Honeywell K9696V2 6.2Background, No video is reaching View, See also, Planning, Section

Multi-Media Unit: Installation Instructions

#	Frequently asked question	Section
	No video is reaching View
10	How are the cameras connected?	2.5
11	Is there a power outage? Has the UPS failed?	2.4
12	Are the unit, cameras and other hardware powered?	2.4.1
13	Does the site connection information, in the Multi database that you	3.2.2
	are using to log on, reflect the type of connection used by the PC
	and the Multi-Media unit: network or dial-up?

See also

7.4: More FAQs, p. 7–5.

6.2Background

Planning

Closed circuit television (CCTV) can help assess an area, assist with police work when an area becomes a crime scene, and so on. Some forethought about unit tampering can help provide optimal gathering of evidence, for corporate use, or use of video in a court of law.

When planning where to place the unit and its video cameras, Honeywell suggests that your planning authority be made aware of, and consider:

•allowing for access to the unit, if maintenance is required, yet preventing easy criminal tampering with the system;

•working around camera blind spots due to: architecture, mobile equipment, vehicle docking, construction and so on;

•dealing with environmental lighting situations that can render a system ineffective: direct sunshine or other strong lighting, darkness and so on;

•dealing with environmental factors that can hamper a unit or its cameras: dust, condensation, excessive heat or cold, and so on;

•supplying adequate power to the unit; critical sites may benefit from an uninterruptible power supply (UPS);

•connecting the FAULT RELAY to an alarm panel, to monitor systems status;

-and -

•the type(s) of communications used to obtain information from the Multi-Media unit: dial-up, network, both, or dial-up to a network.

Reference

For these and other background questions about the field of closed-circuit television in a security setting, a standard, reliable, in-depth reference is:

•Kruegle, Herman, CCTV Surveillance: Video practices and technology, Butterworth–Heinemann, Newton (MA), 1995, ISBN 0-7506-9028-3, TK6680.K78

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