Doktor
Jon Launches ‘VIPER’ The Unique CCTV Camera Evaluation Service
For quite some time, it's become increasingly obvious
that vast numbers of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) security cameras,
are failing to produce any useful Evidential Quality video recordings,
when required to assist with criminal investigations.
Time and again, both senior police officers and industry experts have
revealed to the Press, the everyday problems facing investigators trying
to recover poor quality images, often obtained from incorrectly installed
and maintained surveillance cameras.
Now more than ever, with an increasing awareness of the absolutely vital
role for CCTV, particularly in investigations involving serious crimes
and terrorism, CCTV Operators really do need to take urgent steps to improve
the effectiveness of their systems, to make sure they are truly ‘fit
for purpose’.
October 1st 2008 saw the official launch of a unique new CCTV service
called ‘VIPER’.
Designed to provide an easy, affordable expert assessment of security
camera performance, the ‘Video Image Performance Evaluation Report’
or VIPER, is now available to indicate how well an individual camera is
performing as a vital evidential security tool.
UK based CCTV Advisor 'Doktor Jon', has introduced what is believed to
be the first ever online service, that can actually provide CCTV Operators
with an impartial and independent overview of precisely how their CCTV
cameras are performing, and what technical issues may need to be addressed
in order for the equipment to be able to provide useful and usable evidential
quality images.
The service itself is very simple ... a CCTV User can forward an image
captured from an individual surveillance camera (normally supplied as
a JPEG file, sent as an e-mail attachment), and a resulting VIPER assessment
will be produced to report on the cameras technical and operational capabilities
in 38 key areas.
VIPER reports can be ordered up by CCTV users located anywhere around
the globe, and in terms of built in client confidentiality, there is no
requirement for either knowing the identity of the operator, or indeed
the location of the camera. The evaluation is based purely on what is
seen 'on screen', and so provides an exceptionally affordable, practical
and secure solution, to an extremely common problem ... ‘how can
I find out if my CCTV cameras are working well?’.
The first VIPER assessment is designed for fixed video surveillance cameras,
and a number of additional VIPER evaluations are being developed for other
types of CCTV, for example remote control Pan, Tilt and Zoom (PTZ) units.
Jon, the principle CCTV Advisor from the website doktorjon.co.uk has said
that ‘Previously, cctv users have only been able to have their cameras
performance evaluated independently, by employing the services of a specialist
CCTV Consultant, and that can often prove to be very expensive. Now with
the launch of VIPER, anyone can check whether their cameras are working
well, and without breaking the bank’;
-commenting on the importance of VIPER, he says ‘Law Enforcement
Officers have long been complaining about the very poor quality of many
CCTV recordings; from the extremely positive comments received to date,
this looks like exactly what's needed to help raise the performance, suitability
and effectiveness of vital Forensic Surveillance evidence’.
More information at:- http://www.doktorjon.co.uk/cctvimage.html
or e-mail - viper@doktorjon.co.uk
