Instek Digital, a provider of digital video surveillance systems, has completed a two month project to integrate its MatriVideo Network Video Recorder (NVR) with the new MOBOTIX Hemispheric Q24M 3 Megapixel IP camera. The Q24M camera can now be used along with other megaPixel camera brands that are supported by the Instek Digital Matrivideo platform.
Instek Digital, which has been working with MOBOTIX for several years, decided to focus its integration efforts on the new MOBOTIX 360 degree camera when it saw its unique capabilities and popularity. The company says that no extra housing is needed even when installed outside. It also has in-camera de-warping software and Micro SD card in-camera storage. The de-warping software eliminates the fish-eye view distortion that 360 degree cameras naturally produce and enhances panoramic views itโs claimed.
The Q24M camera is the firms say able to cover spaces that might require four or five fixed cameras to cover them. It is suitable itโs claimed to cover corridors in large buildings for example because one Q24, if placed on a corridor intersection could cover the full length of several corridors.
From an installerโs perspective the Instek-MOBOTIX camera-NVR integration means that they can select the MOBOTIX Q24 as part of an overall solution while choosing other cameras suited to other locations and security requirements as required. They will also be free to select other storage and video management systems as required.
Adjustment of the Q24 is via a browser, to view and record the best possible image. It is possible to view and record the all same image formats through the Instek Digital Matrivideo NVR as with the MOBOTIX browser software. Such has been the success of this integration that Instek Digital NVRs and MOBOTIX Q24s have already been installed in several UK sites.
Alastair Walker, business development manager of Veracity UK Limited, Instek Digitalโs UK partner, said: โThe Q24 will suit applications within certain solutions and should help reduce camera units needed on large installs. UK installers that want an open system which uses a mix of surveillance cameras, perhaps also integrated with other security applications like door entry, can use Instek MatriVideo NVRs to manage and display images knowing that they will now gain the full benefits provided by this leading 360 degree camera.โ
Instek Digital products are provided in the UK and Ireland by Instekโs technical development partner, Veracity UK Ltd.
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Instek Digital won the Integrated Security Solution Award at the 2009 Security Excellence Awards, with installer 2020 Vision Systems. The award was for the creation of a fully integrated CCTV, IP-Surveillance and access control system (ACS) at Bede Academy, Northumberland, one of the UKโs largest Academy schools serving 1,300 pupils at Blyth, 15 miles north east of Newcastle Upon Tyne.
