How To Design The Perfect CCTV System in the IT World

Introduction

With the serious changes that have taken place in society, the need for security related products has risen to unheard of levels. Among the strongest demand is for CCTV Security Camera Systems. Large and

small manufacturers have flooded the market with products to meet this demand. In the past installation of security camera systems was relatively limited to professional installers. Now with the influx of products both in the retail market and through Internet sales, the use of a professional installer is less common. More and more you see the “Do-it-yourselfer” installing their own camera systems. The appeal is the potential savings they could realize. However the reality is that many consumers end up choosing a camera system that doesn’t meet their needs. Worse yet, even if they do catch a criminal in the act, the video image is so poor that it can’t be used for prosecutable evidence.

What was originally thought to be a good idea can turn into a total waste of your time and money. The onslaught of CCTV cameras on the market has had both good and bad consequences for the consumer. The cost of owning a high quality camera system has gone down but without the proper knowledge consumers are spending too much money on systems that don’t meet their needs. With this in mind he has put together this Guide so that you can design the perfect CCTV system. You can apply this knowledge whether you install it yourself or choose to use a professional installer. Just imagine the look in their face when they try to sell you something you don’t need. I am confident by the time you finish reading this guide you'll be able to design the perfect camera system.

What Do I Want To See?

One of the first things you need to decide before designing a camera system is "What do I want to see” It may seem obvious or even silly to ask but not having an answer will cost you money and cause hours of frustration. The biggest mistake consumers make is to purchase their camera system from one of those wholesale clubs or from a "security company" that doesn't know what they’re doing! What ends up happening is that the system is designed around the number of cameras you want versus the number and types of cameras you need! For example: Your car’s being vandalized (50ft away) so you may think that you need only one camera to cover the whole front yard and to see your car. This application actually needs 2 cameras. Here's why: To see the whole yard you need a camera with a wide-angle lens. This produces a large field of view left to right but at distances beyond around 14 feet you won't be able to identify the vandals face The proper lens would for the second camera is a 16mm lens. This produces a close up view of the car but only a few feet to the left or right of the car.This simple example gives you an idea of how important it is know what you want to see before you determine the number of cameras you need.

Here is a list of other questions you'll need to answer

1 How many cameras will be used indoor and how many used outdoor?

2 How much light is available during the day and nighttime hours? Color or Black/White

3 What will you be mounting the cameras to?

Ok so now that you have a general idea of what you want let's go into more specific detail. All cameras need light to operate properly. It can come in the form of sunlight or artificial light such as light poles or infrared light If you look at the specifications of cameras you will notice a lux rating like .05 lux etc. Lux without getting to technical is used to measure available light.

Here are some common examples of Lux ratings.

1 Direct sunlight 100,000 - 130,000 Lux

2 Overcast day 1,000 Lux

3 Deep twilight 1 Lux

4 Full moon 0.1 Lux

5 Quarter moon 0.01 Lux

New Galaxy Nexus Mobile Coming Soon

Old Nexus mobile One Tips And Tricks

Nexus mobile One Tips And Tricks

1-Hold down home button you get a list of the most used applications.

2- Typing *#*#4636#*#* into the phone will bring up a screen titled “Testing”, with four other child screens:

Phone Information: details on the phone radio, data status and ip address, and options to turn on/off 3g. Battery Information: the current status of the battery; level, health etc. Battery History: battery/cpu/network usage stats

Usage Statistics: Stats on usage time/launch count/application name.

3 – Pressing and holding the “Grey Dots” brings up all of the home screens for you to select…instead of scrolling to them.

4- Pressing Power + Volume Down + Trackball at the same time will restart the phone.

5- Holding down trackball AFTER the non animated splash logo shows up will boot your phone into SAFE MODE.

6- Tap the menu button while on home screen will give you shortcut to settings.

7- If you’re using Dolphin Browser, kinetic screen scrolling is additive, meaning scrolling multiple times (while moving)   makes it scroll faster and faster.

8- To boot into Fast boot rather than Hboot, hold volume down and hit the power button while the phone is off. Makes for easier transition into recovery if you don’t adb or term into it.

9- Hold down the magnifying glass (or search button) and the voice search will activate, rather than the typed search.

10- Type about:debug in the browser, then press the menu button, more, settings. You’ll see some extra debug options.

11- Long press on the back button while in the browser takes you to your history.

12- If you are using swype, press on the sym button, then long press on it again, this will bring up a fat, numpad, good for numerical passwords. also if you swype these sym button, you will get a keypad page navigator.

What is Mobile Marketing? Creativity at It’s Best

What is mobile marketing?  One of the answers to that question is marketing through email.  What comprises an effective email campaign and why do advertisers like them so much?  First, an effective email campaign is one where the mobile marketer’s ad is read.  Just because you successfully deliver your message through email does not mean that it will be read.  Ensuring that your message will be read depends on what you place in the subject line.  If your email subject line reads like SPAM, more than likely your email will be deleted, which defeats the purpose of your email campaign.  On a mobile marketing device when people are on the go, the subject line must be more creative in order to have a chance at being opened because people’s attention spans when they are on the go tend to be a little less that when on a desktop computer.

Mobile marketers like email advertising so much because it is not labor intensive and it is perhaps one of the most inexpensive, efficient forms of mobile advertising in existence.  Email mobile marketing is not labor intensive because they are usually sent to a targeted audience and emails can be sent at various intervals so that if the customer does not buy on the first email, they might buy on the fourth.  Email advertising is inexpensive, free to email and the only real costs associated with email marketing are the labor needed to design the email and the labor needed to organize the potential recipients.  In traditional marketing, as with real mailers, you would have the cost of the actual physical mailer, the postage cost and then there would be no guarantee that the recipient would read the message.

What Is Mobile Marketing? and How it Affects Us

Advertising is essential for most businesses today; whether it be a main source of income or sheerly to attract more consumers. There a several ways to advertise nowadays, through magazines and newspapers, via the internet, and on billboards. One of the newer forms of advertising is through mobile phones, but exactly what is mobile marketing?

Often people disregard or fail to recognize mobile advertising on its own because they associate it so closely with internet marketing, whilst it may be very similar (after all you are able to access the internet via most smart phones today) it is important to acknowledge that at this current time mobile phones reach a far greater audience.

Mobile marketing is the advertising of any product, service or cause that reaches you on a mobile device like a cell phone, Blackberry, tablet or laptop notebook.  The question of what is mobile marketing is an invention of the late 1990s relative to advertising and comes in various forms.  There are statics ads, skyscraper ads, banner ads, flash ads, video ads and audio ads accompanied by pictures.  Any of these ads are the same ads that you might see on your personal desktop PC, but with some allowances for mobile devices.  Technology has also created mobile marketing by converting traditional marketing to mobile marketing simply by viewing the advertisement on a mobile device.

Society in general is on the go and very mobile.  Advertisers recognized that society is changing and they recognized the need to change how to market their products, services and causes as well to deliver their message.  At a minimum, almost everyone has a cell phone with texting capability, even if it is prepaid as opposed to a long term contract.  If you will observe the public in general, especially in metropolitan areas, people are always on their mobile devices.  Childrens’ favorite way of communication is not by voice but by text.  Some of the ads that come to these type phones are text ads, especially if the phone has no connectivity to Internet data or picture capability.  More advertisers are sending out random text messages to cell phones in order to spread their message.  But text messages are easy to delete and isn’t the most effective form method of mobile marketing.

After the advent of cell phones, soon came the next generation of mobile devices, led by the Blackberry.  The gift of the Blackberry has enabled us to check our email on the run and to some degree, see illustrations and some of them were even sophisticated enough to view video.   Being able to see and read email on the go opened up a whole new world to mobile businesses in how they go about marketing their business.  Many businesses, even to this day, will attempt to get you to give them your email address for the sole purpose of trying to sell you.  They developed a  very targeted email campaigns for the delivery of their messages.  In a email, you are not limited by time like in a video campaign or space like an ad of any sort.  You can list benefits, advantages and attributes of your product, service or cause.  The key is getting your message read and keeping the reader’s attention through the conclusion of the email.

Latest New Technology Motorola’s Xoom

One of these being Motorola Mobility’s XOOM, which is the first tablet to operate on Google’s hotly anticipated Android 3.0 Honeycomb system. Released in February of this year the tablet boasts a two mega pixel front-facing camera for video chatting over the internet, as well as a back facing five mega pixel camera. It also has a 10.1 inch HD display screen, meaning you can enjoy watching HD movies and programs on this thin, light, and very sleek looking tablet. The main advantage the Motorola XOOM has over its competitors is that it offers a much higher resolution and larger display then most.

Of course tablets cannot be mentioned without speaking of the Apple iPad 2. Apple have updated their first version of the tablet to create a thinner design with faster specs. It features the new dual core A5 processor, this means that the iPad2 has graphics on par with a full laptop. It also boasts a front and rear facing camera as well as a longer lasting battery which can last up to ten hours.

Despite the dominance of the tablet in new technology 2011 thus far other gadgets have also shone a bright light. 3D has been a hit for a while now but Toshiba scored massive points by developing huge 3D televisions that don’t need specific glasses to view. 3D TV’s without the need of glasses were invented at the end of last year however only on small scale sets, not 65 inch televisions like Toshiba offer.