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Comments (53)
John Honovich
Rob, good work on this!
We'd like to do more tests on startups that are coming into the video surveillance market. Camect is obviously early but they have enough together that we think it has potential to become a player in the NVR market that wants a lower cost, high-performance, non-Hikua recorder. We will see how they evolve.
If you are a startup or know a startup that has an up and coming product that you want IPVM to test, email us info@ipvm.com or john@ipvm.com, thanks.
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Ross Vander Klok
I can't wait to see where Camect is a year from now! Once they overcome some of the issues listed I would be very interested. Not being locked into some of the proprietary systems is well worth it.
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Undisclosed Integrator #1
Interesting to see the amount of analytics running on that NUC PC. Does it require a net connection to work or is it doing it offline?
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Rob Kilpatrick
Camect is using an Intel Celeron Apollo lake processor (J3455) with 4 cores/4 threads @ 1.50 Ghz. and 4GB of RAM to power their onboard analytics
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Undisclosed #2
Solid evaluations. Thanks IPVM!
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Undisclosed #4
Does anyone else find it ironic that, as good as this AI is, it fails on a test which would never fail on the cheapest dvr from 5 yrs ago?
CPU vs GPU
CPU: Did you see that?
GPU: See what?
CPU: Something or someone is in motion; I’m quite sure, you know there was a time before AI, when I was perfectly capable of detecting motion on my own.
GPU: Yes, the dark ages, back when shadows and fall foliage were considered the biggest threats to humanity...
CPU: Ha! You don’t know what it was, do you, Mr. AI, with all your fancy logic and neural bs?
GPU: Look, I don’t have to put up with this crap, I don’t know what I was even thinking taking this gig. Everybody said, “Go where the action is!” and “Live on the Edge!”, but I get down here and I don’t even have my own dedicated chip! I swear, the next firmware upgrade, I’m outta here, going back to the Cloud!
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Michael Lever
Tested the analytics on a RTSP feed ? curious to see how it fares
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Undisclosed #4
pass or fail on the crawl?
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Jason Spielfogel
Am I right that the "hub" is just a gateway and some storage, but that all of the analytics and UI for that comes from their cloud service?
Anybody know whose analytics their using? (homegrown, AWS, Azure, Google?)
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Jason Spielfogel
Can you direct connect the App to your box, or does it have to portal through your cloud?
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Undisclosed Distributor #5
I notice that the detection tests, eg crawl, were done under normal white light lighting conditions. How well does the analytics perform when the cameras are in IR mode?
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Matt Martin
Very informative report. I was intrigued enough by this to purchase the Camect + lifetime subscription. I would love to beta test if you are looking for more people to join your program.
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Jim Van Vorst
This seems like a great product! Glad you did a review.
What is interesting to me is that it works with Wyze/Arlo/Nest "cloud" cameras. AFAIK, these cameras do not expose an RTSP stream that you can pull video from. It's a neat trick that Camect can intercept their cloud communications. I also wonder when these 800lb gorillas will be sending their armies of lawyers with "you can't do that" notices. Probably once they start losing their cloud subscription money.
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Chris Lovemore
Hi Arup, we have been testing 2 similar systems in our home market (not US) since about Feb 2019. Both rely on cloud analytics and this has been challenging so we fully agree with your approach of processing at the edge. Both also interface via Telegram. We typically install 2MP IR cameras back-to-back along a boundary fence to form a perimeter. Our goal is to achieve a very high degree of human movement detection of anyone breaching the perimeter. The cameras are installed at about 3m height and at 35m intervals. We find that at max distance on a dark night, detection accuracy on both systems is very inconsistent. Our goal is to try find the sweet spot of cost vs accuracy. We would be glad to provide you with access to our cameras to see how Camect performs relative to our existing test systems.
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Daniel S-T
Is the onboard storage drive replaceable/upgradeable? I noticed on the Camect website FAQ, they said you can use an external drive or NAS for extra storage, but was just curious about the onboard storage.
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Nicolas Heyman
Arup for v2 can I please request a field upgradable hard drive? A 10tb unit is about 300. Having a sled where a user can upgrade would very much future proof this appliance.
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Undisclosed #7
Was thinking about splurging on one today, looks like Corona Virus has caused some delays
Has anyone received one yet? Any more feedback or experience with these?
Camect Updates
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Arup Mukherjee
02/21/20 06:42pm
(In case none of our users are subscribers to this thread ... )
We have a few hundred active users now, and you can read some of our favorite unsolicited comments here, each with a link to the original public discussion from which it came.
If you have specific things you'd like to know about, I'm happy to answer, or you could ask in our user forum, referenced from the above page, and also linked off camect.com.
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