This new video shows just how simple it is to install this new outdoor PTZ IP CCTV camera from Axis Communications.

AXIS Q6032-E PTZ Dome Network Camera is an outdoor-ready, high-performance PTZ dome camera designed for easy and reliable installation in demanding surveillance applications. The IP66-rated camera is ideal for use at airports and seaports, as well as for city and perimeter surveillance. Arctic Temperature Control, a new and unique functionality from Axis, is introduced for the first in this camera. It allows the camera to not only function at -40 °C (-40 °F) but also power up at that temperature following a power failure. AXIS Q6032-E is powered through High Power over Ethernet (High PoE) and can operate in temperatures ranging from -40 °C to 50 °C (-40 °F to 122 °F). Key features:

• Outdoor-ready
• Arctic Temperature Control
• High Power over Ethernet (PoE) delivered with midspan
• Extended tilt range of 220º (20º above horizon)
• 35x optical and 12x digital zoom with autofocus
• 128x wide dynamic range
• Multiple H.264 streams
• Local storage

Functionality like this doesn’t come cheap, if you need to cut costs there’s a simple solution – get your Mum to install it!!

Buy the Axis Q6032-E online now from our webshop.

The IP Expo exhibition in October might be interesting:

IP Expo now incorporates four great events: IP’09 (focusing on infrastructure & convergence), VM’09 (exploring virtualisation), and (new for 2009) Wireless ‘09 & Cloud’09 – The UK’s first independent cloud computing event, providing insiprational thinking plus practical solutions for your organisation

It aims to cover four key areas:

• The convergence of voice, data and video over IP Networks
  • Network Optimisation, Security and Business Continuity, Communications & Collaboration and Datacentre Management.
• Virtualisation
  • From servers to storage, data centres to desktops…Unleash the Power of Virtualisation in your Business!
• Cloud Computing
  • Whether building applications in the cloud or integrating cloud services with legacy systems
• Wireless
  • Define, develop and deploy the right mobility and wireless solution

Visit their website to learn more and register – IP Expo 09

The Mobotix Q24 is their latest 3 megapixel hemispheric network camera.

It supercedes the popular Mobotix Q22. The ‘4′ is a new designation from Mobotix and represents their new faster processing engine, we will in due course see this appear in other models in the range e.g. Mobotix ‘D’ series dome cameras and the original ‘M’ series cameras.

The hemispheric operating principles are quite difficult to understand from a cold start and we are often quizzed about just what the Mobotix Q24 can actually do.

The classic application is to ceiling-mount this camera in the centre of a room and gain the ability to monitor and record everything that occurs anywhere in the room, with electronic pan/tilt/zoom capability to zoom into any area of interest (either in Live mode or in recorded footage) to see more detail. But, you can also wall-mount the Q24 and view a 180° wide field-of-view in front of the camera OR set the camera to deliver views of three preset selected sections of the overall scene covered.

Those good people at specialist Mobotix trainers The IP Academy have just released a new video introducing the Q24 and explaining a few of these features, it does a far better job than my words above seem to …

Mobotix Q24 explanation video from The IP Academy

IPCCTV is a complex technical subject and there are almost too many possible solutions to choose from.

We know that our customers like to do lots of research before selecting their network cameras and CCTV recording software so, we have put together a web page to collate all the IPCCTV Video Channels from our Partner manufacturers.

There is a growing trend to use video web services such as YouTube and Vimeo to deliver good promotional videos.

At the time of writing ACTi are obviously an early adopter with nearly two hundred videos on YouTube. Axis only set up an official channel yesterday, and Vivotek uploaded their first videos to Vimeo in the last 24 hrs.

Some of the videos adopt a formal instructive style.

Some are just for fun.

Some have rockin’ soundtracks!

Plainly this presentation medium is going to grow and grow …

Grab a cup of tea, pull up a comfy chair, make sure you’ve got a good broadband connection, switch your speakers on and …

Let the IP CCTV Camera Manufacturers entertain you!!!

We look forward to your comments and feedback below …

The Vivotek IP 7161 Network Camera has just been reviewed in the latest edition of PC Pro magazine.

Their judges preferred the performance of the previously tested Axis P3301 dome camera.

The other camera mentioned in their test, the Vantage VIPC1431EP has been superceded by the ACTi ACM-1231 (and is now a megapixel model).

Click the link to read their full Vivotek IP 7161 Camera Review.

Click here to read PC Pro’s review of the Vantage VIPC1431EP.

And here for their review of the Axis P3301 network dome camera (with some interesting explanations and comparisons of MPEG4 and H.264 video compression).

As reported in The Times Online:

A team of Greenpeace activists hacked in to and intercepted live CCTV footage from a police helicopter during a protest at a power station, to use in a documentary released this week.

Police are investigating how the activists managed to obtain footage beamed from their helicopter to officers on the ground during an invasion of the coal-fired Kingsnorth power station near Rochester in Kent, by Greenpeace members in 2007.

The footage has come to light only this week with the release of the documentary — made free of charge by Nick Broomfield, the Bafta award-winning film-maker — which uses parts of the helicopter footage to show the activists at the top of the 200-metre power station chimney.

Tim Hewke, who co-ordinated the 2007 protest, was reluctant to reveal exactly how Greenpeace intercepted it and said: “Someone, somewhere has a piece of kit that’s used from time to time.”

There’s obviously a hole in their transmission security and Kent Police are looking into it

Full twenty minute Greenpeace video via this link – A Time Comes.

We’re gonna leave any further comments on this one open to you, below …

This is one of the major concerns expressed (typically by IT Managers) when people suggest adding video cameras to their network.

The software can calculate the bandwidth requirements for cameras with all the common resolution specifications and allows you to calculate the effects of varying resolution, frame rates, numbers of cameras, the video compression standard (H.264, MPEG4, MJPEG) etc.

You can even estimate the impact of varying amounts of motion activity in the scene.

See below for more information on the settable parameters, or click the image above to visit their website.

You can download and run a FREE 45-day evaluation copy of this software from their website, and if you decide to buy it’s just £39 to licence the software for continued use.

• Resolution – Camera resolution in pixels. You can select resolution from the drop-down list. The list contains most popular PAL and NTSC camera resolutions (like 352×288 CIF PAL, 704×576 4 CIF PAL) as well as some typical network cameras resolutions (like 640×480) including megapixel resolutions (1280×1024, 1600×1200), HD and full HD resolutions (1920×1080) as well as others.
• Compression – Video compression. You can choose from MPEG4, H.264, four levels of Motion JPEG (MJPG) compression (from Low to High) and “RAW Data”. If you use Motion JPEG you can use different JPEG compression levels. If you use low MJPEG compression (level 10) you get best quality of picture and about 10 times lower frame size. If you use Medium MJPEG compression (level 20) you usually obtain a good picture quality and an optimal Quality/Frame Size ratio. With a JPEG level of more than 50 your picture becomes bad for video surveillance purpose.
• FPS – Frames Per Second. Typical FPS for video surveillance system is from 5 to 15 frames per second. In some applications (like CCTV in casino) it is required to use higher speed values (25-60 FPS). Alternative name for FPS is IPS (Images Per Second).
• Days – Required length of video archive in days (24 hours). Used for storage space calculation.
• Cameras – Number of cameras in your CCTV installation with the same parameters.
• Recording % – Estimated motion recording activity. 100% for constant recording. This parameter is used to calculate disk storage space in case the video is recorded on a schedule or on a motion detector.
• Image Complexity – Frames from some CCTV cameras are more detailed and have a higher frame size.
• Motion % – Motion activity (100% for constant activity). This parameter is used for MPEG4 and H.264 bandwidth estimation.

Firstly, let’s explain what a vari-focal CCTV lens is – it is simply a lens which allows you to manually adust the field of view being monitored by the camera to exactly that which you wish your surveillance to cover.

Once upon a time we only had fixed focal length lenses available to us e.g. 4mm, 8mm,12mm, etc. These lenses provided a certain field of view, perhaps a horizontal viewing angle of 60° and that was what you got i.e. the view could not be adjusted. A set focal length lens provides a fixed field of view (horizontal and vertical viewing angle).

With the advent of the varifocal CCTV lens we were able to adjust the scene covered / field of view at the point of commissioning, so that only the area which we wished to cover was ’seen’ by the camera. This allowed us to concentrate all of the camera’s available resolution onto the important area. For this reason vari-focal lenses are now used in the vast majority of all new CCTV installations.

With all of the currently available vari-focal lenses, as the field of view is adjusted, you then need to re-focus the lens at each scene setting. With their new ‘Varifocal Plus’ lens Pentax have developed technology which allows the lens to stay in focus as you manually zoom.

The guys on the stand weren’t revealing too much about how Pentax had achieved this first, they simply said that it utilised technology transfer from their lenses for the Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera market.

Precise focusing of CCTV camera lens combinations is something which many end-users struggle with, so this new lens from Pentax should bring great benefit to many end-users and field engineers.

It’s a 1.3 megapixel lens and should be available Q3 2009 for a price in the region of just £99!

Click the image to the right to visit the new page in our webshop and to download the datasheet from there for further information.

NB This lens will only work with cameras which have a lens connection socket and can be back-focused with an adjuster ring at the front of the camera (if you need any further help or information then give us a call on 01304 827 609).

VCC-HD4000P Full High Definition (1920×1080p) Network Camera

The SANYO VCC-HDN4000P is a full High Definition (HD) network camera equipped with the world’s first 4 million pixel lens which has been matched with a 4 million pixel progressive scan sensor to deliver incredibly sharp, crystal clear images.

A built-in 10 x optical zoom makes the VCC-HDN4000P an ideal solution for banking and retail environments or indeed an application where there is a requirement for close up detail of any activity.

The VCC-HDN4000P further capitalizes on advances in technology by the dual streaming of H.264 and JPEG, enabling simultaneous high definition recording and real time H.264 live monitoring across a network. An HDMI output allows the full quality of the camera’s images to be observed on an HD monitor, whilst there is an option to display the video onto an analogue monitor at a remarkable 680 TV lines.

On-board recording is via the camera’s SD/SDHC memory card or via USB onto an external hard drive. Other key features include motion detection, privacy masking, automatic transmission/email of images upon alarm and Power over Ethernet support, whilst a 16 x digital zoom provides the VCC-HDN4000P with a combined 160 x zoom capability.

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Last week I spent a couple of days out of the office at the International Fire & SECurity (IFSEC) show at the NEC in Birmingham.

This was my tenth year of visiting IFSEC, and although it looked a little different this year (new halls and visitor numbers down a little) I’m pleased to report that the show is still going strong.

I’ve only had time so far to upload some images and a few notes to our Picasa web album, but rest assured that as usual much was learned and there’s more to say.

Click here to see our snapshot view of IFSEC 2009, and rest assured that we’ll add more detailed blog articles over the next few days.

If you went to IFSEC we’d be happy for you to add your thoughts on this year’s show in the comments below …