Design and Installation of Closed Circuit Television Camera System

The Design and Installation of Closed Circuit Television Camera System project aimed to design and install a CCTV system for surveillance and security purposes. The project objectives included identifying a proper design, proposing a simple structure, and analyzing results. The project involved circuit designing, electrical measurements, and programming languages. The major components of the CCTV system were outdoor and indoor IP cameras, DVR, hard disk, lenses, power, data distribution, and lighting. The project faced issues with LED indicators, factory reset, and incomplete coverage, which were solved by checking power, changing factory reset, and adding more cameras. The plan was to produce creative and innovative work by effectively executing responsibilities.

CE 1.1 Project Information
Name of the project: Design and Installation of Closed Circuit Television Camera
System
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Project Duration: Please fill
Organization: Please fill
Role and Designation during the time: Team Member of the project
CE 1.2 Project Background
CE 1.2.1 Characteristics of the project
The CCTV system serves as the security force multiplier and provides surveillance for
any large area and also for a longer period of time. These CCTV systems are always utilized
for the purpose of supporting the comprehensive security system by the incorporation of
video coverage as well as security alarm for the intrusion detection or barriers and even
controlling the access. The project of Design and Installation of Closed Circuit Television
Camera System focuses on the designing of closed circuit television camera or CCTV
camera. These types of systems are responsible for providing surveillance capabilities that are
utilized for the proper protection of assets, people or systems. I undertook this particular
project for successfully designing and installing a CCTV system. While developing the
closed circuit camera, I have utilized several transmission methods for data transmission and
automated image analysis.

CE 1.2.2 Objectives developed for the project
During this project of Design and Installation of Closed Circuit Television Camera
System, I have developed several objectives. They are as follows:
 To identify a proper design for the development of camera.
 To propose the cheapest and the simplest structure for designing the closed circuit
television camera.
 To identify a simpler procedure for installing the camera.
 To undergo experiments and analyze the results with real life tracking.
CE 1.2.3 My area of work
Before starting my work on this project of Design and Installation of Closed Circuit
Television Camera System, I have subsequently studied several journals, books and articles
related to closed circuit television camera designs. I have even conducted a significant
detailed review on the previous researches to properly understand the specification as well as
requirements that are needed to develop the design of this camera. Moreover, I have
documented and gathered several results to analyze them. My next area of work was to
propose the preliminary design for my project before our prototype was developed.

CE 1.2.4 Project Group
Figure 1: People involved in the project
CE 1.2.5 My responsibilities throughout the project
I had some of the major responsibilities in this project. I contacted the main police
office to take the booklet of terms and conditions. I even determined the types of cameras
required by location and geographical nature. I was also responsible for the determination of
DVR record system. I cooperated with our technical office for preparing the layout. My next
responsibility was to submit the proposed system and layouts to the police office for review
and initial approval. Proper follow ups to the police office were another duty to receive the
initial approval. I also found out the best suppliers and contractors in this field within the
local market for perfect quotations. The best suppliers were filtered by me and the
comparative sheets between all suppliers including the type of components and manufacture
were prepared by me. I even checked for the cost and delivery time as well as installation of
the system. During this period I studied the possibility of implementing the installation by
myself with a team from the company. I also calculated the working hours required to install

the system and the cost of these hours. Next, I presented this data to our General Manager
with the study or the saving value that reached 55% of the value of the best offer we received.
CE 1.3 Distinctive Activity
CE 1.3.1 Engineering knowledge and skills applied in the project
The first significant skill that I have applied here is the circuit designing. I have an
intense knowledge regarding the working procedures of several circuits and even how to
design or fix them subsequently. The proper instrumentation and the electrical measurements
were the next important skills that were applied by me within this project. I even have the
knowledge to evaluate the electric current or the various components that are reacting with
each other. The interpersonal communication skills were yet another important skill required
in this project of Design and Installation of Closed Circuit Television Camera System. I have
even utilized several programming languages to solve the equations and to design the circuits.
CE 1.3.3 Comprehending the Theory of Project
CCTV cameras comprise of various components with the variety of features,
specifications and functions. The major components of this system mainly include 06
Outdoor IP Camera 1080p zoom 100m 360 and 180 panorama view, 10 indoor IP camera
1080 p zoom 60m, DVR 20, Hard Disk 1 TB, lenses, power, data distribution, and lighting.
The CCTV technologies can undergo the feature refinements for the purpose of improving
the performance in several areas like the component miniaturization, data storage, digital
equipment options, automated image analysis and wireless communications.

Figure 2: Components of CCTV System
I noticed that a major input to this designing as well as specification of the outdoor
system of CCTV layout is dependent on the analysis or collection of the aerial photographs
taken. All of these images could be obtained from the wider diversity of sources like the
services of aerial photography, satellite photographs, and the applications for hosting of the
free web based mapping.
The video system overview of our system had the transmission and receiving speed of
H.264 and MPEG 4 video and bidirectional audio. The real time recording was done at the
speed of 25fps with almost no frame loss and the video streaming was done at the rate from
32 to 4096 kbps. Moreover, our camera provided about 704X576 (PAL) active pixels at the
rate of 25 fps. The colour resolution was 540 TV Lines for sharp pick up of live video. Each
camera had the video at 720P HD and 25 frames to view these videos during live recording.
The hard disk was of 1 SATA interface and the capacity of our camera was up to 6 TB for
every disk. We kept the working temperature between -10 C to 65 C and hence were able to
record in almost every climate. The angle of view was within 80 to 27.2 degree and it was
internally synchronized.

I considered the camera location, lighting strategies and the selection of camera
together for designing this CCTV system to eventually ensure the optimum performance and
even to prevent the conflicts of operational environment. The interior cameras required the
internal software for the purpose of compensating the backlight that is the perfect contrast
within the levels of low interior light as well as the higher exterior levels of daytime light. I
made sure that the selection of the suitable media of video transmission, like the UTP or
unshielded twisted pair and coaxial cable. This was one of the most vital aspects to design the
quality of our CCTV system.
This project of CCTV system comprised of several cameras or monitors for recording
the devices. Our result was achieved successfully. Our system was run despite of several
difficulties within 45 days. We completed our project in shorter period of time by saving 35%
of the project value. I have gained more experience in the ELV field and even gained
recognition of the company management.
CE 1.3.4 Identified issues and their solutions
1.3.4.1 Issues
There were some of the major issues related to this project that I have faced. The first
and the foremost issue that I have faced here was the LED indicators within the camera.
These indicators were responsible for the successful transmission of data across the network.
These are kept hidden within the camera. However, the LEDs in our project were not lighting
up properly. The next issue or problem that I had faced here was while extracting the data of
the camera. The factory reset made it extremely difficult to restore the data and hence we
were losing our data. Moreover, after every 20 seconds, our camera was getting rebooted and
we had to input our settings once again. The next significant issue of this project t was the
incomplete coverage. We had a made an estimate of the coverage area of our system.

However, our coverage was not completed and we had to face a lot of difficulties in solving
this particular issue.
1.3.4.2 Solutions
I suggested some of the most relevant and significant solutions to these problems that
we have faced in the project of Design and Installation of Closed Circuit Television Camera
System. For the first issue of LED indicators, I provided the suggestion to check whether the
camera is being powered externally or not. After checking, I noted that it was not powered
externally and hence the issue was arriving. This camera was powered through electricity and
not battery and thus proper wattage was checked. For the next significant issue of factory
reset, I provided the suggestion to change our factory reset and thus after every 20 seconds,
our data was not lost and it was restored. The final issue was incomplete coverage. I
suggested that we should keep a security monitor with more number of alarms and cameras.
This eventually solved our problem.
CE 1.3.5 Plan to produce creative and innovative work
Our plan was to produce creative as well as innovative work by segregating our work
eventually. We made sure that all the team members are executing their duties or
responsibilities effectively and efficiently.