Trend: Day/Night Profiles for IP Cameras

Author: Ethan Ace, Published on Jan 09, 2014

A rising trend in IP cameras is adding different profiles for day and night video. While most manufacturers lock you into only one set of parameters, a now provide settings to be optimized for the time of day. In this note, we review these profiles and give examples of how they can affect performance.

Examples

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Comments (3)

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Marc Pichaud

01/09/14 09:28pm

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Ben Wilks

01/10/14 04:35am

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Ethan Ace

IPVM | 12/05/14 04:49pm

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