The earliest documented use of CCTV technology was in Germany in 1942. The system was designed by the engineer Walter Bruch and it was set up for the monitoring of V-2 rockets. It wasn’t until 1949 that the technology was launched on a commercial basis. In that year, an American government contractor named Vericon began promoting the system.
These primitive solutions comprised cameras and monitors and they could only be used for live monitoring. They did not have components that allowed users to record footage