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Honeywell and Sureview join forces.

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Honeywell and Sureview have joined forced to enable Honeywell products to integrate with IMMIX video management software. The first of Honeywell’s products to be integrated will be WIN-PAK access control one of Honeywell’s premium products. The joining of these two companies will in time enable video and intruder alarms to be displayed on one single GUI when mixing different technologies from both Honeywell and other manufacturers.

Honeywell IMMIXIt is proof that open protocols are the way forward with many manufacturers realizing that integrated security requires the use of both new and legacy kit to be used when upgrading customers to fully integrated security systems .

PTZ cameras – too expensive?

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“PTZ cameras are too dear, I will have have statics”

makes sense, but don’t moan that your static camera looking at 100m x 100m ‘has no detail’ – laws of physics says it can’t if it isn’t able to move or zoom, don’t try and defy those laws!

Dahua DVR and camera range.

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Dahua logoDahua are a progressive manufacturer who have captivated the CCTV market
place across Asia and are making steady inroads into both the European
and American market. Over the next few months we will be reviewing Dahua
CCTV products and how the company as a whole is progressing.
Today we look at how Dahua have introduced the new SD6681-HN 1.3
megapixel PTZ dome camera.

Dahua

This IP PTZ dome camera boast many features
including the Sony CCD chip that allows quality images and progressive
scan. A powerful 18:1 optical zoom lens gives the unit the ability to
cover large areas but still give the end user the quality images that
they require.

As with all domes the ability to be able to operate in areas of low light
is essential and the Dahua IP PTZ dome camera comes equipped with a
day/night auto iris and auto focus lens that ensures the end user will
be able to gain quality images in difficult lighting situations. Dahua
appreciate that high speed panning means alarms can be seen quickly and
the SD6681-HN has a pan speed of up to 400 degrees per second and
endless pan rotation. IP PTZ domes need redundancy when it comes to
recording and an on board hot swappable SD card gives this Dahua camera
32 gig of on board memory should the primary recording solution fail.
Complete with a built in web-server remote access to the camera means
servicing is easy and firmware upgrades can be carried out without
inconvenience to the customer. In addition Access from the web is simple.

Dahua iPhone
So Dahua is a product we should be keeping an eye on in the future but
the SD6681-HN is here right now …check out the Dahua website today.

iPhone is STILL selling CCTV – Part 2 !

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CCTV integrated with iPhone, as we reported back in December 2010 was starting to be extremely instrumental in the close of a CCTV order.

It seems that momentum has not let up!

CCTV iphone

Talking to a leading Manufacturer, sales of their DVR systems have leapt up by 25% – JUST BECAUSE OF THE THEIR IPHONE APP !!!!

Discussing further, it appears that installer/integrator sales guys, armed with their iPhones/iPods/iPads, are visiting customers and just at the point of discussing the recording solution, whipping out their iDevice (!!) and showing the end user cameras being viewed live and even moving PTZ Dome cameras using the iDevice’s touchscreen capabilities……..of course, the end user, probably armed with his/her own iDevice, can instantly see the benefit of being able to view live footage on what is ostensibly a consumer product range that pretty much everyone owns these days!!!

But 25% increase??!! that’s crazy yet quite exciting……it means that CCTV is starting to be viewed with more interest by the consumer…….rather than just a business tool that sadly is often considered a necessary evil, customers can now sit in the comfort of their home, make a connection to site, analyse what they are viewing and make informed decisions on their application…..

And it doesn’t stop at iDevices…….BlackBerries have apps too to do the same thing……..

As Apple continues their World Take Over Dominance (!) then it looks like forward thinking manufacturers are using this widely used and available consumer product to push themselves in front of more and more customers!

And….we like that!

What do you think?

Video management software the battle has begun – Price War

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Video management software, we guessed it would happen – for IP to really take off, prices have to fall, certainly to a comparable level of analogue, before mass acceptance can take place

We learned recently that Milestone, long the main pioneers of video management software, have halved the cost of their entry level VMS……and at the same time, released a completely brand new version for absolutely FREE !

VMS

We like free…..free stands for FREEdom to try, use, decide……and Milestone have been an established brand in this market arena for some time

So what has this done for the price range for VMS systems pricing?

Well, beginning of 2010 average camera price per licence was around £70-100 – this latest buzz by Milestone changes that to a price range of FREE to around £30……if you are selling video management software… that will help gain traction!!