compare with MPEG-4
MPEG-4 and H.264 are ideal for CCTV  systems with limited but stable bandwidth.

JPEG2000 is similar to JPEG, but uses wavelet transform instead of discreetest-cosine-transform (DCT) of JPEG. JPEG2000 offers a better image quality on higher compression levels. Another great advantage is a possibility to decompress lower resolution representation of the image. This feature is good for motion detection algorithms. However JPEG2000 compression needs way higher CPU performance, than JPEG.

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