While I appreciate the tool, the two componies IPVM has picked aren't apples to apples. For example, Pelco versus ACTi where Pelco has many explosion proof cameras in the list (naturally more expensive) and ACTi has zero. Barring that obvious oversight, the tool still has merit but only if common sense is applied.
Average Pricing Calculator Released
Published Dec 09, 2014 05:00 AM
How much should you expect to pay for a 1080p dome or a 3MP outdoor bullet or a camera from Axis?
Figuring out average pricing historically has been tedious and time consuming, forcing you to find, aggregate and tabulate pricing yourself.
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Comments (9)
UM
Undisclosed Manufacturer #1
Dec 09, 2014JH
John Honovich
Dec 09, 2014Thank you undisclosed Schneider Electric employee.
As with pretty much anything, common sense and judgment needs to apply.
The point of those examples were just to give a sense of what could be done.
You can do other calculations on your own like:
- Pelco box cameras, 720p to 1080p: Mean price is $692 and median price is $640
- ACTi box cameras, 720p to 1080p: Mean price is $442 and median price is $380
If that's not specific enough for you, you could narrow it down further to varifocal only or IP66 only, or having IR, etc.
UM
Undisclosed Manufacturer #2
Dec 09, 2014LoL - As with pretty much anything, common sense and judgment needs to apply.
JH
John Honovich
Dec 09, 2014Btw, for those of you looking to do specific comparisons, I recommend using our comparison tool.
For example, let's say an integrator recommended a Pelco Surevision 2.0 camera, the IME319-1EI and a rival recommended the ACTi B87.
Our comparison tool shows feature differences between this Pelco and ACTi. Of course, even with that, there are other considerations, maybe you prefer the support from Pelco (or ACTi) or you tested them and like the 'look' of the image of one over the other, etc.
But again, if you want to generate price and feature comparisons simultaneously, use our comparison tool.
Dale Bullough
Dec 09, 2014John, brilliant tools. I have used the camera calculator to win jobs by disproving other vendor's claims on camera capabilities etc...then I have their confidence and we can have an open discussion about satisfying needs not just finding a number that will close a deal. You are doing a good thing with these. Thank You
U
Undisclosed #3
Dec 14, 2014Great tool. Appreciated.
IK
Itamar Kerbel
Dec 23, 2014Regarding Avigilon - Its not exactly true.
Avigilon does not have image rotation feature on the cameras but as stated you do have this on the VMS and the free camera installtion tool.
But once rotated the rotation is done on the camera side and not on the VMS side meaning if you connect the Avigilon camera to milestone you will get it rotated.
[IPVM Update: Commenter acknowledges below that this is not correct]
For Avigilon there are some option that are on the camera side but only available via the sfotware and there are number of options that are available only via the web interface.
That said - I'm not sure why they did this the way they did.
Ethan Ace
Dec 23, 2014We tried rotating the camera via their software (VMS and camera installation tool) and then connecting to other VMSes, but it does not rotate to 9:16. If there's some step we're missing we'd be happy to try again, but it seems to only function in ACC.
IK
Itamar Kerbel
Dec 24, 2014Sorry - after rechecking you are correct.
I was sure that I did this before (about 6 months ago) for a customer but now I cannot reproduce this.
I'll do some asking around but at the moment please cosider my previous comment as incorrect.