Great feature especially for doing competitor comparison spreadsheets!
BestMatch Any Camera Manufacturer
Published Oct 22, 2015 04:00 AM
BestMatch is IPVM's exclusive camera comparison algorithm, that shows what cameras have the closest specifications to any other camera. This lets you find alternative options and save significant money for the same feature sets.
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Comments (15)
Michael Budalich
Oct 22, 2015U
Undisclosed #1
Oct 22, 2015Just saved me a bundle!
Just kidding, it's great!
JH
John Honovich
Oct 22, 2015You're a comedian!
There are going to be some edge cases like that, especially when comparing 2 completely different manufacturers, so I have been thinking about setting some minimal match level to not show in some cases. I've filed this as an issue/bug. Thanks.
JH
John Honovich
Oct 27, 2015Ok, here you go:
We set it a minimum score to show any results. This will stop weird mismatches for companies that really do not have anything comparable.
Also, I realized that our resolution matching needs to be adjusted to more heavily penalize cameras with much lower resolution against super high res one. That is in queue.
U
Undisclosed #1
Oct 27, 2015There are no close matches between Foscam and the Avigilon 30L-H4PRO-B
Thanks! Works for me, though Avigilon fans were hoping for the haughty:
Nothing compares with Avigilon.
JH
John Honovich
Nov 02, 2015Update: we have modified the algorithm to more heavily weight closer resolution matches. This helps especially for very high resolution cameras.
Boris Bronstein
Oct 22, 2015Amazing tool! Very easy and convenient. We ran a few cameras, and matches, in most cases were very relevant.
Not always, though. For example, if you put Vivotek’s IB8338-H, you’re getting many cameras without WDR, while IB8338-H is billed as high-performance WRD camera.
And I know that this is hard to overcome, but prices skew results quite a bit. Even when I follow the link to Google Shopping, the actual price there doesn’t support the number in the database. For example, the price for the same IB8338-H is listed in the tool as $630 (as ‘Estimate US online price’), but if you go to Google Shopping, the highest price is $562, while average is no more than $470
U
Undisclosed #1
Oct 22, 2015Not always, though. For example, if you put Vivotek’s IB8338-H, you’re getting many cameras without WDR...
Were there better Vivotek matches than the ones shown though? Some specs are not going to align, determining which would make or break the result would border on AI, IMHO.
U
Undisclosed #1
Oct 22, 2015Coincidentally I was just ordering something from mouser and noticed how they handle this situation. You check the attributes that are important to you.
JH
John Honovich
Oct 22, 2015Boris, good feedback.
On WDR, we do factor in who has true WDR but it is not exclusive, meaning that it is one of the weights used but not matching on that one feature will not ommit the result.
As for price, my guess is that Vivotek has dropped their pricing in the past year. Given the state of the industry, I bet there is a lot of price dropping recently. I am having one of our guys go and price check all models over the next 2 weeks so we can update with most current pricing. Thanks!
MM
Michael Miller
Oct 22, 2015Nice work! One issue with your list of Avigilon cameras is about half of the part numbers are for old cameras that are EOL. Any plans to update the Avigilon list to current models?
JH
John Honovich
Oct 22, 2015MM
Michael Miller
Oct 22, 2015All the H3a cameras you have listed (and the one you use to test) has been EOL and replaced with new model numbers. The L line has also been EOL.
U
Undisclosed #1
Oct 24, 2015Perhaps an EOL flag should be added to the database, since just because they are EOL doesn't mean they are OOS.
JH
John Honovich
Oct 26, 2015We have an EOL flag, we need to determine how to show / not show. Default now is to hide completely. Perhaps we can show all but mark which are EOL or include an option to let people add it EOL models.