Recently Les Simmonds (Chairman of the Standards Australia Non Broadcast Television Committee) and Vlado Damjanovski (Chairman of the Standards Australia CCTV Sub Committee) toured Australia together conducting CCTV Awareness Seminars for Standards Australia/SAI Global.The main aim of these seminars was to help make the attendees aware of the current CCTV standards in detail. The CCTV seminar attendee’s feedback caused Les and Vlado to realise there was a need to create a CCTV standards forum and information web site so the industry at large can participate in the creation of new CCTV standards and the modification of existing CCTV standards. Their web site is at www dot el51televisionstandards dot com dot au. The CCTV standards seminars were originally based on:- AS 4806.1 - Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) – Management and operation- AS 4806.2 - Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) – Application guidelines- AS 4806.3 - Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) – CCTV PAL signal timings and levels.They also added the soon to be released AS 4806.4 - Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) – Remote video and introduced the attendees to the concept of the proposed new and embryonic AS 4806.5, tentatively called Digital and Networking in CCTV, which will cover the integration of CCTV and IT technologies and will be of value and interest to both the CCTV and IT industries.At all of the CCTV awareness seminars Les and Vlado received valuable feedback from the attendees. The feedback was positive and there was a strong desire to comment on existing CCTV standards as well as new CCTV standards in their embryonic and building stages without being part of the Standards Australia CCTV sub committee. There is also a strong desire from Les and Vlado to obtain non proprietary professional comment and ideas on all existing and new CCTV standards from the CCTV, Security and IT industries.Therefore, Les and Vlado have set up their own web site for all EL51 Non Broadcast Television standards of which CCTV is one of those standards.The full list of EL51 Non Broadcast Television sub committees is:- CCTV sub committee.- Medical video sub committee.- Industrial video sub committee.- Professional camcorders sub committee.- Domestic camcorders sub committee.- Non Broadcast Television testing standards sub committee.The EL51 web site will include sections for all of the above sub committee work but the first section to be available will be CCTV. The home page is at el51televisionstandards.com.au (just add http://www in front - this is written like this for the reason of reducing spaming) and the CCTV forum page is under /cctv.html. In the CCTV section you will have the opportunity to register and make comment on the existing CCTV standards and make suggestions on any new CCTV standards which are in progress, or even suggest an entirely new standard which you believe is relevant.It is expected the process will be where appropriate comments on the existing CCTV standards will be put to the CCTV sub committee and then may be incorporated in amendments and/or new editions of the CCTV standards. New CCTV standards will be continually updated on the web site and taken to about 80% complete on the EL051 web site and then handed to the CCTV sub committee. The new standards will then go through the normal Standards Australia process and be available for your comment again when released by Standards Australia and the CCTV sub committee for “public comment”.This standards process is very new, quite revolutionary and, we understand, a world first. The success, or otherwise, will be up to you. So please participate at el51televisionstandards dot com dot au forward slash cctv when you have any CCTV standards ideas which you think are appropriate. 

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