Greetings from Centurion!

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Hello Everyone,

 

I’ve joined the forum quite some time ago, but due to the nature of the market I belonged in the CCTV industry, I was pretty much a silent participant for many years. Now that I am part of a venture that caters to installers and end users, I’d like to reintroduce myself.

 

I set my first footstep in the CCTV industry about 10 years ago, and I was lucky to be on the manufacturing side of the business. One of my main duties entailed procuring, testing and launching CCTV products and peripherals. I worked extensively with overseas manufacturers conducting design reviews, and then redesigning and improving existing products, and sometimes even inventing an entirely new product. Many companies to this day are still selling and utilizing the products that I worked on.

 

My other duties involved training and educating the internal employees as well as the sales and technical teams of distributors and installers across the nation (including CEU classes). I also participated in and assisted designing and troubleshooting of major CCTV installations in casinos, banks, jails, schools and hospitals – Analog (D1 and below), IP and HD-SDI systems.

Lastly, I wrote thousands and thousands of pages of technical manuals (mainly due to the fact that many of these manufacturers provided a manual that was written in English that no English speaker was able to understand), hundreds of specifications and Architectural and Specifications (A&E – bid conforming specifications style) sheets.

 

Now that I am part of a different market, I’d like to actively participate and contribute my most humble little knowledge I may be able to offer to the community, and at the same time, learn from other experts from converging industry (Alarm, Access Control, Home automation, etc.) – of course, I am not denying that I am also here to promote Centurion Surveillance – http://www.centurioncctv.com – Centurion Surveillance consists of professionals from various backgrounds, mainly from the CCTV manufacturing and wholesale industry as well as many from the e-commerce industry.

 

I was pleasantly shocked when I returned to this forum recently, as it has grown exponentially from when I joined. This indicates to me that the market is starting to refuse the cost of services and goods that are currently being marketed through the traditional channel – especially because I found many inquiries on the quality and reputation, and the channels to obtain them from overseas. Moreover, more and more household electronics manufacturers are jumping into the video security bandwagon and they are starting to manufacture consumer CCTV products. Moreover, much to the worries of the wholesale market, anyone can nowadays do a little research and find hundreds of manufacturers overseas that are eager to sell to anyone. Since the problem always has been the availability of the information on the reliability of a product from a company you’ve never heard of in a foreign country, and lack of support – something that I believe we can collectively improve over time.

 

Happy Hunting!