Warehouse Camera Selection Guide

•Published May 20, 2015 04:00 AM

Warehouses can contain many high-value items yet often do not have people inside them watching for issues.

Expanding on our Camera Selection Guide, we tested a warehouse with different camera types, shown below:

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Comments (4)

Trisha (Chris' wife) Dearing

•May 20, 2015

IPVMU Certified

Cool test, Ethan!

One question about the left column FOV shown in the ~45' HFOV panel. It appears to be roughly 4:3 aspect ratio, like the SD image.

Since 1080p/720p are 16:9 aspects, is it fair to say that those FOVs would have had less of a VFOV, and looked something like:

If that is the case wouldn't it be possible for the squarer aspect ratio cameras to be able to get face shots, at a closer distance, (assuming Derek continued on his walk), that the 16:9 cameras could not, which would improve their PPF's?

Of course if the 1080p cameras are just crops of a squarer sensor then one could use that. On the other hand some 1080p and 4K cameras are not crops, and therefore would have less VFOV.

Does that make any sense?

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Undisclosed Integrator #1

•May 21, 2015

Did we test "corridor mode". Seems like it would apply on 1080 cameras down long aisles.

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Michael Goodwin

•May 22, 2015

we bought 1 x 360, will never again. just put a stack of $100 90 degree Hik's all over the place...

Better coverage (more points of view, not all of the view from a single location)

far better PPI/PPF whatever

better at covering considerably different light levels (like very warehouse ever, what happens when the door opens)