A field reference for the practitioners who actually do the work. Not a vendor sales tool. Not a theoretical text. A working reference covering the four phases that determine whether a CCTV and access control system performs in year three.
What the book covers
Design and planning. The work that should happen before procurement. Threat model, environment survey, network design, segmentation, camera count and coverage, door schedule, intrusion overlap, integration boundaries, and the documentation that lets the integrator quote what the design actually requires rather than what they assume.
Install discipline. The bench-side practice that decides whether the system holds together. Cable selection, pathway layout, conduit and box discipline, termination quality, labeling, firestopping, grounding, and the install habits that get caught in commissioning if they were skipped on the bench.
Commissioning and service. What the integrator’s commissioning checklist should look like, what the owner’s representative should sign off on, and the ongoing service discipline that keeps the deployment performing once the operator team takes over.
Platforms named
Genetec Security Center (Omnicast, Synergis, AutoVu), Software House C-CURE 9000, Milestone XProtect, Avigilon Control Center, Axis Communications cameras and analytics, and Bosch security products. The patterns transfer to every major platform; the book calls out where they do and where the substitutions matter.
Who it is for
Security integrators planning, bidding, or commissioning CCTV and access control projects. IT generalists handed a Genetec or C-CURE environment they did not design. Owner’s representatives and consulting engineers building a specification that an integrator can actually quote. Practitioners moving into physical security from adjacent disciplines.
Who it is not for
Buyers looking for a vendor recommendation. The book is vendor-agnostic. No reseller relationships, no commission tied to platform selection.
By Hans Study, CISSP. Independent network and security consultant and advisor based in Ontario, Canada.