Has anyone used the newly released ADC (Alarm Dot Com) Video Analytics? I tried Googling for reviews but nothing exists yet. Last year Alarm.com bought ObjectVideo and they have just released their "advanced video analytics". It's $1 more per account for dealers and works with the cheap plastic Vivotek OEM ADC cameras.
Anyone who knows ADC Video will know they they have ridiculous caps on video clips (packages are 1,000 clips/month, 6,000 clips/mont etc). To put this in perspective, a rainy day produces 2000+ clips in a single day. ADC does not support a "rolling" 1000 clips, this is a hard cap limit. In other words, on Sep 1st it rains and you use your 1000 clips and have no video until Sep 30th rolls around and you get refreshed! Or you upgrade to 6000 clips/month and you get recordings for Sep 1st, 2nd, 3rd and max out on Sep 4th and go the next 26 days of September with no video.
ADC offers an "SVR" (Stream Video Recorder) as a solution to the above clip limitation. The SVR is just a local NVR with built-in HDD for $200 range, but it cannot be configured to record motion detection events, it simply records continuously, catapulting us back to the 80's where we all installed Time Lapse VCRs with VHS tapes.
As a result of the clip limitation and ridiculous SVR we never offer ADC Video. In the handful of times we have sold/installed it, every single time we ended up ripping it all out in favour of a traditiona DVR/NVR solution. This is no exaggeration - every single time. Our local ADC rep doesn't give a shit, and loves to argue. He explained two points. #1 - ADC has thousands of dealers who are very successful with ADC Video Solutions and are SUPER happy, so we are the problem. #2 - Video Analytics are coming soon and will fix all.
Which leads me back to the original question. ADC Video Analytics - anyone tried it? Is it any good?
And bonus question for anyone high up with ADC - is there some reason you don't/won't listen to your customers? This is such a simple problem to solve. #1 - Add an unlimited clips option OR #2 - Create a "rolling" 1000 clips limitation (1st in, 1st out) OR #3 - Turn on motion recording on your SVR.
Thanks!
