Author: Virginia Fair

IP Surveillance Camera Systems Can Play a Non-security Role in Retail

IP surveillance camera systems

At the end of any day, retail businesses equipped with IP camera security systems are sitting on a valuable cache of high resolution video.  Conventional thinking would hold with its being stored for a set period of time, and if no forensic need arises, being deleted.

However, forward thinking  management recognizes its value in optimizing a store’s bottom line performance.

Continue reading “IP Surveillance Camera Systems Can Play a Non-security Role in Retail”

Sony SNC-WR632

The SNC-WR632 is part of the Sony W-series of PTZ IP camera systems. Representing the high-performance outdoor model, this 2.0-megapixel camera is a good choice for your greater exterior surveillance needs, like parking lots, stadiums, and other such areas.

The Sony W-series is known for its superior performance. Each of these camera systems is highly reliable, offering sophisticated video technology to increase your chances of identifying an individual’s face in a wide range of applications.

As a PTZ, or pan, tilt, zoom camera system, this unit can be remotely manipulated with a full, 360° endless rotation, a 220° tilt, and a maximum optical zoom of 30x.

Intelligent Surveillance Software

This camera system features intelligent video and audio analytics, including intelligent motion detection, face detection, object removed, object left behind, passing, and intrusion detection.

Video Quality

This camera system features a resolution of 2.0 megapixels, at 1920 x 1080 and a maximum frame rate of 60 fps.

A sophisticated video processing chip helps the camera to capture quality images under even challenging lighting conditions. With a 130 dB of wide dynamic range, it can recognize objects against a very bright background. Meanwhile, a low-light sensitivity of 1.4 lx for color images and 0.15 lux for black and white images lets you continue to record under dark conditions.

A gyro-based image stabilizer provides for greater clarity when viewing objects at a distance. Even if the camera is mounted on a less-than-stationary surface, you can still expect to recognize a face viewed at 30x zoom.

Extras and Peripherals

The camera has a slot for an optional SD/SDHC memory card for local audio and video recording. Recording to the memory card can be triggered by events, like attempts to tamper with the camera system.

Protective Features

This camera has tamper detection, allowing it to trigger an alarm when it is interfered with.

Designed for outdoor use, this unit is IK10-rated for vandal resistance and IP66-rated against environmental hazards like water and dust. It can also operate reliably in temperatures from -40C to 50C.

Sony SNC-WR602

The SNC-WR602 is part of the Sony W-series of PTZ IP camera systems. Representing the economical outdoor model, this 1.3-megapixel camera is a good choice for your smaller exterior surveillance needs, like front doors, small parking lots, or similar regions.

The Sony W-series is known for its superior performance. Each of these camera systems is highly reliable, offering sophisticated video technology to increase your chances of identifying an individual’s face in a wide range of applications.

As a PTZ, or pan, tilt, zoom camera system, this unit can be remotely manipulated with a full, 360° endless rotation, a 220° tilt, and a maximum optical zoom of 30x.

Intelligent Surveillance Software

This camera system features intelligent video and audio analytics, including intelligent motion detection, face detection, object removed, object left behind, passing, and intrusion detection.

Video Quality

This camera system features a resolution of 1.3 megapixels, at 1280 x 1024 and a maximum frame rate of 60 fps.

A sophisticated video processing chip helps the camera to capture quality images under even challenging lighting conditions. With a 130 dB of wide dynamic range, it can recognize objects against a very bright background. Meanwhile, a low-light sensitivity of 1.0 lx for color images and 0.03 lux for black and white images lets you continue to record under dark conditions.

A gyro-based image stabilizer provides for greater clarity when viewing objects at a distance. Even if the camera is mounted on a less-than-stationary surface, you can still expect to recognize a face viewed at 30x zoom.

Extras and Peripherals

The camera has a slot for an optional SD/SDHC memory card for local audio and video recording. Recording to the memory card can be triggered by events, like attempts to tamper with the camera system.

Protective Features

This camera has tamper detection, allowing it to trigger an alarm when it is interfered with.

Designed for outdoor use, this unit is IK10-rated for vandal resistance and IP66-rated against environmental hazards like water and dust. It can also operate reliably in temperatures from -40C to 50C.

Sony SNC-WR630

The SNC-WR630 is part of the Sony W-series of PTZ IP camera systems. Representing the high-performance indoor model, this 2.0 megapixel camera is a good choice for any interior location where you need superior resolution and low-light sensitivity, like banks, malls, and casinos.

The Sony W-series is known for its superior performance. Each of these camera systems is highly reliable, offering sophisticated video technology to increase your chances of identifying an individual’s face in a wide range of applications.

As a PTZ, or pan, tilt, zoom camera system, this unit can be remotely manipulated with a full, 360° endless rotation, a 220° tilt, and a maximum optical zoom of 30x.

Intelligent Surveillance Software

This camera system features intelligent video and audio analytics, including intelligent motion detection, face detection, object removed, object left behind, passing, and intrusion detection.

Video Quality

This camera system features a resolution of 2.0 megapixels, at 1920 x 1080 and a maximum frame rate of 60 fps.

A sophisticated video processing chip helps the camera to capture quality images under even challenging lighting conditions. With a 130 dB of wide dynamic range, it can recognize objects against a very bright background. Meanwhile, a low-light sensitivity of 1.4 lx for color images and 0.15 lux for black and white images lets you continue to record under dark conditions.

A gyro-based image stabilizer provides for greater clarity when viewing objects at a distance. Even if the camera is mounted on a less-than-stationary surface, you can still expect to recognize a face viewed at 30x zoom.

Extras and Peripherals

The camera has a slot for an optional SD/SDHC memory card for local audio and video recording. Recording to the memory card can be triggered by events, like attempts to tamper with the camera system.

Protective Features

This camera has tamper detection, allowing it to trigger an alarm when it is interfered with.

Sony SNC-WR600

The SNC-WR600 is part of the Sony W-series of PTZ IP camera systems. Representing the economical indoor model, this 1.3-megapixel camera is a good choice for smaller interior locations like offices, entrance ways, and similar rooms.

The Sony W-series is known for its superior performance. Each of these camera systems is highly reliable, offering sophisticated video technology to increase your chances of identifying an individual’s face in a wide range of applications.

As a PTZ, or pan, tilt, zoom camera system, this unit can be remotely manipulated with a full, 360° endless rotation, a 220° tilt, and a maximum optical zoom of 30x.

Intelligent Surveillance Software

This camera system features intelligent video and audio analytics, including intelligent motion detection, face detection, object removed, object left behind, passing, and intrusion detection.

Video Quality

This camera system features a resolution of 1.3 megapixels, at 1280 x 1024 and a maximum frame rate of 60 fps.

A sophisticated video processing chip helps the camera to capture quality images under even challenging lighting conditions. With a 130 dB of wide dynamic range, it can recognize objects against a very bright background. Meanwhile, a low-light sensitivity of 1.0 lx for color images and 0.03 lux for black and white images lets you continue to record under dark conditions.

A gyro-based image stabilizer provides for greater clarity when viewing objects at a distance. Even if the camera is mounted on a less-than-stationary surface, you can still expect to recognize a face viewed at 30x zoom.

Extras and Peripherals

The camera has a slot for an optional SD/SDHC memory card for local audio and video recording. Recording to the memory card can be triggered by events, like attempts to tamper with the camera system.

Protective Features

This camera has tamper detection, allowing it to trigger an alarm when it is interfered with.

An IP Camera with WDR Can Produce a Picture Worth 1,000 Words

IP camera systems

IP cameras with Wide Dynamic Range capability are the answer to monitoring areas where bright illumination coexists and contrasts with low light or shadows within the camera’s field of view. That’s why we’ve written about them and our sales engineers have recommended them so often. But who would believe one of Kintronics “very own” would find himself in a situation where a camera with WDR might have made things a lot easier for the detectives charged with identifying the suspects caught on a security camera?

Continue reading “An IP Camera with WDR Can Produce a Picture Worth 1,000 Words”

Vivotek IP8372

The Vivotek IP8372 is a high-performance, 5-megapixel bullet camera system. With a durable protective casing and a sophisticated night vision capability, this camera is ideally designed for outdoor surveillance. A good choice for parking lots, outdoor sports complexes, building exteriors, and similar locations.

Intelligent Surveillance Software
The IP8372 comes with triple-window video motion detection. The system can be programed to trigger alarms or events with a series of sophisticated sensory functions, including video motion detection, which can discern when something moves within the field of vision, or camera tampering detection, which can discern when the camera is compromised.

Video Quality
This system comes with a full 5 megapixel video, with 1080p HD resolution. Frame rates and resolutions are adjustable, with a frame rate of up to 30 fps available at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 and a frame rate of up to 13 fps at a resolution of 2560 x 1920. Combined with H.264/MPEG-4/MJPEG compression technology, this is a camera that offers superior image smoothness and width of coverage.

The camera is also armed with an auto-iris lens, an IR-cut filter, and IR illuminators with a range of thirty meters to provide for clear video recording under both light and dark conditions.

Users of this system can take advantage of the ePTZ function, which enables them to remotely zoom in and focus upon a region of interest (ROI) in the field of view.

Extras and Peripherals
This camera features a built-in microSD/SDHC/SDXC memory card slot, allowing for on-board data storage in the event that the camera becomes disconnected from the network.

The camera also supports audio input and output, with an external microphone and an audio output line.

Optional accessories allow for versatile camera mounting, wireless capabilities, and power adaptations.

Protective Features
IP67-rated housing protects the camera system from environmental effects like rain and dust, ensuring continued operation in all weather conditions.

To protect against tampering, the tampering detection function allows the camera to trigger an alarm if it is suddenly moved, struck, or obstructed. The mounting bracket also provides containment for the cables, protecting them from being cut.

Video Management Software and IP Door Control – Partners in Security

IP Cameras with IP Door Access

Access control used to be a mostly mechanical application with basic functions until IP door control software breathed new possibilities into it.

  • Used alone,  door control systems can deny unauthorized access to secure areas but it provides no visual evidence as to just who an intruder is.
  • On its own, video management software can report on an event that has happened or is happening, but it cannot act upon it.
Continue reading “Video Management Software and IP Door Control – Partners in Security”

What Twenty-First Century Security Guards Need to Know About IP Cameras

IP Camera Security Systems

Today’s security professional’s duties bear little resemblance to those of the security guard of the mid-twentieth century. Gone are the days when padlocks and fences were sufficient to keep intruders at bay; back when a guard’s duties consisted of making patrols and authorizing admittance consisted of the wave of a hand.

When the twenty-first century ushered in the adoption of IP camera systems, a new era of security dawned. Anyone hoping to become a security professional today needs, at the very minimum, working knowledge of IP cameras and video management software.

Continue reading “What Twenty-First Century Security Guards Need to Know About IP Cameras”

Samsung SNP-6320H

The SNP-6320H is part of the Samsung family of PTZ dome IP camera systems. As a PTZ, or pan, tilt, zoom system, it is ideally suited for monitoring a particularly large space. The camera is capable of endless, 360° rotations and a 210° tilt, allowing you to effectively monitor an area that might otherwise take several cameras to fully cover.

The 6320H model is designed for outdoor use, offering protective features that are not found in the indoor Samsung SNP 6320. It is recommended for large, exterior locations like parking lots, and outdoor sports complexes.

Intelligent Surveillance Software

Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) software in the 6320H system offers many sophisticated tools in automatically monitoring activity. Cameras can be programmed to patrol the area, focusing on unusual activity as needed. Face detection allows it to discern when there are people within the monitored area. Tripwire and enter/exit direction lets it know when someone or something passes through the perimeter. Object appear/disappear detection lets it know when there are foreign or missing objects within sight.

Video Quality

This IP camera system captures high quality color video, with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 and an ultra fast frame rate of 60fps. Its sophisticated light sensitivity features allow it to produce images of scenes that contain both very bright and very dark areas. Under poor weather conditions, like rain, fog, or thick smoke, the Defog feature kicks in to reduce loss of clarity. Under vibrating conditions, the Digital Image Stabilization can negate the effect on your image.

Extras and Peripherals

The camera has a built-in SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card slot, allowing for local video storage that can be retrieved remotely by authorized users. It can also interface with a local PA system to provide support for bi-directional audio.

Protective Features

This IP camera system is specially equipped for outdoor use, with a sophisticated anti-tampering mechanism that sends out an alert if the camera is moved without authorization or if the lens has paint sprayed over it. It also comes with a heater to combat the effects of extreme weather conditions.