The CCTV industry continues to grow.

The last years most important boosting factor is the growing interest and demand for IP-based camera surveillance.
The technological development is far ahead of the commercial adaptation by the security industry. The market has reacted fast and with enthusiasm. The
security industry has been surprisingly slow to pick this up and of the verge of being dismissive of this technology. Lately however the security industry has realised the potential market that IP-camera surveillance offers.
Missing knowledge about the technology is part of the slow pick up rate of demand from the market.
This applies not least to security installers.
Against this background, Detektor International introduces the Digital Network Camera Surveillance School. In four parts and six chapters, Detektor will describe the different components and aspects of digital networked video surveillance.

What is a digital network?

Modern digital technology allows different sectors, e.g. telecom, data, radio and television, to be merged together. This occurrence, commonly known as convergence, is happening on a global scale and is drastically changing the way in which both people and devices communicate. At the center of this process, forming the backbone and making convergence possible, are IP-based networks. The convergence is on going in all industries right now, and the security and surveillance industry is gaining tremendous benefits from joining.

Services and integrated consumer devices for purposes such as telephony, entertainment, security or personal computing are constantly being developed, designed and converged towards a communication standard that is independent from the underlying physical connection. The cable network, for instance, first designed for transmitting television to the consumer, can now also be utilized for sending e-mail, surfing the Web or even monitoring a network camera sending live pictures from another continent. Furthermore, these features are also available over other physical networks, e.g. telephone, mobile phone, satellite and computer networks.

This basic tutorial introduces the central components of IP-based network technology, and in doing so it will demonstrate the tremendous benefits this new technology has to offer the security and surveillance market.