Technology The earliest video surveillance systems involved constant monitoring because there was no way to record and store information. The development of reel-to-reel media enabled the recording of surveillance footage. These systems required magnetic tapes to be changed manually, which [...]

Histor Closed circuit TV monitoring at the Central Police Control Station, Munich Germany in 1973. Desk in one of the regional control-rooms of the National Police in the Netherlands in 2017. CCTV control-room monitor wall for 176 open-street cameras in [...]

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance,[1][2] is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point-to-point (P2P), [...]