Samsung Techwin has introduced a 2MP Full HD remote head camera. The SNB-6010, pictured, has been designed for ATM and retail use, but the makers say provides a solution for any project where a small sized camera is required, including covert surveillance. Its processing unit, which houses the camera’s DSP chipset and Ethernet connection, is supplied as a separate unit that can be installed in a secure location to prevent would be attackers from gaining access to video stored on an SD card.
The product can capture 1920 x 1080 images in real time when the lighting level is as low as 0.05 Lux. An enhanced Wide Dynamic Range feature, with performance greater than 120dB, enables the SNB-6010 to produce images in scenes that simultaneously contain very bright and very dark areas, for example, when acamera may be looking from a ‘hidden location. The camera’s privacy zone masking feature can blank out sensitive areas, such as a pin code keypad, from being recorded.
The SNB-6010 provides the option of using Intelligent Video Analytics to detect activity by various means such as face detection, which can be of use for covert surveillance, and ‘tampering’ which creates an alert if paint is sprayed on the camera’s lens or if there is unauthorised movement of the camera away from its usual field of view. Or, motion detection built into the SNB-6010, can reduce the false alarm rate by learning what the normal motion of the scene is.
A multi-crop feature enables users to highlight and crop areas of interest for the camera to only send the images within that area at a preferred resolution and frame rate.
