New from Pelco by Schneider Electric are the Spectra Professional 4K cameras in their portfolio of high resolution (4K) fixed and Pan Tilt Zoom cameras. From license plates to faces, the rugged outdoor camera offer resolutions and compression standards to clarify details of interest in crowded or poorly lit areas such as city surveillance, airports, metro stations, waterways, roadways, bridges, and other outdoor commercial applications, the makers say.
Rob Yockey, Pelco’s Senior Product Line Manager said: “Traditionally, when operators zoom-in on 1080P video the details can become indistinct because there are only so many pixels. With 4K resolution, one camera can cover a large area and offer the ability to zoom in with greater detail. This technology greatly improves security operations in both live monitoring as well as in forensic analysis. Pelco continues to expand its 4K resolution camera offering with the Spectra Professional 4K line of PTZ cameras by providing detailed images more clearly than ever before at greater distances. Spectra Professional 4K’s innovative features capture outstanding detail in low-light conditions and is ideal for tracking people and vehicles across wide spaces.”
The company says that its 4K camera enhances the ability to recognise and identify objects at greater distances. It also provides infra-red illumination up to 150m, streams video in H.265, H.264 or MJPEG formats, and can see 15 degrees above the horizon.
The new camera features up to 4K resolution at 30 images per second (ips), to cover a large area with clarity of detail to record information such as car number plates or faces of people. Mainly for outdoor applications with poor lighting, the camera provides infra-red like Esprit Enhanced IR models. In response to some places passing laws to restrict white light pollution near apartments or in empty parking lots, the camera provides IR illumination that enables operation in the absence of visible light.
The camera offers operators H.265 video encoding and Pelco Smart Compression that reduce the storage required while preserving image quality. With features such as patterns and frame scan, Spectra Professional 4K enables close manual tracking of people or vehicles as well as ability to cover spaces in an automated fashion. The product can tilt to 15 degrees above the horizon, for extended viewing area above most dome cameras that can only see to the horizon. And EIS (Electronic Image Stabilisation) reduces blurring associated with camera motion at sites subject to vibration.
