Melamine in CCTV Industry

The other day I was taken aback by a prospect saying all CCTV man ( and woman I presume) are like lawyers, hell is where they belong. Pretty obvious she had vary bad experiences with her CCTV deployment.

CCTV system is a vary sophisticated & complicated system which required the mastering of many disciplines & crafts like cctv, electronic, audio visual, IT, networking, telecommunication and sometimes even civil engineering and carpentry.

Like melamine in the milk and food industry and Collateralized Debt Obligations in the financial world, we at PocketCCTV had identified 5 types of melamine in our CCTV industry.

a) Counter-faith pirated DVR hardware, software & substandard camera & gear.

b) Parallel-imported equipment with no after sale service and warranty.

c) Incompetent & Inexperienced CCTV consultant & Installer.

d) Substandard supporting gear like the PC, router, cable, connector etc.

e) Over-promised but slow broadband speed & poor coverage of 3G services.

As long as we have the above stated melamine in our CCTV industry we will be forever cursed and looked down by those unwary melamine-tainted CCTV victims.

Halloween – Unidentified Flying Creature

Halloween may come and go, but we are forever fascinated with ghost and monster.

The other day I watched MonsterQuest of History channel on Astro about an unidentified flying creature, they call it Rods with multiple sets of wings. Some think it is a military weapon, others believe it may be a type of atmospheric beast from another dimension.

According to the cryptozoology, Rods are mysterious, elongated flying creatures. Some say it travels too fast to be seen with naked eye. However for decades cameras around the world have been capturing images of this flying, torpedo-like creature. But just what is it?

At the end of the show MonsterQuest sort of arrived at the conclusion that Rods are tricks of light, motion blur, artifacts of video photography. Interlacing is the likely culprit of the creation of this beast on all video footages.

Interlaced scan refers to a methods for "painting" a video image on an electronic display screen . Each frame of interlaced video is composed of two fields that are captured at different moments in time, interlaced video frames will exhibit motion artifacts if the recorded objects are moving fast enough to be in different positions when each individual field is captured especially if the camera is shooting at night with relatively long exposure times. The fast passage before the camera of an insect or even bird flapping its wings has been shown directly to produce rod-like effects.

Look closely to all the recorded footages in your DVR especially those recorded at Halloween night. You might had captured monster or ghost images on hard disk!

Quantum of No Solace

The iris of the much anticipated James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace will open in Malaysia at cinemas nationwide on the 6^th of November.

But last month the iris of the equally exciting Quantum of No Solace in Wall Street was wide open and some experts say it will remain open for at least till the end of 2009 or the beginning of 2010!

How bad is this global credit crunch affecting our CCTV industry?

Some says security industry is recession proof & yet some says security may be but security products certainly are not.

Well, one thing for sure, for the time being I will only buy one bond, that's Jame Bond & its stock code is 007.

Then again, I could be wrong! ...That's life.

Drill Drill Drill vs Change Change Change

American President candidate Republican John McCain's “Drill Drill Drill” & Democrat Barack Obama's “Change Change Change” greatly representing & reflecting our CCTV industry's rivalry between the conventional analog solution & the IP network solution.

Both solutions has its pros and cons.

But we are luckier than the American voters. We can tap into the advantages & benefits of both the analog & IP surveillance gear by voting for a hybrid system ( like NUUO hybrid system )

Tonite the American will decide. Wish them have a peaceful presidential election.

White Gold Sentinel

A swiftlet farmer or commonly known as birdnest farmer came to our CCTV outlet to get the same surveillance gear for his 3^rd birdhouse in Sitiawan, Perak.

Edible birdnest farming is a vary lucrative business and the beauty of this business is this type of swiftlet is only available in South East Asia.

Cave like conditioned birdhouse is dark, about 2 to 3 Lux & humid with automated humidifier system with pipes & nozzles. Hence birdhouse required good quality infrared camera with IP66 standard weather proof certification.

Our IP68 (higher than IP66 standard) TANDÉR IR35SN had a proven track record as it had been deployed in more than 20 birdhouses both in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Warfare Gave Birth To CCTV

As the saying goes, “warfare gave birth to new technology”. We just found out it is also true for CCTV gear.



During World War II the German operated the world vary first CCTV system installed at the Peenemunde launch site, so that the world's first ballistic missile Vergeltungswaffe-2 or V-2 launches could be watched from a bunker.