Hey there, it's Tyler from Nelly's Security and today we're going to take a look at
Uiview's outdoor mini ptz security cameras.
These 2MP PTZ cameras come in three models:
We have the standard PTZ, an active deterrence PTZ,
and a lighter Pan & Tilt model. All three cameras are compact,
attractive, and powerful. They each have auto-tracking functionality as well as
human body detection, so you never have to worry about missing
out on important movement in your surveillance feeds.
They all have pretty crisp and clear two-way audio,
so you can communicate with anyone around your cameras from anywhere in the
world. These cameras are also built with Light
Hunter technology, which means they have a pretty good low-light sensor for
seeing in color, even in the dark. So let's go ahead and
take a closer look at each one of these cameras.
Alright, first up we have our standard Uniview
outdoor mini PTZ. This thing has got all the basic
functions that you would expect to see on a PTZ.
It's got this 345° pan.
It's got this 90° tilt, and it also has a 4X zoom with a
2.8 to 12mm optical zoom lens.
This can store up to 256 PTZ patrols. Like i mentioned it's got FullHD
1080P resolution at 2MP. It shoots at 30 frames
per second. So there is a MicroSD card slot if we
take the cover off the back of the camera using the included hex
wrench. You can see inside underneath the dome
here we do have this MicroSDcard slot which can hold up to 128GB of
onboard storage. Here at the very bottom of the lens is
our microphone for two-way audio. At the top above the lens is our speaker.
The IR range on this camera is 164'. Looking at the cable
connections here we have our RJ45 connector for Ethernet cable, for
connecting this to your network. We have a 12V DC connector, and we
also have a-- this is the reset button here in the
pigtail. That's pretty much it for this camera.
Let's go ahead and move on to our Pan & Tilt model. This one is exactly
like the standard PTZ, but the difference is there is no Z. It's
just PT. So it has a 4mm fixed lens
here instead of that 2.8 to 12 mm zoom lens
of the standard PTZ. One other slight difference, it does have a 98' IR
distance instead of 164', but that 98' IR range is
not bad at all. It's still got a pretty good distance.
Since this camera does have less movable parts because of that 4mm
fixed lens, this is a more affordable camera.
So if you're looking for all of these features that we've talked about, you
know, auto-tracking, human body detection,
two-way audio, Light Hunter technology, just a compact
outdoor PTZ body, but if the zoom function isn't as
important to you, then you can save a little bit of money
going with this Pan &Tilt model. And finally we come to our Active
Deterrence model. And this housing is the same as the
other two PTZs, the obvious difference being the strobe
light on top, these lights on the bottom of the lens.
And other than that everything else is exactly the same. It has the microphone
in the same place, it has the speaker on top.
345° pan, 90° tilt, 4X zoom with the same 2.8 to 12mm
zoom lens as the standard PTZ. It's
got the full 165' IR range, Light Hunter technology, all those PTZ
patrols, and everything else. This is the most feature-packed version
of the three cameras simply because of those active
deterrence features. Alright, that's enough talking. So let's go ahead and
switch gears and watch these cameras in action.
Alright, our active deterrence PTZ is now installed here on
the south end of our building. It's got a nice wide view
of our west parking lot as well as our south parking lot. This is going to be a
great location and it offers a great view of our property. And as you
can see behind me, I do have this camera connected to a Uniview NVR,
and I'm also using our Uniview NVR keyboard
and a ptz joystick just to make things a lot smoother. This is how we're
going to be navigating around with this camera. We can zoom out
and we can just make a lot of smooth and fluid motions all at once
so let's go ahead and jump into this interface. Now obviously this
is our live view and again, like I said we can see pretty much
everything that we need to see. Our entire west parking lot,
over here we have the south side of our building.
We've got really good coverage here. Alright let's check out what we have
available to us here from the live view. You can see that we do have presets
and patrols here so we can navigate here to the front of our
parking lot. I want to add a preset here.
And we can call this Preset No. 1. We can call it "Front Parking Lot."
And then maybe we want to zoom in there on the
entrance to our parking lot and we can pop a preset there.
"North entrance." And now we can call any of these presets
just with a simple click. So because all three of these cameras do have
two-way audio, from the live screen we can also enable that audio. So we can
turn audio on and we can hear exactly what's going on
out there. And these also have built-in microphones,
so let's see if we can get a conversation going with somebody out
there.
"Hey AJ, what's goin on?"
"Hey, what's up Tyler?"
"Hey, what do you think of this new camera?"
"It's pretty sweet!"
"Alright, awesome."
And you can see it's tracking him as he goes back
towards the office. And once he's gone it comes back to where it was before. Now
so far everything I've shown you is available on all three of these camera
models: the standard PTZ, the Pan &Tilt model,
and the active deterrence model, obviously because that's the camera that
we're using here. Let's go ahead and jump into the menu
and check out some additional features of these cameras.
Under the PTZ menu, you can see that we can set up some timeout settings.
We can set a home position so that after, let's say,
60 seconds of being idle, we jump to Preset 1, something like that.
We can set up limits if we don't want to use the full pan and tilt
field available to us, if we want to limit that at all, we can.
We can set up a remote control. This remote control, however, only goes through
the NVR. It cannot connect directly to the PTZ, so
keep that in mind. But let's go ahead and jump into these
intelligent events. Now the intelligent events are going to
be the same on all three models. They both have auto-tracking and they
both have human body detection. Obviously the way that the active
deterrence camera handles these will be a little bit different just because of
those active deterrence features, but the basic principles are the same. So
first let's check out auto tracking. So i'm going to jump into the settings
for this, click on "Enable auto-tracking," and boom. Auto-tracking is now enabled.
We can have it just continuously track however long an
object is moving or we can take that off
and set the max tracking time. I'm just going to have it continuously
track. And there is an algorithm with these cameras; it's not just going
to track anything that moves. Obviously, as you can see here,
that would be bad for us because we are next to this pretty busy street.
If this camera were to track everything it would just be
tracking cars back and forth all day long, so it can
actually tell the difference between human movement
and other types of movement. So when somebody walks past this camera
the camera will start to track them. In fact, let me run out there real fast and
try this out.
So yeah this camera did a pretty good job of following me around out there and
auto-tracking my movement. It does not use the zoom function, just
the pan and tilt. So because of that this auto-tracking
can be used again on all three models: the classic PTZ, the pan & tilt model,
or this active deterrence camera. Now as you can tell in the setup menu
here, there's no trigger actions. You can set a
plan, so if you only want the auto tracking to
happen during certain times of the day, you can set that up here.
But there are no triggers to this, so if your camera is auto-tracking movement,
that's all it's doing. It's not necessarily uploading a recording to
the MicroSD card. It's not setting off the active deterrence
features. So to do that, we have to come back into the
intelligent menu and we have to actually jump into human body detection.
To enable human body detection, you can set up areas. So I have the area
selected as the whole screen right now, but you can actually just select part of
the screen if you want to. And what that's going to do is only
look for human movement within that area and we can set up some
trigger actions such as, we can upload this to FTP.
We can start recording on edge storage. We can go
to a particular preset. All of these trigger actions are the same across the
board, no matter what PTZ model you have.
And obviously the difference with this active deterrence is it does have two
extra trigger actions. We can sound an alarm
and we can flash the light. Now againw there are
ten different audio sounds we can choose from and we can make it repeat
anytime between one and fifty times and we can make this light blink anywhere
between one and six hundred times, so. For now I just have
this set to audio nine which is welcome.
"Welcome."
And let's only have a repeat one time, simply because there are people that
walk up and down the street and they use this parking lot. Idon't want this
camera to scare anybody. So we'll just be nice to them for now.
Once again you can set a plan. So for instance, if you only want your active
deterrence features to go off at night you can set this up so that,
you know, it's not going to be flashing that light or sounding those
alarms during the day. So this is a pretty incredible camera and I know you
guys are anxious to see some sample footage, you
guys want to check out some of these active deterrence features, so without
further ado let's go ahead and check that out now.
"You are in the danger zone! Do not approach."
"Please be aware. You are in a monitored area."
"Important place; please leave."
"No parking; please leave."
"Danger! Do not climb."
"Please be aware, you in the monitored area."
Well, that about wraps it up for this video. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope
this was helpful for you as you try to determine if these mini PTZs
are right for you. Let us know if you have any questions at all about these
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