Does anyone have a feature matrix of the American Dynamics camera line? I've been asked to develop one by my customer and was hoping to not re-invent the wheel.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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American Dynamics Camera Matrix
Sean Patton
Apr 20, 2018Are there any specific features you're looking to compare, or are you looking for basics of dome vs box, resolution, vandal resistance ratings?
From a quick sense our Camera Finder tool has 68 Illustra models loaded into it, and I filtered them out for you here: IPVM Camera Finder: Illustra
EDIT: I do see it is missing quite a few Illustra models, so I can reach out to JCI if you have some specific features youre looking for.
Bobby Krecker
Apr 20, 2018I plan to use that as a reference, but that's a bunch of data to manually transfer into Excel.
Sean Patton
Apr 20, 2018Agreed.
I primarily worked with 3 or 4 camera manufacturers as an integrator, and I don't think any of them had a spreadsheet of features as detailed as that. Most of them spend time on developing apps or web portals to help you find a specific camera model.
Bobby Krecker
Apr 20, 2018Thanks for the response Sean.
Simply stated, I would like to collect everything. So to your question, data like Style (box, dome, bullet) Resolution (720p, 1080, 1.3MP, 2.1MP, etc) Vandal Resistance (yes, no {I think the rating may confuse some involved}), Compression (H.264, H.265, etc) IR (yes, no) IR Range (distance in feet) and so on. I was hoping to take the entire data sheet and put it into an Excel workbook.
I'm not certain if I complicated things or clarified them, but I hope this answers your question.
Sean Patton
Apr 20, 2018Bobby Krecker
Apr 20, 2018Bobby Krecker
Apr 20, 2018Sean,
I'm hoping to have the end result resemble this.
Sean Patton
Apr 20, 2018Bobby,
I received the product brochure from JCI, and then broke it down into Excel and organized it best I could. There are a ton of merged cells, and misalignments because of the conversion process, but everything is there. The categories of Pro, Flex and Essentials are on 3 different tabs at the bottom.
Hopefully that helps
Bobby Krecker
Apr 20, 2018THANK YOU!
I will look it over after my travels this afternoon.
I appreciate your assistance and effort!
UM
Undisclosed Manufacturer #1
Apr 20, 2018Always remember that data sheets are useless to do comparisons for imaging quality. Always (as much as possible) shoot out competing cameras in the real world environment to really understand how one is going to perform in a given deployment. Mechanical data (power, temperature range, lens range, etc) usually excepted from this comment.
Bobby Krecker
Apr 23, 2018I completely agree, but I feel data sheets help narrow the search if you can group and compare items with similar features and specifications to meet the unique needs for a particular setting. Why invest time to evaluate a camera without WDR if your environment requires it?
JH
John Honovich
Apr 23, 2018Bobby, that's valid. I would emphasize on the WDR example, we have found in testing that companies with higher WDR dB values can perform worse than those with lower ones, simply because manufacturers are free to choose whatever value they want, without any verification / validation. Likewise, many vendors have marketing terms for WDR, even when a camera is not 'true' WDR. One discussion of this here: Axis WDR vs WDR?
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