JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – FIFA introduced and implemented the technology video assistant referee (VAR) at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

VAR is a video camera technology that plays an important role in helping referees direct football matches to be more orderly and fair from a match regulations perspective.

FIFA said VAR could help referees make decisions about players’ offside or offside positions.

FIFA said VAR can also determine if a goal is valid or not.

Of course, VAR technology also helps the referee decide whether or not a penalty is awarded.

Generally speaking, VAR technology uses cameras.

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The camera placement is at different angles with different viewpoints or focus.

“Basically, VAR cameras fall into the category broadcast camera what is different from CCTV cameras,” said Andyko, i-PRO Indonesia Sales Engineer, Thursday (7/21/2022), responding to questions Kompas.com .

On this occasion, together with Keisuke Nakagawa, President and CEO of PT Panasonic Gobel Indonesia, Yasushi Matsumoto, General Manager of PT Panasonic Gobel Indonesia Connected Solution, and Idi Putranto, Product Marketing Manager i-PRO Indonesia, Panasonic presented at the public CCTV cameras or i-PRO monitors.

The six variants are WV-S8544L, WV-S4576L, WV-S71300-F3, WV-S15700-V2LN, WV-U65302-Z2 and M-46-FW.

The M-46-FW is Advidia’s 4MP resolution series that comes in class entry level.

Andyko added that the difference with VAR is that CCTV cameras are categorized cameras Surveillance camera.

Surveillance system which is often known as CCTV system (CCTV) has visual control of all activities (audio visual) in a certain area which is installed by a device in the form of a camera.

CCTV functions can directly monitor, observe and record events in a certain place, room or area.

Kompas.com/JOSEPHUS PRIMUS Posing from left to right Andyko, Sales Engineer i-PRO Indonesia, Keisuke Nakagawa, President and CEO of PT Panasonic Gobel Indonesia, Yasushi Matsumoto, General Manager of PT Panasonic Gobel Indonesia Connected Solution, and Idi Putranto, Product Marketing i-PRO Indonesia , at the launch of six variants of the i CCTV.-PRO camera in Jakarta on Thursday (7/21/2022). The six variants are WV-S8544L, WV-S4576L, WV-S71300-F3, WV-S15700-V2LN, WV-U65302-Z2 and M-46-FW. The M-46-FW is the 4MP resolution Advidia series which is present in the entry-level class.

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