Integrated Security Systems Design, 2nd Edition

Preface

This book is about IP-network-based integrated security systems design. It was written to help new designers and designers who are familiar with old-style alarm/access control and analog video and intercom systems adapt to IP-based systems.

I was an early advocate of Information Technology (IT)-based infrastructure because it offered something that older security system infrastructures could not: true enterprise capability. Ethernet infrastructures permit the distribution of a security system across the organization’s facilities all over the world. That just isn’t possible with older infrastructures.

While I was delighted to see the security manufacturing industry adopt Ethernet infrastructures, I was distressed to see that the industry ...