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We may be based in the UK, but we always like to follow some of the up and coming International Exhibitions!
Volcano ash permitting, we are looking to bring good information on emerging technologies from the following exhibitions in 2010
ESSEN – Essen, Germany 5th to 8th October
ASIS – Texas, USA 12th to 15th October
ISC EAST – New York, USA 3rd and 4th November
more to follow!
The Arecont Av10005 is the first PIXC to address lowlight issues experienced by megapixel network server cameras. Read the link to see how this is done and how you can purchase this very clever solution.
AV 10005 megapixel H.264 IP camera from Arecont.
The Arecont AV 10005, 10 megapixel network server camera has been designed to address the biggest problem that megapixel cameras suffer from, this is poor pictures at night. The camera has a reputation as the first PIXC to actually address low light issues. It can deliver 6 frames per second @ 3648 x 2752 or 30 frames per second @ 1920 x 1080.
Crisp clear images.
Having viewed the picture quality it certainly delivers crisp clear images but what about at night? Well clever design means that as light conditions deteriorate the camera groups pixels together allowing more light onto the chip. Admittedly it effectively becomes a 2 mexapixel camera at this point but at night the clarity can be reduced and still achieve acceptable images. The camera itself performs 80 billion operations per second that helps it achieve forensic zooming for regions of interest and has full motion detection to generate alarm events.
Two versions.
The camera comes in two versions. The AV10005 colour and the the AV10005DN, the day/night version. To compliment the camera, Arecont make available 4 different housings for a variety of applications.
Camera housings.
They have a 4” internal vandal proof, an external version of this, a recessed housing for false ceiling applications and finally the traditional shaped external IP 67 rated vandal proof model.
Multi streaming.
The AV10005 offers multi streaming, real time steaming and in addition, all units can be powered via POE, vital to speed in installations.
The two main benefits of this PIXC is that the extreme level of detail it is able to take in means that it can do the work of many traditional analogue cameras. Add to this its nigh-time performance and we start to see a complete solution.
Arecont. HOW TO BUY the AV10005. please mention integrated cctv on Arecont contact form
Arecont are well known within the industry for innovation and here we see they have stepped up to the mark and produced a fine product that will sell, especially where an installer has external night time applications he needs to address.
IP CCTV.
IP CCTV has suddenly come to the fore in the last couple of years . It was particularly noticeable at IFSEC this year where analogue cameras seemed to be no more than an after thought . However what are the reasons that a CCTV camera format that has served the industry for so long should now so suddenly become a technology that will soon be confined to museums or very short sighted end users?
Life in the old dog?
Well perhaps that last statement was a little unfair. It will still take a while before we see analogue cameras disappear completely off the scene, perhaps long as 10 years, but in the meantime megapixel IP cameras will start to produce results that many organisations will find hard to resist. What results you may ask? Well for so many years every CCTV administrator has just wanted to zoom in on captured images and blow them up to prove an event has occurred. Up to now there has rarely been enough definition to achieve this goal . Any blown up or artificially enhanced images have been blurred or pixelated to the point where they are useless.
Why HD CCTV or Megapixel cameras.
Mega pixel especially does not however suffer this problem. The images remain clear and crisp as they are zoomed into on the played back recordings . Add to this stunning live images and you will understand why analogue is effectively dead. Examples of camera manufactures who have taken this technology and produced some excellent camera solutions include Avigilon, Arecont, 360 vision technology, Bosch to name but a few.
What is the catch?
So as the camera technology improves are there any drawbacks? Well of course there are . Due to bandwidth and processing limitations some of the 10 mp cameras can only deliver images at 3 frames per second. Slow to say the least but with such crystal clear images it is still better than 12 fps on an analogue alternative. Of course the camera technology may be slighty ahead of the networks that they need to deliver them to their recording solution ie CCTV software. However as CCTV software gets better and the speed and flexibility of networks increase as well as the processing power of the camera chips, we will eventually see the utopia in terms of megapixel technology and this can bring to the end user the ultimate CCTV solution.
Conclusion.
Are you an end user who is considering an upgrade? Perhaps you have upgraded already and are either impressed or disappointed in what you have purchased? Let us know your thoughts and we will be happy to publish them in order to help other organisations to make that important decision, to upgrade or not to upgrade?