We are happy to take questions on specific scenes or cameras, and consider other test scenarios. When discussing your own bandwidth experiences, keep in mind whether they have been normalized or not, and the variances this may cause.
IP Camera Bandwidth / Storage Shootout
Published Mar 05, 2014 05:00 AM
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Comments (20)
Ethan Ace
Mar 05, 2014RW
Rukmini Wilson
Mar 06, 2014Comprehensive! One question I have (also relating to the forerunner camera compression test by Derek) is for at least the Bosch, Derek seemed to indicate a seperate q setting for i vs p frames, does your test tool take this into account and how?
Ethan Ace
Mar 06, 2014Bosch does include separate Q settings for I and P frames. Well technically it's one fixed setting plus a delta setting, so you don't directly set them with a Q value. AVInaptic measures an overall average of quantization, which we standardized to 28.
UI
Undisclosed Integrator #1
Mar 06, 2014Excellent report. I hoped though that Arecont is included next as Arecont has a lot of claims that many people dont believe whole heartedly
MM
Marian Maroszek
Mar 06, 2014Hello.
What do you mean by saying "Arecont has a lot of claims that many people dont believe whole heartedly". What "claims"?
RW
Rukmini Wilson
Mar 06, 2014The undisclosed maybe referring to something like this:
The higher-resolution panoramic view of the new 20 megapixel/180-degree H.264 camera can be used to replace up to 65 conventional cameras.
Taken from something like this.
MM
Marian Maroszek
Mar 07, 2014I know this "great marketing" :-) . I thought that by "claims" Undisclosed A Integrator meant something related to the topic (bandwidth, storage). Is it only my observation that Arecont has problems with keeping CBR really constant?
JE
Jeremy Ellis
Mar 06, 2014How did Mobotix make it into the report for VMD, but you did not have one of their cameras in the shootout?
This report helped to solidify the "Q" rating bits of knowledge I had.
Thanks!
Ethan Ace
Mar 06, 2014Because Mobotix is one of few manufacturers doing "advanced" VMD, so it was tested along with Axis months ago. That test ties into this one as far as storage reduction goes, a key factor.
UM
Undisclosed Manufacturer #2
Mar 06, 2014can you remind me why Panasonic is not included?
Ethan Ace
Mar 06, 2014A couple reasons. They haven't released much in the past year or so, so testing the two-year-old SP509 against other cameras which are new generation is unfair. Second, integrator interest has dropped, with only a few integrators citing them as a favorite in our last survey, down from being one of the most popular.
That being said, I just got an email talking about their new generation the other day, which is claiming better performance all around. We'll keep an eye on that at least.
TR
Tim Russell
Mar 06, 2014Incredible report, thank you.
JH
John Honovich
Mar 06, 2014Thanks for the feedback everyone.
I wanted to make it clear that we will adopt this same methodology to future tests so as we test other cameras we can use this as a baseline and contrast their performance to this set. This will help determine true bandwidth savings / issues.
TR
Tim Russell
Mar 06, 2014Would it be cheeky to ask if you could translate this into the amount of days each camera would have on a set amount of storage ?
SS
Sakchai Somsuk
Mar 07, 2014I really like your testing procedure, but i have doubt about which camera brand and camera model you wish to make a test. Can you make a test for all top 10 world class IP surveillance manufacturer?, i saw a not famous IP Camera brand like GeoVision, Q-See, Dahua on the list, and you abandon some big name in the industry like VIVOTEK, Pelco, Panasonic and some Brand you take 2 cameras which is not quite fair for evaluation.
Please make sure that you are doing a fair pick up the camera for test from the well known manufacturer.
JH
John Honovich
Mar 07, 2014Sakchai,
Dahua is one of the 10 biggest manufacturers in the world so they may not be as 'famous' to you, but they are a very big player.
There are lots of camera manufacturers. We'll continue to test them (we have an upcoming test on Pelco, and will test the new Panasonics as they roll out). We've tested a few Vivotek cameras in the past year and will continue to test them.
John
SS
Sakchai Somsuk
Mar 07, 2014Dear John,
I am a big fan of AXIS and VIVOTEK IP Camera, i thnk it is quite good quality camera. I looking forward to see the comparison between Top10 IP Camera Manufacturer.
Could you provide me an information of who is TOP10 Network Camera for the year 2014 ? (Sales Performance in 2013)
So we can make sure we are choosing the right product to implement in my project.
JH
John Honovich
Mar 07, 2014No, we strongly discourage people making decisions based on sales numbers, as they often do not reflect what is the best quality or best fit for specific applications.
You may want to check out Favorite IP Camera Manufacturers 2014 for color commentary on what others are choosing and why.
U
Undisclosed
Mar 17, 2014these vendors don't even call the settings by the same terminology in some cases. wish you had documented what settings you use (compare Axis to Bosch, for example.) It's very hard to do apples-to-apples.
JH
John Honovich
Mar 17, 2014Rodney, we have documented it here: IP Camera Manufacturer Compression Comparison. Here's the key table:
