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The CCTV Project Planner

CCTV implementations face a lack of product standardization, a confusing bidding process, and a limiting market structure. Here is expert guidance on critical considerations about bandwidth, frame rate, image quality and more

By Jason Cowling

Taken together, a solid understanding of the CCTV market and its effects on systems-level planning, along with common systems-level issues, provide a fundamental background for the successful implementation of video systems. Each of these individual and key areas mentioned throughout can be explored in depth for greater technical expertise, but a general awareness will greatly reduce costs and improve security through efficient system functionality. In this way, managing a video system implementation can be successful for end-users who have a wide berth of security responsibilities, and for those who work only infrequently with CCTV.

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