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I often hear this question and immediately want to ask, do you know what the difference is? And why do we need IP video cameras? What are the main differences between IP cameras and CCTV cameras?
Let’s figure it out in order.
What is CCTV is nothing more than Closed Circuit Television, or CCTV, a closed circuit television system. Some people mistakenly call CCTV analog video surveillance, but this is not true, since these are completely different concepts and should not be confused. As soon as we connect the CCTV camera to the DVR, it becomes an IP camera. A closed-loop television system can indeed be analog, or rather it was such at an early stage of its development, but modern technologies do not stand still, moreover, they are actively developing and at the moment it is no longer possible to put these concepts in one row.
What is IP video cameras. These are the same security cameras, only they already have a built-in function for outputting video signals to the Internet, because IP is nothing more than a protocol that unites individual subnets into the Internet and nothing else.
Some comrades attribute mythical functions to IP cameras, which, in my opinion, are nothing more than a PR move and nothing more, because it is necessary to somehow justify the high cost of IP cameras relative to CCTV cameras. For example, some manufacturers say that their IP camera is able to replace several CCTV cameras at once, due to the image quality, but at the same time they completely forget that each video camera has a certain viewing angle and if it is necessary to view a large area, then one camera is simply not physically will be able to do it.
Humanity really began its development in the field of security video surveillance with CCTV Villa for rent in Rwanda video cameras, since at that time the Internet had not yet had time to become widespread, and video images were recorded on video recorders through quadrators or multiplexers – these are analog-digital devices that combined the original images from several camcorders in one common, which were later replaced by more modern and easy-to-use Digital Video Recorder or DVR for short – digital video recorders. Then mankind refused to record video on cassettes similar to those used in VCRs, which were very popular in the 90s. They were replaced by hard disks (hard disk drives or HDDs), at first their capacity was not large and amounted to only 100 – 250 GB, but in a short period, manufacturers have developed hard drives with a capacity of more than 1-2 TB, the convenience of using HDD is undeniable and does not require additional clarifications.
Years passed and everything changed. The production was adjusted to the ever-increasing needs. Security video surveillance is widespread. If 10 years ago, the main consumer of these products were state. institutions, then at the moment security video surveillance has already entered our daily life. We see cameras literally at every step: in offices, shops, banks, schools, kindergartens on the streets and even at home. At the same time, the Internet has entered every home and we can no longer imagine life without it. Of course, the consumer wants to be able to view images from their camcorders on their computer via the Internet, and all modern DVRs give him this opportunity.
So what, then, is the difference between CCTV and IP camcorders?
CCTV cameras can be easily displayed on the Internet using any modern DVR recorder. At the same time, we can not be afraid that someone will hack the DVR protocol and will view the image from the DVR, since unlike IP video cameras, most of which have a single interaction protocol (Open Network Video Interface Forum or abbreviated ONVIF), the DVR has its own a protocol that is practically impossible to crack and this is an indisputable fact, as well as the fact that CCTV cameras can work both via the Internet and without it, unlike IP cameras, for which the Internet is necessary by definition, in the absence of which recording will be inevitable lost.
So why, then, are IP video cameras significantly more expensive than CCTV cameras? Everything is very simple, firstly, IP video cameras combine two devices (the video camera itself and the transmitting device using the IP protocol), secondly, IP video cameras have not yet received such widespread distribution as CCTV cameras and the manufacturer is not able to reduce prices depending on the volume of supplies … Considering these factors, the difference in the price of these cameras will be noticeable for a long time to come.
Some consumers explain their motivation for installing exactly IP cameras by the fact that they want to be in trend this year and 5 years later, but this is absurd, since technologies do not stand still and what was interesting yesterday is unlikely to be just as relevant tomorrow. For example, in IP video cameras, they have recently begun to actively introduce technologies that have been tested for years on CCTV video cameras and have proven themselves on the good side, for example, CCD CCD matrices. A couple of years ago, in order to reduce the cost of production, cheaper CMOS matrices were installed in IP cameras, invented in the 60s of the last century, which, in low light, as well as moving objects, display much worse than similar cameras with a CCD matrix. By the way, the inventors of the CCD matrix were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009. As for the increase in the number of pixels, this does not stand up to any criticism at all, because at the moment it is nothing more than a marketing ploy. After all, any specialist knows that the image quality does not depend on the number of pixels, but primarily on the size of the matrix itself, because the larger the matrix size, the more light falls on it, but an increase in the matrix inevitably entails an increase in its cost. An example is video cameras that are installed in telephones. Phone manufacturers claim more and more pixels, but at the same time everyone understands perfectly well that not a single even the most modern phone
does not compare in the quality of shooting with a camera, which will have similar characteristics, all due to the fact that the camera has a number of features that cannot be used in phones, and this is the lens and the size of the matrix and a number of other factors that will inevitably lead to an increase in the size of the phone.
Some of the opponents may say that with the help of IP video cameras it is possible to recognize license plates of cars and people’s faces, but this will also not be true, since it is not the camera that recognizes, its only task is to shoot video, the recognition algorithm is set by the software, which successfully copes with this either with the help of a computer or with the help of a server, which, in principle, is the same, with the only difference that it will not be possible to play games or view social networks on the video server, since its only purpose is to process the video signal … And what kind of video camera gives an image for analysis does not matter anymore, the main thing is that the image itself allows analysis.
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