Sony SSC-DC374 1/3" High Res Color Security Camera

• High quality and high sensitivity - 1/3 type IT DSP CCD with Super HAD™ technology
• High resolution - 480 TV Lines
• Minimum Illumination of 0.8 Lux @ F1.2 (50 IRE)
• On/Off Backlight Switchable
• Turbo AGC (up to 24 dB) for clear, distinguishable images
• Accepts DC Servo lenses

How to Connect CCTV Cameras to the Internet

If you've ever been on the road and wanted to see what was going on at home but didn't have a way, now you do. All you have to do is to connect a few CCTV cameras to the Internet and you can monitor as many rooms in your home or office from any computer that's online, anywhere in the world.

1. 
   
   Step1
   Buy a few closed-circuit television cameras that can be connected to your computer. Some older CCTV cameras will allow you to connect only to a VCR for recording. However, most of the newer ones will allow you to use a digital video recorder, or a computer hard drive. Just make sure to purchase a camera set that can connect directly to your computer. This is usually done through a USB cable.
2. 
   
   Step2
   Sign up to HomeCamera.com. Do this once you have the cameras installed and configured with your laptop. This service is free as of 2009 while it is in beta testing, but the company plans to charge $29.95 a year starting in 2010. Download the software and follow the instructions for installation.
3. 
   
   Step3
   Configure HomeCamera.com software. This is a simple process. You log into the software and assign a name, such as "living room," "entrance," or "study," to each camera that you wish to monitor. You will then be able to sign into any Web-enabled device such as a personal digital assistant, cell phone or computer and see exactly what the cameras are seeing, via the HomeCamera.com website.
4. 
   
   Step4
   Share the camera feeds with friends or family if you wish. If you'd like you can also set up the cameras as motion detectors, and you will receive an email or text message along with a photo every time someone walks by the cameras. In addition, the website can be used as a recording device and can take pictures every few minutes and upload them to the HomeCamera.com servers.
5. 
   
   Step5
   Get creative. CCTV cameras connected to the Internet can be used for a lot more than just home security. For example you can use them to watch wildlife, for distance learning, video conferencing, and more.

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One crime solved for every 1,000 CCTV cameras, senior officer claims

Just one crime is solved a year by every 1,000 CCTV cameras in Britain's largest force area, it was claimed today.

A senior Scotland Yard officer, Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville, warned police must do more to head off a crisis in public confidence over the use of surveillance cameras.

DCI Neville said officers need to improve their results to make captured images count against criminals.

He said there are more than a million CCTV cameras in London and the Government has spent £500 million on the crime-fighting equipment.

But he admitted just 1,000 crimes were solved in 2008 using CCTV images as officers fail to make the most of potentially vital evidence.

Writing in an internal report, Mr Neville said people are filmed many times every day and have high expectations when they become victims of crime.

But he suggested the reality is often disappointing as in some cases officers fail to bring criminals to justice even after they are caught on camera and identified.

DCI Neville said CCTV played a role in capturing just eight out of 269 suspected robbers across London in one month.

Critics of Britain's so-called ''surveillance state'' will seize on DCI Neville's comments as further evidence CCTV is not working in the fight against crime.

The Government is considering whether every camera should be registered on centrally-held CCTV maps.

Earlier this year a Home Office report found camera schemes have a ''modest impact'' on reducing crime.

Researchers found cameras were most effective in preventing vehicle thefts and vandalism in car parks.

Some local authorities have been forced to make freedom of information requests to police forces to try and work out if CCTV cameras are effective.

The Metropolitan Police is piloting a scheme, known as Operation Javelin, to improve the use of images from existing cameras.

Staff in 11 boroughs have formed dedicated Visual Images Identification and Detection Offices (VIIDO).

They collect and label images before passing them to a central circulation unit that distributes them to officers, forces and the media.

Some 5,260 images have been viewed so far this year with identification made in more than 1,000 cases.

DCI Neville said the scheme should be expanded to force-wide as officers make the investigation of CCTV evidence as professional as fingerprints and DNA.

David Davis, the former shadow home secretary said it is ''entirely unsurprising'' that the report highlights some shortcomings of CCTV.

''It should provoke a major and long overdue rethink on where the Home Office crime prevention budget is being spent," he said.

''CCTV leads to massive expense and minimum effectiveness. It creates a huge intrusion on privacy, yet provides little or no improvement in security.

''The Metropolitan Police has been extraordinarily slow to act to deal with the ineffectiveness of CCTV, something true both in London and across the country.''

Detective Superintendent Michael McNally, who commissioned the report, said improvements in the use of CCTV can be made.

He told Sky News: ''There are some concerns, and that's why we have a number of projects that are on-going at the moment.

''CCTV, we recognise, is a really important part of investigation and prevention of crime, so how we retrieve that from the individual CCTV pods is really quite important.''

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: ''The Metropolitan Police is currently the only police service to employ this method of CCTV tracking.''

Paris to quadruple number of CCTV cameras

Paris will quadruple the number of closed-circuit police cameras in its streets by the end of next year, after President Nicolas Sarkozy's promise to emulate London in an attempt to track crime and terrorism threats.

By Henry Samuel in Paris
Published: 1:47PM BST 16 Oct 2008

While the Paris metro and rail networks already operate around 9,500 CCTV devices, police have only 330 at their disposal to survey outside public areas. The new plan, dubbed "A Thousand Cameras for Paris", will raise that number to more than 1,200 – with most installed in high-risk areas and outside railway and underground stations.

The figure is still small compared with London, where each citizen is caught on average several hundred times a day. Britain has about four million closed-circuit security cameras compared with France's 340,000.

The CCTV drive follows Mr Sarkozy's pledge last autumn to follow London's surveillance lead. "I am very impressed by the efficiency of the British police thanks to this network of cameras," the French president said. "In my mind, there is no contradiction between respecting individual freedoms and the installation of cameras to protect everyone's security."

Until now, large meeting places such as the Place de la République, where strike protests usually start, and the busy Champs-Elysées were already heavily equipped.

But police want to beef up surveillance outside the Gare du Nord – where the London to Paris Eurostar terminates – the scene of several gang battles in recent months.

It will increase on the Champ-de-Mars – the area around the Eiffel tower – where violent youths recently attacked a group of students celebrating the end of their baccalaureate exams.

More cameras will be installed in the 19th arrondissement, where a Jewish youth was killed in June in an apparent anti-Semitic attack, as well as in the 18th arrondissement – home to Montmartre and the Sacré Coeur.

Paris's police chief will present the plan to city councillors next week. The capital's Socialist mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, long opposed to CCTV, recognised its effectiveness in fighting crime in his campaign for re-election this year.

"The objective is not to cover every road, every corner of the city, but to put video means where common sense dictates," one of the plan's authors told Le Figaro, which leaked the details.

Many of the current cameras are so low-resolution that the images are unusable in a court of law, local politicians say. Interior minister Michèle Alliot-Marie will draw up a charter to go with the new generation of cameras, limiting to 30 the days recorded images can be stored. There will be strict controls on who is allowed to view them.

French police also hope a mini spy-in-the-sky drone the size of a toy glider will help them track rioters and fight crime.

Uk has more cctv than anywhere else

Britain has become a bureaucratic and authoritarian state watched over by a quarter of the world's CCTV cameras, a study of Labour's decade in power claims.

National debt is running at £175,000 per household, five times more than thought, while each year the Government has passed 3,500 regulations, along with 100,000 pages of rules and explanation.

'The Rotten State of Britain' claims to be the first "deeply researched factual account" of Tony Blair's and Gordon Brown's time in office.

The author Eammon Butler, a director of the leading think tank the Adam Smith Institute, claimed that his book had been turned down by two publishers because of the "unconventional" nature of the content.

He said: "A new form of centralised government and authoritarian government has been created that is worse than ever in Britain's recent history."

Among the claims in the book are that Britain has a quarter of the world's CCTV cameras, the largest of any country and that taxes have risen by 51 per cent since 1997.

Mr Butler also claims national debt is running at £4.6 billion, or £175,000 per household, not £729 billion (£29,000 per household) as the Government claims.

In the audit of 10 years of the Labour Government, Dr Butler says that there are now 1,406 litter wardens and dog catchers who have been given powers to levy on the spot fines.

Dr Butler said he wrote the book because he got "so angry about the way that they have no concept of the rule of law".

Dr Butler found that in just one year – 2006/7 – half of the 722,464 DNA samples collected by the police came from children, including a seven-month year old girl.

One in nine hospital patients picks up an infection during their stay on a ward, while the total cost of outstanding claims against the NHS is £9.2 billion, Dr Butler claimed.

He said that 30,000 of the 200,000 people who die of cancer and strokes each year would survive "if they lived anywhere else in northern Europe".

Dr Butler also claimed in the book that the number of people receiving state benefits has risen from 17 million people in 1997 to 21 million people by 2007.

He found that nearly six million families receive £16 billion-worth of child credit. Dr Butler said: "It's ridiculously high number of beneficiaries for something aimed to help the poorest."

The result is that some families would be better off if the parents did not live together.

He said: "Three-quarters of the poorest households would be better off splitting up. And when money is tight, that is exactly what happens."

Survey reveals more CCTV cameras per head of population than almost anywhere else in London

THERE are more CCTV cameras in Redbridge than in almost any other London borough.

A survey by civil liberties group Big Brother Watch discovered that out of the 32 boroughs, only Wandsworth has more council-run cameras per head of population than Redbridge.

From their control room in Ilford, council operators have 2.8 cameras to watch every 1,000 people in the borough, and the borough’s total of 668 is the third highest number of any in the city.

Earlier this year, the council's decision to install 11 new cameras along George Lane in South Woodford was met with criticism from local business owners and shoppers.

Joe Federico, co-owner of Little Woodford Cafe in George Lane, said: “If they are going to fine people just for parking for one minute in George Lane it's going to be very bad for business. I can't understand the logic behind it really.

“The council might make money out of fining people but they're going to lose money on rates as you're going to have more empty units because shops will suffer.”

Neighbouring Waltham Forest council has just 74 cameras – or only 0.3 for every 1,000 people, while Newham has 204, which equates to 0.8 per 1,000.

Concern has been raised about the fact that many of the cameras may in fact not be working at any one time, and earlier this month police said that cameras on the Orchard Estate had failed to record the mugging of a man who was attacked by 16 robbers.

Redbridge Council’s cabinet member for community safety, Vanessa Cole, said: “I would say that residents have been the driving force for CCTV. All the surveys conducted for the last four years or so have put crime prevention and the fear of crime at the top of residents' lists of priorities.

"Our CCTV operators are trained to a very high degree and you will know that the borough commander has praised staff in their help in regard to several serious incidents, the murder in Ilford, the culprits were caught within 15 minutes of the incident, saving approximately £45,000 in police time and costs."

A spokesman for Big Brother Watch said: “Local councils across Britain are creating enormous networks of CCTV surveillance at great expense, but the evidence for the ability of CCTV to deter or solve crimes is sketchy at best.”

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ROCHDALE has twice as many CCTV cameras as Bury and Oldham, research has revealed.

There are currently 170 cameras covering the borough, with the majority in Rochdale town centre, Freehold, Lower Falinge and College Bank.

Footage from the cameras, which record 24 hours a day, is kept for one month and is often used to help convict criminals and produced as evidence during court cases.

But campaign group Big Brother Watch, which released the report after sending a Freedom of Information request to every council in the country, claims the network is expensive and ineffective.

Director Alex Deane said: "People in Rochdale will rightly be wondering why they're being watched so much more than their neighbours in Bury and Oldham, and why their council decided to spend so much more of their taxpayer money on CCTV.

"The Metropolitan Police have said that only one crime is solved for every 1,000 cameras and there is no evidence to suggest that this kind of heavy surveillance is as good as spending the money getting officers back on the beat."

Despite the installation of each camera going through a strict-decision making process the council could not release the cost for the running and maintenance of the system.

Councillor Ted Flynn, cabinet member for Community Safety, said: "Our fixed cameras were bought and installed many years ago.

"The price of our cameras varies greatly and so does the installation costs. There's a strict decision-making process that assesses the needs of an area before deciding on what type of camera is needed to make sure it's an effective and worthwhile investment.

"Our preference is to use mobile CCTV that can be deployed to our crime hotspot areas in response to a sudden spike in incidents.

"Nowadays we tend to use these cameras a lot more and find that it's been very successful in helping us to reduce crime and make hotspot areas safer by deterring and catching troublemakers.

"We also know that their presence is a great reassurance to the public."

A new code of practice was launched by private company Safe Guard, which controls the majority of CCTV cameras in Rochdale, at the end of last year.

The code asked the police to submit a report every two years, with the first one expected in 2011, indicating the impact CCTV has had on crime, a comparison of crime in areas without CCTV and carry out formal consultation with business premises.

It will be the first report of its kind to be published.

Superintendent Martin Greenhalgh said: "CCTV forms an integral part of our investigation process.

"It is a tool that is used on a daily basis for lines of enquiry and is something we welcome.

"Our cameras are predominantly used in town centre locations and provide reassurance to the community. They can help in reducing crime and disorder and support investigations.

"We take crime fighting seriously and the cameras across the borough help us in doing this effectively."

Avermedia NV5000 120 Frames Per Second Video Capture Card with Surveillance Software

Product Description

Hybrid Network Video Recorder (Accepts both CCTV/Analog as well as IP Cameras)

Advanced MPEG4 / MPEG4 H.264 / Motion JPG

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Supports Direct burn to DVD-RW/CD-RW (via Nero Ultra v6.0+)

Easy setup and usage

Point of sale integration (ANSI ASCII Serial output based cash registers)

Attention metric designed to measure the attention span of security officers

Intelligent Status Notification (Alert you on HDD space, CPU load, Memory usage, etc)

Compact mode for cleaner interface

Smart Voice detection recording

Multiple events alarm alert

Easy Search and Playback: Step by step on date, hour, minute

Bookmark playback for easier retrieval

Dispatch Server shares internet access loading

Remote backup of video surveillance data

Keyboard lockup to enhance security

Watermark image verification technology

Supports over 12 different languages

Virtual keyboard

Record to multiple hard drives

Watch dog function built in

Video enhancer software designed to visually enhance surveillance video data

Central monitoring system enables users to access and monitor up to 128 channels simultaneously for a wide range of applications

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Graphics Resolution: 320 x 240 NTSC/PAL Preview/Recording , 640 x 480 NTSC/PAL Preview/Recording , 720 x 480 NTSC/PAL Preview/Recording

Interfaces/Ports: 4 x Composite - BNC Video-in , 1 x Composite - RCA TV-out

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How to chose a good CCTV Security Camera Surveillance System

In the past few years the need for CCTV security surveillance systems has increased, wither its for your home or your business CCTV technologies have proven to increase security. and Just like any other technology now a days, CCTV systems are way more affordable that they used to be, but first what makes a good CCTV security camera system?


Instructions

1. Step1
   The number of Frames Per second your DVR (Digital Video Recorder) is capable of handling. First understanding what that means, A real time second of video is 30 Frames. so a recorded second or video motion that doesn't skip is 30 Frames. So if your CCTV camera system is capable of handling 30fps that means you can record only one camera real time otherwise the 30fps will be divided into how many cameras they system might support. So when looking for a good CCTV Surveillance system make sure you get a system that does 30fps for each camera. so if you are looking for a 4 a good CCTV security camera system look for a 120fps DVR capable.
2. Step2
   TV Lines supported by the CCTV cameras. A CCTV camera's quality is measured by TV Lines, which is the number of horizontal TV lines the camera produces, and of course the higher the clearer and better picture. the average quality is 400TVL, 420TVL is good picture quality, 480TVL is higher quality and more is even Better. keep in mind that TV Lines is what mainly controls the price of the CCTV camera.
3. Step3
   The Resolution of which the DVR does display and record. which is the original dimensions in pixels of the displayed or recorded video Such as 160x120, 320x240 and 640x480 and the higher is the better.
4. Step4
   The HDD capacity of the CCTV DVR. which basically means the number of recorded previous days of video that the DVR will keep before recycling. most CCTV systems by default record video based on motion which means if there is no motion there is no recording because practically it will be a still image rather than video. the average for a 4 camera system is between 160GB and 250GB and the higher the more days of recorded video (motion) your DVR system keep.
5. Step5
   Remote capability. Now a days a standard CCTV camera systems are remote view capable. which means you can view your cameras remotely and virtually from anywhere in the world using the internet using internet explorer or using a remote client that is installed on the PC your accessing the DVR from.
6. Step6
   Back up and recovery compatibility. CCTV camera systems give you the ability to back up desired video period either on CD-R, DVD-R or USB storage including USB flash drives. Making it easy to export video to other devices for many various reasons. for example making a copy for the police or the insurance company.

How to Adjust the Color of CCTV Cameras

losed-circuit television surveillance cameras have been recording video in black and white because color cameras couldn't match black-and-white cameras' sensitivity to light. Recent electronic advances now enable CCTV color cameras to capture color as well as black-and-white cameras do, but if the color is not accurate, the image is hard to see. Adjusting CCTV color cameras so that they properly display color is a necessity for them to function at their optimal setting.

Instructions

Adjust the level of the synch pulse amplitude on the CCTV color camera to 40 Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) units. View the image of the CCTV color camera to see if the picture is breaking up or rolling. If the picture is breaking up or rolling, readjust the synch pulse amplitude to a higher number and view the picture again. Stop adjusting the synch pulse amplitude when the picture on the monitor is no longer breaking up or rolling.


Set the white-level iris setting to 100 IRE units exactly on the CCTV color camera.


Measure the peak-to-peak video signal of the CCTV color camera using the 10 megahertz oscilloscope. Replace the CCTV color camera with a new one if the measurement is not on or about 140 IRE units.


Install a video equalizer in the video signal cable between the CCTV color camera and the monitor. Adjust the color burst control of the video equalizer to 40 IRE units to place the chroma level at its correct setting.

How Do CCTV Cameras Work?

Analog CCTV
Analog CCTV systems use one of two main conduits to transmit audio-visual information. The first, and most common, is a wired configuration. The second uses a wireless transmitter to connect to a receiver.

Wired CCTV installations run a cable or wire between the camera and the monitor. The image data is usually transmitted over a coaxial cable. The audio is usually transmitted over a simple copper wire or wires. The signal transmitted over these wires and cables is then fed in to a monitor or a set of monitors if the image needs to be visible in different locations. A multiplexer can be used to display feeds from multiple cameras on a single monitor. Each camera's picture would take up a pre-set amount of space on the monitor. Analog CCTV cameras can also be routed to an image capture board on a computer to allow the audio-visual information to be viewed on a computer monitor.

Wireless CCTV installations are similar to wired. The difference is that a radio transmitter is attached to the camera. A radio receiver is then attached to the input on the monitor system or computer. Wireless systems are useful in a couple of situations. The first is when the distance between the camera and the monitor is too far to be practical for a cable run. Wireless CCTV is also good when cables aren't practical because of aesthetic reasons.
Digital CCTV
CCTV installations can also be digital. Digital CCTV often uses Internet Protocol (IP) cameras. An IP camera is a camera that contains the camera and hardware to convert the audio and video signals to a stream of packets that can then be transmitted over a local area network (LAN) wide area network, (WAN) or even over the internet.

Digital CCTV has many advantages over analog. First, it can use existing wired or wireless internet, including Wi-Fi. Because of this, it isn't limited by distance. A CCTV camera can be set up in one city and have its signal transmitted easily to another city. Another advantage of digital CCTV is that a series of cameras can be routed to a wireless hub, thus minimizing the amount of cabling required for a complex installation.