A security camera may be needed for owners of luxury villas, as well as for tenants of small apartments who are left unattended in the absence of owners. Someone needs it to ensure the safety of the machine, others use an ip-camera instead of a baby monitor to monitor the child. In any case, the equipment must be reliable and provide a high-quality, detailed picture. In this review we will look at exactly such devices.
For indoor installation ...
KERUI IPC-Z05 (Type A) - camera with alarm for smart home
This camera should be considered as a kind of hub of the smart home security system. You can connect all the necessary sensors and a GSM alarm system to the device, and at the same time configure and synchronize their work. The camera itself is capable of working through an Ethernet network or via Wi-Fi, and its sensor captures video at a resolution of 1280x720 px.
Pros:
- Built-in local siren;
- Wide viewing angles by rotating the lens by 355 ° horizontally and 120 ° vertically - such a camera can be mounted even on the ceiling;
- Sending a video report to the phone when the associated sensors are triggered;
- Use of IR illumination when shooting in the dark with automatic switching to night mode;
- The presence of a microphone and speaker, that is, communication with the camera is two-way;
- The ability to select one of 3 recording modes on a flash drive: continuously, according to a predetermined schedule, or when sensors are triggered;
- An extremely simple setup and regularly updated firmware updates.
Minuses:
- The power cord is a bit short, that is, the camera attachment point will have to be chosen closer to the outlet.
LENOVO Snowman SR - a good addition to the home security system
The wireless ip camera, which has conquered everyone with its cute and futuristic design, really looks like a snowman. But with video surveillance within the confines of one room, this funny model copes perfectly.
Snowman SR is available in two resolutions: 720 and 1080p. The viewing angle of the lens is 140 ° - in a closed room this is enough.
Pros:
- The presence of IR illumination for day and night surveillance - in the night mode, the camera automatically switches to at nightfall;
- It can rotate around its axis by 355 degrees and deviate up and down by 55 °, "looking around" the whole room;
- There is two-way audio communication to communicate with who is in the room;
- The presence of a motion sensor;
- Support for flash cards up to 128 GB (in the younger model only up to 32);
- Built-in Wi – Fi module;
- Ability to send messages from the camera by e-mail with individual frames or the entire video.
Minuses:
- Access to the cloud service from the native application is paid, and not cheap (from $ 6 and up);
- Due to the low frame rate of 15 fps, the 1080p resolution to capture moving objects qualitatively will not work.
JIMI JH09 - portable model
This small camera can be used as a portable one - it is enough to fix the base plate in a suitable place and attach the cylinder of the device to it.
The camera has a medium-sized 1 megapixel matrix, which shoots video with HD resolution (720p). The device connects to the network wirelessly - via 3G or Wi-Fi.
Pros:
- Built-in infrared illumination with a range of 5 m;
- The original magnetic base on which the camera can rotate and tilt in all directions;
- Two-way audio;
- A 120 ° wide angle lens that captures most of the room in which the camera is mounted;
- There are motion and noise sensors that automatically turn on the camera to record; simultaneously with their triggering, an alarm signal is sent to the master phone and a video report is sent;
- Despite the clearly “homemade” performance, the camera is capable of operating at low temperatures down to -20 ° C;
- You can configure recording to a USB flash drive (cards up to 32 GB are supported) or directly to the cloud storage;
- The function of transmitting video in real time via P2P.
Minuses:
- The camera will last no more than 4-8 hours on a battery without mains power.
... and on the street
DAHUA DH-IPC-HFW5231EP - the best camera for perimeter security
An advanced surveillance camera with a 2-megapixel sensor records at a resolution of 1920x1080 and a frame rate of 60 fps. With such characteristics, the picture is very clear, which is difficult to achieve from cheap models. Moreover, this device is the youngest in the line, and on Ali you can find devices of the same series with optics up to 12 Mp.
Pros:
- Hybrid zoom: 4x optical and 16x digital;
- Existence of the WDR mode cleaning the glare and "pulling out" details of the darkened sites;
- Smart infrared light "beats" at a distance of 50 m;
- High sensitivity 0,006 lux;
- The function of analyzing detected objects - moving or stationary (for example, abandoned objects that were not in the tracking zone before);
- Tripwire mode - raising an alarm when a conditional line is crossed;
- It has anti-vandal performance IK10 and withstands harsh weather conditions: 30-degree frost, heat under +60 ° C, dust and rain (protection level ip 67);
- Stable work when the voltage drops in the network;
- PoE connection will reduce the number of hanging wires.
Minuses:
- Sometimes video settings can fly, but such cases are rare.
REOLINK RLC-411WS - face control at the entrance
Outdoor camera with high resolution optics in 5 honest megapixels comes in a metal vandal-proof case and has an adequate level of protection ip 66. The model is equipped with a zoom lens, and therefore its viewing angle can be reduced from 100 to 36 ° if you need to consider people's faces.
The camera also supports the MIMO data transmission technology, which allows increasing the speed of their exchange by 25%.
Pros:
- High resolution shooting 3072x1728 px;
- Optical 4x zoom without losing detail when enlarging the image;
- Powerful infrared diodes - night light range of 35 m;
- Already dual-band Wi-Fi;
- Built-in microphone;
- Removable plugs of the power supply unit - English and euro plugs easily change if necessary;
- Simplicity of management from the cloud application, and you can run it on both a smartphone and a PC - would have access to the Internet;
- A wide selection of video settings;
- The function of pre-recording when the camera is triggered by the motion sensor.
Minuses:
- When downloading to the phone, only the 640x352 video format is available, you can get a picture with a maximum resolution only on a PC.
HIKVISION DS-2CD2185FWD - universal camera for street and indoor
It looks like a standard dome camera - one of those that can be seen under the ceiling in offices and shops - is in fact much more versatile. Thanks to the hermetic case, it can be used for external video surveillance, and the IR illumination will provide round-the-clock photography. The camera is able to rotate around its axis, the tilt of the lens is adjustable from 0-75 °.
Pros:
- High-quality assembly;
- The sensor produces a high-resolution picture 3840x2160 px;
- The ability to install other optics if necessary;
- There is a WDR mode and digital noise control;
- The camera body has good protection against dust and moisture at the level of ip 67, as well as anti-vandal performance IK10;
- Narrowing the viewing angle to 50 ° so that you can see the face in detail;
- The normal quality of shooting is maintained even in low light at 0.01 lux without turning on the IR;
- Analytics mode for perimeter tracking and face recognition;
- The claimed temperature range is -40 .. + 60 ° C;
- Ali has similar models with the ability to record audio (additionally marked with the letters IS) or with a Wi-Fi module (IWS).
Minuses:
- The maximum viewing angle does not exceed 102 °, but it is compensated by the mobility of the “eye”.
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