IP Video Security Guide
IP Video Security Guide
This guide is designed to help security professionals in the design and management of network-based video security systems. It highlights the importance of considering features, performance, scalability, flexibility, cost, and future expansion.
Pelco is a leading manufacturer of video and security systems, known for high-quality products and exceptional customer service. They offer a wide range of products and are committed to open-source systems and customer support.
Video over IP provides enhanced control, flexibility, and integration capabilities compared to traditional analog systems, maintaining network integrity while ensuring high security.
The transition from analog to digital video systems involves DVRs and NVRs, offering improved storage and management capabilities. Key components include disk systems, RAID, and storage solutions like NAS and SAN.
Discusses various video formats such as NTSC/PAL and CIF, and the differences between digital and optical zoom, as well as resolution considerations.
Explores how video security systems affect network performance and the importance of infrastructure design and topology.
Covers essential network protocols like multicasting, IGMP, PoE, and redundancy measures to ensure reliable video transmission.
Details on configuring alarms and understanding camera technology, including lens types and compatibility.
Explains lighting requirements, the impact of AGC, signal-to-noise ratio, and differences between CCD and CMOS sensors.
Guidance on controlling and configuring PTZ cameras, including enclosure options for different environments.
Discusses full image vs. conditional analyzing methods and types of compression for video storage.
Highlights important considerations when selecting an IP camera for a security system.
Offers advice on investing in a network-based video security system, emphasizing the importance of a comprehensive approach.
Pelco provides extensive training through its Global Training Institute, offering courses and resources to help professionals succeed in deploying video security systems.
Explores NAS and SAN as solutions for video storage, addressing issues like drive fragility and offering centralized, expandable storage.
QoS is crucial for managing network resources, ensuring priority for real-time traffic like video streams.
IP cameras offer secured transmission of video data, reducing costs and improving security by centralizing administration.
IP cameras integrate a camera and a computer, supporting over-the-network software upgrades and end-to-end security.
Describes the physical connections, network card functions, and traffic management for IP cameras.
IP cameras can connect to wireless networks, and multicasting reduces network traffic by allowing multiple viewers to access a single video stream.
Protocols manage multicast traffic, with UDP preferred for video due to its low overhead.
PoE allows cameras to receive power through network cables, with redundancy crucial for maintaining connectivity.
IP cameras can trigger alarms based on motion detection, requiring network infrastructure to handle increased data flow.
IP cameras combine lenses, image sensors, and DSP technology to capture and process video.
Overview of camera technologies that enhance image quality by managing focus, exposure, and white balance.
The camera lens focuses light onto the image sensor, with the iris controlling light entry.
Camera lenses manipulate light for optimal image capture, with the iris controlling light entry.
Describes standard, wide angle, and telephoto lenses, and their compatibility with image sensor sizes.
The iris adjusts light entry, affecting depth of field, while optical zoom changes focal length for magnification.
The F-stop measures the lens iris size, influencing light passage and image quality.
Determined by focal length and sensor size, affecting the camera's angle of view.
Interlaced video sends alternating lines, while progressive scan offers sharper images.
Camera selection should consider light sensitivity to ensure quality images in low-light conditions.
Automatic Gain Control increases sensitivity in low light, with Signal-to-Noise Ratio indicating noise levels.
CCD sensors offer better low-light performance, while CMOS sensors are cost-effective.
Higher resolutions provide clearer images, essential for security applications.
Bandwidth describes data transfer capacity, influenced by frame rate, resolution, and compression.
PTZ cameras allow remote control of positioning and zoom, enhancing surveillance capabilities.
PTZ telemetry rarely exceeds 5Kbps, with image rate adjustments optimizing data streams.
IP cameras can generate up to 30 images per second, with higher rates preferred for better video quality.
Enclosures protect cameras from environmental conditions, with NEMA ratings defining their suitability.
Video compression is essential due to large file sizes, with MPEG-4 and H.264 preferred for efficiency.
Considerations include light availability, outdoor use, area size, and image clarity.
Pelco emphasizes optics and imager technology for high-quality video in challenging conditions.
Pelco offers a wide range of cameras and design services, supported by the Pelco Global Training Institute.
Catalog excerpts
Schneider Electric IP Video Security Guide Global Leaders in Video and Security Systems
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Since 1996, Pelco has provided security professionals with technical and product training. The Pelco Global Training Institute offers instructor-led courses at three training centers in North America, including Pelco's headquarters in Clovis, CA, and seven training centers located internationally. e of Contents 1.0 | THE PURPOSE OF THIS GUIDE 1.0 2.0 | ABOUT PELCO 2.0 3.0 | BENEFITS OF VIDEO OVER NETWORK 3.0 Why Video Over IP 3.0 Pelco Knows Security 3.1 Pelco Knows Security Over IP 3.1 A Simple Question 3.1 Your Partner Every Step Of The Way 3.2 4.0 | INTRO TO NETWORK VIDEO SECURITY 4.0 DVR/NVR 4.0...
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9.0 | Alarms Configuring Alarms 10^ | INTRODUCTION TO IMAGAING SYSTEMS Camera Technology 11.0 | LENSES How a Lens Works Lens Design Types of Lenses Camera & Lens Compatibility There are Two Basic Types of Zoom Lenses Iris The Influence of the F-stop Understanding Focal Length What is Field of View? Interlace or Progressive Scan: What's the Difference? 12.0 | CAMERA FEATURES Understanding Lighting Requirements of IP Cameras The Impact of AGC Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) ESC Image Sensors: CCD vs. CMOS Resolution CIF Bandwidth 13.0 | PTZ CAMERA CONTROL & CONFIGURATION Camera Control (PTZ) Camera...
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1.0 I The Purpose of This Guide The Purpose of This Guide The Video Security Industry is growing and ever-changing, offering a wealth of opportunity for today's security professionals. Greater responsibility is being placed on IT professionals to design, integrate, and administer their video security components without compromising network integrity or performance. Today's converging network technologies require increased bandwidth, Quality of Service for prioritized traffic, and the transmission of all IP-based technologies over a common network. Before setting up your own system, certain factors...
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About Pelc About Pelco Pelco is a world leader in the design, development and manufacturing of video and security systems and equipment ideal for any industry. With a long and prestigious history of offering high-quality products and exceptional customer service, Pelco has become the most sought-after product supplier in the security industry. Operating from the industry's largest manufacturing complex, Pelco produces the most respected offering of discreet camera domes, high speed camera positioning systems, and enclosures, megapixel cameras, video matrix systems, next-generation digital video...
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0 I Benefits of Video Over Network With ever-more-powerful networks, growing bandwidth capabilities and advances in video compression algorithms, delivering professional-level security solutions over IT infrastructures is a reality like never before. And Pelco is leading the way. Leading the way with cutting-edge technologies and products. Leading the way with an unparalleled understanding of the challenges of video over IP. And leading the way with more than twenty years dedicated to delivering solutions specifically designed to meet the needs of security professionals. Why Video Over IP The...
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Leading the way with cutting-edge technologies and products. Leading the way with an unparalleled understanding of the challenges of video over IP. And leading the way with more than twenty years dedicated to delivering solutions specifically designed to meet the needs of security professionals. Pelco Knows Security For more than twenty years, Pelco has been dedicated to designing, developing and bringing to market tailored solutions for video security professionals. We understand security, its challenges and its opportunities as no one else can. We understand it because it is who we are. Pelco...
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Your Partner Every Step Of The Way Pelco understands that your security is much more than a network camera. And we know that there is a lot of information to digest. That is why for more than ten years, Pelco has dedicated itself to helping educate the industry that it serves through the Pelco Global Training Institute. On a daily basis, PGTI hosts IT integrators, administrators, dealers, end users and others for free training in video security at Pelco headquarters. From product and technology overview to in-depth network security and certification classes, PGTI is a unique asset only Pelco...
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ucnon to Network Video Security The video security industry has been in the process of transitioning from a mechanical, analog system of video recorded on VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) tapes to a dynamic, digitized system of video stored on a network. The first stage of this evolution was the replacement of the VCR by the DVR (Digital Video Recorder). The cameras were still analog but the storage device was digital. The DVR introduced video stored to hard disk rather than individual VCR tapes or magnetic tape libraries. This reduced the footprint of the video storage system in many large corporations...
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The video security industry has been in the process of transitioning from a mechanical, analog system of video recorded on VCR (Video Cartridge Recorder) tapes to a dynamic, digitized system of video stored on a network. The first stage of this evolution was the replacement of the VCR by the DVR (Digital Video Recorder). Real-Time Storage and Archive Storage Systems comprise of more than just the hard drives. NAS (Network Attached Storage) uses the flexibility of the network to make high capacity storage available directly from the network. An alternative technology of SAN (Storage Area Networks)...
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This last option gives the benefits of high speed and reliable access to rcent video while taking advantage of the cost savings by using a storage farm for the video that is not needed for instant access. The issues surrounding video storage technologies and storage capacity are the fragility of the drive system. Hard drives are very susceptible to environmental influence. Heat, dust, and vibration are all factors that can cause a hard drive to fail. NAS (Network Attached Storage) and SAN (Storage Area Network) technologies can address some of these issues but at a much higher cost. NAS is a...
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