Pelco Optera Multi-Imager Cameras Overview
Author: John Honovich, Published on Apr 07, 2015
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Comments (11)
John Honovich
Someone asked offline about the relationship of Pelco's panoramic to Arecont. Pelco's response: "Pelco’s Dragonfly cameras have nothing whatsoever to do with ArecontVision."
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James Gowan
Pelco cameras are supported in Genetec. Any reason to think these would not?
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Ethan Ace
Update: Pelco has released the 180 versions of these Cameras and they are now officially called "Optera." 270 and 360 models are scheduled for Fall.
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Jesse Guenter
Has anyone used the 180's yet? I am looking into a project that we could install a few... but I hate being the guinea pig ;-)
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Jesse Guenter
Great news John! once again IPVM team rocks!
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Denzil Lewis
John,
Like Jesse we're in the planning stages of a few small projects and would definitely like to use this Pelco offering. Any status on the test results?
P.S. just for "an informed decision" sake; have you guys ever tested the WDR rated Arecont 12MP 180 cameras?
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Denzil Lewis
Understood. Thanks guys, will loook out for those test results
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