Top 7 Questions to Ask to Build Your San Diego Surveillance System

John HonovichS has written a book about designing a video surveillance solution below are the seven fundamental questions.

Designing a video surveillance solution requires decisions on 7 fundamental questions. This tutorial walks the reader through each issue explaining the basic options and the rationale for selecting different options.

This is a survey to help those new to video surveillance (and the first chapter of the "Security Manager's Guide to Video Surveillance" 2nd Edition book). Its goal is to quickly identify the key aspects of video surveillance design, not to examine the many details and edge cases in such designs.

The 7 fundamental questions are:

• What type of security cameras should I use?


• How should I connect cameras to video management systems?


• What type of video management system should I use?


• What type of storage should I use?


• What type of video analytics should I use?


• How should I view my surveillance video?


• How should I integrate video with my other systems?