CCTV Installation Course

CCTV Installation SAQA US ID:244320 LEVEL 4  CREDITS : 11

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Course Content

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• Unit 1 Introduction to CCTV

• Introduction to CCTV installation

• CCTV Video signals (H 264, Mpeg 2)

• Cabling and connectors (CAT5, CAT6 & Coax)

• Crimping BNC, CAT5 & keystone connectors

• Video transmission (analogue to digital, megapixel cameras)

• Assembling a CCTV system Troubleshooting using CCTV tester

• Unit 2 Electrical and CCTV installation

• How to design a cable run

• Introduction to Ohm’s law

• How to choose the right type of cable

• Installing CCTV cameras with RG59 & CAT5

• Installing CCTV power supplies

• Using electrical tools

• Unit 3 – CCTV system designing

• Introduction to recording resolution, frames per second & lens sizes

• How to calculate field of view (Selecting the correct types of lens size, recording resolution and configuring frames per second)

• Digital CCTV storage and lighting (DVR storage calculator, Illumination and camera sensitivity in CCTV)

• PTZ camera installation (Protocols, baud rate in PTZ

• Installing camera housing for bigger projects with power

• Unit 4 – Practical wiring of CCTV system

• Running cables for a CCTV system (CAT5 & coaxial)

• Installing passive and active balun for long CCTV cable run

• Running shotgun cable and use of cable pulling tips and techniques

• Installing junction boxes

• Unit – 5 Networking in CCTV

• Remote access and mobile app viewing

• Local area networking and wider are network

• Assigning a local area IP address to a DVR via DHCP

• Techniques used in assigning a unique and static local IP address to a DVR

• Private and public IP address

• TCP and IP setting

• Mobile phone view through P2P