POS gear integrated with CCTV

[Milhouse Van Houten <none@xxxxxxxxx>]

Roland wrote:

>I am getting some (almost goofy) requests for POS gear integrated with CCTV.
>That is fine, but I know less than nothing about POS gear. Okay, I see it
>when I eat at a restaurant and I fix it from time to time as a favor to some
>customers, but it isn't a product line. If folks are trying to order this
>stuff directly from a security vendor is that becoming common elsewhere?
>Anyone doing POS and CCTV installs? It's not what I expected to be doing. In
>our state you have to have a license of course for security and that
>includes CCTV. So regular POS guys couldn't legally do the work anyway.


I've done POS interface with AVE stuff.  Buy it direct from the
Houston manufacturer.  It basically has an input for video and a
serial port for the cash register data, then it overlays the output of
serial data onto the camera video with it's own timestamp (you can
turn it off).  Most systems you can just put a tap between the receipt
printer and POS machine.  Other systems have a serial port built-in,
and you can grab data directly from the register.

If the customers wants more than just plain overlay data, you need a
DVR that can handle POS data because there is a tap on the unit that
feeds into a serial port on the DVR.  This makes the data available in
a SQL database that is easily searchable by transaction, item, time,
cashier, etc...  For multiple POS machines a good PC based DVR system
is needed for adding extra serial ports and running the database.