Author: Anthony Caputo
ISBN No: 9780-12420-0425
Review date: 08/12/2025
No of pages: 440
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Publisher URL:
http://store.elsevier.com/Digital-Video-Surveillance-and-Security/Anthony-Caputo/isbn-9780124200425/
Year of publication: 19/05/2014
Brief:
Digital Video Surveillance and Security, second edition
price
£41.38
The April issue of Professional Security featured a UK consultant’s guide to electronic security systems, titled Integrated electronic Security: A Layered Approach. Digital Video Surveillance and Security, second edition, by Anthony Caputo, is an American equivalent. It’s much longer but has similar welcome messages that simply by fitting CCTV – or a particular product such as a megapixel cameras or products by a particular manufacturer – you prevent or solve crime or whatever it is you want. As Caputo writes, with megapixel cameras, the issues are bandwidth and storage, though he does say that megapixels will become ‘the premiere solution’ for digital video systems. He adds: “Remember that the camera is just a piece of the overall solution. Consider the networking infrastructure and storage costs when deciding on the megapixel size and quantity.” While the book covers plenty of ground, it has handy ‘chapter lessons’ . Caputo takes you through cameras, commissioning encoders, and is frank enough to write about ‘what usually can go wrong’. While that can be something as drastic as no video, he adds that ‘it’s rarely anything so obscure that it eludes you for long’. Caputo goes on to wireless systems, site surveys, management software, storage and – last but not least – actually doing a project and integrating the video with motion detection, alarms and access control, and central monitoring. While technology is technology, whatever continent you’re on, the case studies he gives are North American.
Digital Video Surveillance and Security, second edition, by Anthony Caputo, published by Butterworth-Heinemann, paperback, ISBN 9780-12420-0425, 440 pages, £41.38. Visit www.elsevier.com.
