Hey guys! It's Tyler from Nelly's Security, and today we have a pretty big video for you.
That's because we have not just one, but three brand new products to introduce you to today.
First, we have a full-blown 4K PTZ. Second, we have a security camera with Deep Learning
artificial intelligence so advanced that it can determine the make of a vehicle or the
color of a person's hair. Finally, we have a LightHunter security camera with a whopping
820' IR range.
So we have a 4K PTZ, advanced deep learning artificial intelligence, and a super-range
IR camera. Are you getting it?
These are not three separate devices. This is one device and we are calling it the one
PTZ to rule them all.
Alright, I'm gonna tell you right up front that this camera isn't for everyone. It's
not the kind of PTZ that you're gonna want to hang on your front porch or put up at your
small business. This PTZ is primarily geared toward large commercial installations, maybe
some industrial or farm applications. This camera is big, it's powerful, and it's expensive.
But even if you're not planning on purchasing this camera for yourself, you should still
watch this video because, well, it's a really cool camera.
Alright, we're gonna do a quick rundown of the specs here, and then we're gonna jump
right in, because there's a lot to look at with this camera. So we've got a 4K PTZ that
shoots video at 30 frames per second. This is really unique, because one, we're not used
to seeing a 4K resolution in a PTZ. And two, we're not used to seeing 30 frames per second
in a 4K security camera. Usually with security cameras, you have to choose between a high
resolution and a high frame rate. With this PTZ, you can have both.
Next, this camera has LightHunter Illumination technology, which means it's going to do exceptionally
well in lower light scenarios. You're going to get crisper footage, it's not going to
be as grainy or as noisy. Here our office is right off of a busy street. There are lots
of streetlights. And this LightHunter illumination is enough to keep this camera in full color
24/7, just because of all the ambient light. However, if you're installing this in a place
that doesn't have much ambient light, that's okay because of the 820' IR range on this
camera. This camera can see incredibly far distances at night and this IR range really
blows most other night vision cameras right out of the water. This camera has a 360' endless
pan, so you can just sit there and spin around to your heart's content. It's got a 90° to
a -20° tilt, so it's got a really nice field of view. You're not just limited to the top
of the PTZ. You can tilt it up ever so slightly. And the zoom. Ah man, this thing has got an
incredible zoom.
Zoomed all the way out, this is a 5.7mm lens that zooms in all the way to 216.6mm. That
is a 38 times zoom factor. Are you salivating yet? Just wait, there's more. If you are used
to long-range PTZs like this, you might expect there to be quite a bit of wobble when the
lens is zoomed all the way in. The longer the camera's lens gets, the more wobble you're
gonna have with the wind and other vibrations. That's not the case with this camera, because
it has a built-in gyroscope that actually stabilizes the footage as the camera moves
around. So when the wind blows the lens to the left, the PTZ's motor is gonna kick in
and move the camera back to the right, and this happens in such a way that you don't
even really notice it. Unless it's super windy outside, which you will see later on in this
video. The gyroscope doesn't completely keep it from wobbling, but I think you're going
to be really impressed by the amount of stabilization that this camera has.
We've got a ton of intelligent events with this camera, and again it is all embedded
with Uniview's deep learning technology. Now if you don't know what Uniview's deep learning
technology is, we have a whole other video on our channel, and I will go ahead and leave
that link in the description down below, so check that out if you are curious about how
deep learning works and why it's important for video surveillance, but this 4K PTZ takes
Uniview's deep learning algorithms and brings it to a whole new level. Not only are you
able to target humans, vehicles, and non-motorized vehicles, but you can also gather certain
attributes from these targets, such as a vehicle color, a vehicle make, the color of a person's
shirt and pants and hair. Whether or not a person has a backpack.
As you might expect, this camera's not perfect at gathering these attributes. But since it
is deep learning, there is always the possibility that this camera is going to continue getting
smarter and smarter as Uniview continues to update their firmware.
Oh man, there is so much to talk about here, but I'm going to go ahead and stop talking.
Let's jump right into this demo so you can see how cool this camera is for yourself.
Alright, we've got this camera installed up here. When you're installing this camera,
just exercise caution. This is about 20lbs. It's heavy. Use the stuff that they include,
the caribiner, the safety loop. Make sure you have some assistance. And one more thing
I want to point out is that this thing is huge and it's powerful, so obviously it's
not going to work with the 30W of power produced by a standard PoE or PoE+ switch. So if you
plan to use PoE to power this thing, you are going to need a PoE++ switch, which is the
"BT" instead of the "AT" or "AF." We have one of those at Nelly's Security. It is a
4 port. I will leave the link to that in the description below. But again, this does come
with the power supply. So if you don't have a PoE++ switch handy, you can just power this
thing with the 24V power supply that it comes with.
Alright, here we are logged into our web interface. We have this beautiful 4K image, very sharp
and detailed. We have these very simple PTZ controls. Just by clicking on the edge of
the screen here we can move the PTZ around, we can take advantage of this awesome 360°
pan. It just goes around and around and around, it never stops. It has this 90° tilt, so
we are at the top of our tilt. And we can go all the way down.
So this really does have a nice and wide field of view. We can pretty much point the camera
anywhere that we want to, we have very little limitations. But now I want to check out this
38 times zoom.
Let's see, what's a good spot to zoom in on?
Let's go ahead and zoom right down this alley. To do that, I'm going to click this zoom button
over here, and boom.
We are zooming way in. We have not reached the end of our zoom yet. I just want to
adjust a little bit. Let's keep zooming.
And there we go, we are at this 38x zoom. And it is actually incredibly windy outside,
I don't know if you can tell. But the fact that this PTZ is jiggling just a little bit
is actually pretty insane. If it wasn't windy outside, we would see very few jiggles. That's
because of the built-in gyroscope in this PTZ. If that gyroscope wasn't in here, you
would be seeing a lot more wiggles and jiggles at this level of zoom.
Alright, so let's check out what else this camera can do. We have, you know, the typical
PTZ presets over here. So if I want to keep an eye on our parking lot entrance, I can
zoom in a little bit, get that pan and tilt just right, and click "Add Preset." And we
can call this preset number one. You can see we can have up to 1,024 presets. Crazy. Preset
name, we'll call this our home location.
Alright, and there we go. And now as I am panning and tilting around, as I am zooming
in and out. Let's say we want to read this taco bell sign, see what their special is
for today. Ooh, a $5 box. That sounds good. And then I can click this little arrow. And
boom. Takes me right back home. You can see it focuses very fast as I'm zooming in and
zooming out. I cannot get this camera to defocus very easily. Let's zoom in back over here
at this Taco Bell. What do we have goin on? Let's see if we can see anybody getting some
tacos. And... Oh, check this out! Nice, we've got a turret camera over there. Is that...
Is that a Uniview camera? It kinda looks like a Uniview security camera. Let's digitally
zoom. See if we can check that out. Man, that might be Uniview you guys. I'm gonna have
to go check that out later.
Alright, so we are zoomed all the way in here at this Taco Bell. The wind is moving the
camera around a little bit, but again that is to be expected. It's actually moving around
quite a bit less than is to be expected. But then I can just click this arrow and, boom,
it snaps me right back to my home location, zooms the camera out, works exactly like PTZ
presets should work, so I'm not going to spend much more time here. There's a lot to play
around with with this camera, so I want to jump right into the menu.
Now what we have in the menu is, it's your standard Uniview menu setup. We have the PTZ
controls here if we want to set a home position, we can, which right now it's turned on so
it's gonna jump right back to that home location. I'm gonna turn that off. I don't really want
it snapping around on me while I'm messing with it.
We can play with the image. This is a starlight camera, but this does have an incredible 800'
IR distance, and you can control all of that here in the smart illumination. The control
mode right now is on "Road" but you can change that to whatever.
We have all of these settings here to dial in the image exactly how we want it to be,
but now I want to jump into this Intelligent Event menu, because we have quite a bit going
on here, as you can see. We have your standard Cross Line, Region Entrance, Region Exit,
Intrusion. We also have master/slave linkage. A ton of things to play around with here,
but the one thing I want to point out is, again and I mentioned it at the beginning
of this video, this camera does have some incredible Deep Learning capabilities. And
I'm going to show you that with a simple line crossing here. So if I open up our line crossing,
let's navigate this camera over here to the front of our parking lot. And I'm going to
set up a line crossing detection for right over here on our parking lot so that anytime
someone drives in here, we will be able to capture them. And you can see that we have
these snapshot objects over here for motor vehicle, non-motor vehicle, and pedestrian.
Again, we have a whole other video about Uniview's Deep Learning. Go ahead and check that out.
The link is in the description below. But this camera actually does more sophisticated
deep learning than some of our other cameras, and I'm going to show you that right now.
So you can see right away as soon as I have this line drawn we have all these little boxes
that are orange popping up all over the place. The color orange means the camera is detecting
a motor vehicle, and we can see that the orange colors, it's surrounding all these different
cars. So as cars drive past on the road back here, here let's save this and go to the live
view. So as cars drive past on the road here, we can see these orange boxes following them,
and that tree over there is turning green, which means it think that that is a human being.
And right now if any of these cars were to turn into our driveway, the orange box would
turn red, which means that the car triggered that line crossing detection. In fact, let's
go back. Let's set this line up vertically so that cars actually pass it. And boom, as
the cars start passing that blue line, the orange box around the car turns red. That
means that the motor vehicle has successfully triggered this line crossing detection.
Alright, let's jump back into our line crossing settings and look at some of the triggers
that we have available. We can do attribute collection, which I'm going to select that.
What that means is it's going to collect attributes of the different cars and people that pass
that line. We can upload an image, we can start a recording, we can sound an alarm if
we have an alarm connected to that, which we do not. And we can enable trigger tracking.
So now what I'm going to do is set up some line crossing and intrusion events and we're
going to test out some of this auto tracking. Let me get this set up. I'm going to delete
this home and over here where there is less activity in this area of our parking lot I'm
going to set up some line crossing and intrusion detections and then test them out. So here
I am walking across this line, and you'll notice a couple of things. First, you'll see
that once the autotracking kicks in, it kinda zooms in and out for a second while the camera
tries to decide on a good field of view for this scene. Some people like that, some people
don't. The good thing is you can change that in the autotracking settings. You'll also
see that the camera is tracking me here for as long as it can see me. That's something
else that you can change in the autotracking settings. You can set up a timeout parameter,
which will tell the camera to stop tracking subjects after a certain amount of time.
I included this next clip in here just so you can see that the wind is blowing these
leaves around and it's definitely getting inside that intrusion detection box. With
standard pixel-based video analytics, this might have caused the camera's alarm to trigger,
since there is movement happening inside that box. But here, thanks to our deep learning,
this camera is completely ignoring this non-human movement.
Another cool thing I want to show you here is that if I have a smart event parameter
drawn here, the camera is going to lock the position of that event. What I mean is that
as I move this PTZ around, the camera is going to remember where the event was drawn and
it's going to keep it there. Now let's test out this line crossing while the camera is
zoomed all the way in over here at this Taco Bell parking lot. And there we go, I've triggered
this event. Then, yeah. As soon as I'm behind those bushes, it's gone. But this just goes
to show how much flexibility you have when it comes to setting up these events.
Now let's head back into the Smart Event menu here, we'll go to triggers. And let's turn
on this "Collect Attributes" feature. This is a really cool feature that's going to tell
the camera not just to recognize people and vehicles, but also to collect certain information
about them. When we pop open this snapshot view, we'll see that the camera is taking
snapshots of these targets as they cross that line. And if we click on one, we can see more
detailed information, such as the color and make of that vehicle. Again, this may not
always be 100% accurate, but it will continue to improve over time.
Now let's see what information this camera can collect from me as I walk across that
line. And there I am, popping up just above the vehicles so you can see the human and
vehicle targets are separated for convenience. And there we go, it thinks I'm wearing all
black. My shirt is black. My pants are actually dark blue, but hey. I'll take it. And it's
correct, I am not wearing a backpack in this scene. So let me grab my backpack and head
back out there. And now you can see this time it did recognize the fact that I was wearing
a bag.
As of now, in March 2021, there's not a whole lot you can do with this information. But
Uniview's NVRs will be able to interact more with this deep learning sometime in the near
future, so keep your eyes open for a follow-up video when that new NVR firmware drops. And
that about does it for this video. Thank you guys for checking it out, and if you're curious
about this 4K PTZ, go ahead and click the links in the description below. Let us know
if you have any questions about this product or if you're wondering if this camera might
be for you. We are always happy to help you out. Thanks again for watching this video,
and we will see you in the next one.