Caputo - Digital Video Surveillance and Security

Praise for Anthony C. Caputos Digital Video
Surveillance and Security

A must read for any security professional contemplating the implementation of an IP-based security system from an author who was instrumental in implementing one of Americas largest citys homeland security systems.

Jeffrey Menken, Video and Wireless Network IT Architect, IBM

The subject matter of this book will appeal greatly to security practitioners and small business or home owners looking for guidance to install IP-based surveillance cameras and integrated systems.

Brian Baker, CPP, Brian D. Baker Security Group, State College, PA

This book covers quite a bit of information in great detail and is a great how-to reference. The illustrations are good and as we all know, a picture tells a thousand words, so that is a good aid.... A fine manual and description of Digital Video Surveillance.

Roger J. Martinez, President and CEO, Quantum Crossings, LLC, Technology and Telecommunications

A valuable resource of real-world, in-depth knowledge on networked video surveillance systems.

Bo Larsson, CEO, Firetide, Inc.

Digital Video Surveillance
and Security

Anthony C. Caputo

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This book is dedicated to my family and they all know who they are.

One could say that my career in technology has followed the convergence of our digital world. Ive been working with digital video, with multimedia, since the mid-1990s. My first experience with networking communications was an experiment in 1989 with a pre-press company who wished to test a new method of delivering digital desktop publishing pages over a 2400-baud modem.

My extensive experience in digital video resolution and compression (codecs), bandwidth, and streaming within a video editing environment and my years in a multitude of networking technologies including writing the Build Your Own Server book and working in streaming media for Warner Bros., BMG Music, and commercial training applications made it easy to understand digital video surveillance. The security aspect was a natural transition from my days as a system analyst, when everything was about business process improvement.

In early 2006, I joined the IBM Project Management Office for the City of Chicagos Operation Virtual Shield (OVS), a city-wide homeland security initiative that linked a multitude of cameras through the downtown Chicago area. My history in digital video, and networking technologies and as an author and writer, coupled with my experience as a certified Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) and instructor, made me a valuable addition to the team. My initial responsibility was to write the procedure manuals for the system. As many technical writers experience when working on projects with the complexity of something such as OVS, there are very few individuals who know everything about all aspects of the system and those people are usually too busy to sit down on a regular basis to assist in the documentation of how the system works. Bits and pieces can be accumulated from various project managers, architects, designers, implementers, contractors, etc., so in the end I went out into the field to observe and record.

Sometimes figuring out how something is supposed to work and then fixing it is the only way to find out how it really works, so you can accurately document it. I stuck my nose and knowledge in too many places and wasnt allowed to leave the field again.

This book is the accumulation of years of hands-on experience in the field, and I believe it severs the ties that video surveillance has had for decades with closed-circuit television (CCTV). The world of analog television has also jumped into the digital age, thanks to the convergence of digital entertainment and communications, and video surveillance has jumped along with it.

Digital Video Surveillance and Security explains the concepts that are becoming the new standards in video security, both theoretically and from the field where the only days your hands arent dirty from handling the real tools and equipment are the days when youre wearing gloves to protect your hands from the subzero temperatures.

Anthony C. Caputo
2009

Special thanks to everyone at IBM who gave me the opportunity to thrive: Roger Rehayem, James Sara, Timothy Herlihy, Jeffrey Menken, Dave Bisset, Ted Gary, Jim Lautenbach, Jodi Samsa, and Ladislao Delgado. Grand thanks and appreciation for suggestions, contributions, and comments: Dave Bisset, George Shapkarov, Jimmy Jimenez, Jeffrey Menken, Roger Rehayem, Terry Hennessy, Tim Roudebush, Mike Intag, Murali Repakula, Sivakumar Kailias, Pramod Akkarachittor, Joey Gerodias, and Michael Lane. Special thanks to my friends at MPEA for their help and support: Vince Gavin, Ellen Barry, Rich Piotrowski, and Tony Clark. Special thanks to my friends at the City of Chicagos 911 Center, Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) for their help and support: Aric Roush, and Joe Zito. And also thanks to: Gina Fritts, Brandon Ballschmeide, Donny Rutkowski, Rob Fleenor, Roger Martinez, Neil Salkind, Ed Guy, Pam Chester, Nancy Hoffmann, and Megan Berry.