Camera Comparison Tool Released

When comparing cameras of different resolutions you should add a "replacement" factor. EG: Camera1 is 5MP it can replace 2.5 units of Camera2, which is 2MP.

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Any possibility of adding support for Multicast via ONVIF? I know it's a rather unique specification but the problem I've encountered is that many manufacturers actually don't even know if their cameras have that capability or not. Way too many manufacturers have claimed support but when we tried to get that function to work, it did not.

Yes, Multicast via ONVIF. Our system, as configured, requires that capability.

We could add servers to alleviate that need but we don't want to spend the money or add to the system's complexity and to its rack space, cooling and power requirements.

Any plans in the future to be able to compare more than 2 cameras at once?

hi John,

thank you for sharing this tool!

just a question: What is the ownership status of that information (it is yours or respective manufacturers), and do you have an API to access it from 3rd party applications?

sorry if this is something well-known -- i am a nubie here????

Hi John, sorry for late reply!

My hypothesis is that there may be a value in comparing general view with ONVIF-centric view.

Let try with your example: Axis Q1615-E.

features in your database - Axis - Q1615-E

features in ONVIF database - http://www.onvif.org/DesktopModules/ONVIF_PAProductsDisplay/ONVIF_ViewProductFile.aspx?FilePath=6354648381716032462XMLFileDoc.xml

can we see any special in ONVIF report? yes, a bit:

• camera is fast - typical command processed in 23 milliseconds (yes, this is not exellent, but please compare with other cameras!!!)
• camera have IPv6 support (btw, is it really a need in closed networks?) and DDNS - so suitable for cloud installations
• does not support HTTPS (at least from ONVIF point of view)
• support multicast ([Feature]RTPMulticastUDP[/Feature]) - this is answering Carl's question
• support PTZ (strange! may be digital PTZ?)
• support configurable alarm input and output (1:1)
• other features are either ONVIF-specific either not interesting

what is not there:

• audio full-duplex (ONVIF recognized only direct link, as there is no backchannel feature). this is typical by now, may be a change next year
• Auto-Iris / Auto-Focus / Number of independent channels - as camera is using old version of ONVIF there are no such info in XML

what is explicitly missed - ProfileG feature (on-board storage)

what I am asking you: is it possible to compare your database (via web interface. Now I know that most interesting data is for PRO-only) with ONVIF database? Will it be possible to share aggregate statistics (without disclosing PRO-only RAW data) to 3rd parties? Naturally, I can share it with you if you are interested.

Theres been alot in the news about artificial intelligence replacing the human race.....your tools might be replacing us before long! Love them though so keep improving them. I look forward to the day I can shoot a short video tour of a site, plug it into your "future tool" and have the entire design, complete with drawings and parts list spit out! :) Am I asking for too much?

Noticed something weird in camera finder:

From the opening screen it seems to be filtering ~300 cameras right off the top.

Also, not that it's necessarily wrong, but does the average price seem to be a little on the high side at $1674, considering the only mfrs with higher avg. prices than that are Pelco ($2200) and AD ($2000)?

It's fun and a good exercise to try to find the most dissimilar cameras you can, it's harder than you might think to find one with just 2x the differences...