Principles of CCTV

Principles of CCTV

This course offers a good balance of essential CCTV theory and practical
surveying and design work. Learn to provide a professional specification
in the comfort of your own home or workplace with this very popular
distance learning programme.

Course Content:

• Necessary principles of CCTV:
• Digital and analogue theory
• Display screen types - TFTs, plasma
• CRTs and rear screen projection
• Fundamental Ohm's Law
• Camera back focusing
• Zoom tracking
• Types of lenses - varifocal, fixed, zoom dd and Vi
• Understanding lighting parameters
• Digital recording
• Storage
• Video transmission media - fibre, co-ax, twisted pair and free space.

Practical site surveying and design:

• Selecting and applying lenses and filters
• Operational Requirement
• Rotakin
• Interpreting manufacturers' data sheets
• Choosing cameras, lenses and housings
• Calculating the best lens for the job
• Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR)
• International, European and UK standards
• CCTV legislation
• Designing a system.