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Thanks both of you! That sounds really promising indeed! But what about so called "phone jammers"? Will they not be a potential threat in that they might be able to interfer with the signal thus rendering the videocamera useless? Or is there a way to get any "alarm" if the internet connection to the VideoIQ camera is broken? Or with some other device detect that a jammer is in use, and via some other medium/radio frequency not used by the jammer be notified of this?

Hi, I wonder if anyone of you have designed and implemented, or know of a system with one or more VideoIQ cameras that are being monitored from a remote location over 3G or 4G? That is by using a 3G or 4G modem to transmit the video streem to an off-site location? I am thinking of setting up a VideoIQ camera at my cabin in the archipelago where there is NO wired broad band connection available. The idea would be to place the camera at my cabin and then somehow attach it to a 4G modem/router that cold transfer the videostreams to my house. Would that be possible?

I am about to enhance our security system by adding a VideoIQ camera that will be surveilling the whole backyard as well as the back facade of our house. I now wonder if it would be possible, in any way, to escalate what will happen if a human is entering a ROI or crossing a LOI? For example; if the system is armed AND an intruder walks in to our garden, VideoIQ triggers a flashing light. If the person dwells there for more than X seconds, a pre-recorded voice message is triggered, and IF the intruder enters a second ROI, a siren goes off. I have understood that there is only one serial alarm output on the VideoIQ back plate, so how can you accomplish the above?

Thanks a lot NotoriousBRK! You seem to know a lot about VideoIQ-cameras! I guess that, as we are only going to use one pair to signal TO the camera from our central alarm unit when our home security system is armed, and then another pair of cables FROM the camera to tell our central alarm control system if someone has triggered an alarm event, that will leave us with TWO pairs that could be used for powering the camera? Is that correctly understood? Could you explain why 24VAC is better than 12VDC? As the main power source will be a PoE-switch in our house, we will, for back-up, attach the PoE-switch to an UPS unit in case of power failure. As this unit has several 230VAC outlets, could one of them be used in order to back-up the 24VAC tranformer as well so that we will have double redundancy? Thanks!

Hi, We are going to put up a VideoIQ iCVR HD camera outdoor in our garden, and if I have read the manual correctly, the preferred method for powering the camera is PoE, which means that a gel-filled, UTP Cat. 5e cable for outdoor use, will be enough(?) to run the camera. If I want to connect a redundant power source, (e.g. the PoE switch should fail), the camera will automatically switch to this power source in case the first power source goes down. For this I have the choice of either connecting the camera to 12VDC or 24VAC. As the camera "only" consumes a maximum of 10W, I guess I should be able to connect A SECOND twisted pair cable and use one of the pairs to feed the camera with 12VDC as back-up power. If so, I wonder if I then can use the OTHER pairs in this second cable to connect to the camera's alarm I/O-ports??? In the "VideoIQ TechNotes iCVR Alarm I/O" I read that they suggest that you can should use a wire between 18-22ga and connect this to the included 12 postion green connector block. If the above is correct, I assume that the use of two gel-filled UTP twisted pair cables will give me all the wires I need in this case??? But is this "standard" procedure? Or is the alarm signals and secondary power separated in two different wires? And if so what kind of wires do you suggest?

The VideoIQ camera looks really very promising indeed! Is there any way that I can do to make the system even more accurate when it comes to differentiate deer from human once I have installed the camera? Like send in samples of footage with deer and human present in our set-up to VideoIQ?

Hi, I have been told that the color temperature is important when choosing light sources to light up areas that your cctv camera monitors. So in order to buy some outdoor light that will light up my façade of our house, I wonder if there is any “ideal” color temperature for a VidoeIQ camera that I should look for when choosing lamps? Some say that around 3 800 Kelvin is good for digital HD cameras. These lights will be switched on using motion detectors during the night if someone enters our garden. And hopefully this alone will deter some intruders. But will the sudden change in lighting also affect the VideoIQ camera in a negative way? Like that with this sudden change in light, it will take some time to re-adjust to this new level? Would it perhaps be better NOT to add extra lights to light up the house façade, and instead add some ir-lights directed from the camera towards our house?

Thanks a lot NotoriousBRK! I also learned today that the company behind VideoIQ has an app in the pipeline for their HD camera.

Hi, I have understood that you can connect to your VideoIQ-camera with your iPhone/iPad and watch the live feed. But what about recorded events? Is it possible, for example, to have the VideoIQ-system to dump any triggered recording to an NAS and with a connected PC, somehow, get this footage browsable from my iPhone or iPad via a third party app??

So does this mean that the VideoIQ unit is much better when it comes to filter out animal (regardless of size) than a more traditional solution with a HD CCTV camera and some kind of Intelligent Video Management Software???

Thanks! That's amazing!! And you mean that it will even work with deer which are a bit larger than those dogs??

Thanks a lot! That helps! I think I can live with one or two false alarms after a period of "trimming" the system. As the cameras we are concidering are of fixed dome type, I guess it would be not too difficult to find threshold levels for "our" deer so that they do not trigger any events. We will only have three cameras around the house and we are looking for something at the same level as a Sony SNC-DH180, Panasonic WV-NW502, etc. Given these types of cameras and their resolution, which software would you suggest that "best" will help us sort out deer from humans Thanks!

Hi, We are in the process of setting up a CCTV system combined with perimeter detection to turn on voice messages and light. However, as we occasionally have a couple of deer passing by in our garden, we are trying to figure out how we should set up the system so that it will differentiate between human activity and a deer passing by, which should NOT trigger any voice messages or turn on the lights or wake us, or the neighbours!!! But when I stumbled over a footage on YouTube showing that the VideoIQ system will not be triggered if a dog comes by, I thought that maybe this means that VideoIQ could handle the detection of human vs deer, meaning I will not have to invest at all in any more advanced motion detectors or such arrangements to sort deer from human... But as promises in the past about the capability of motion analysis within the video sector have been over optimistic, I wanted first to listen to you guys in this forum. Maybe someone here has already invested in a VideoIQ system and have the same conditions as we have with deer, cats and dogs occasionally passing by??? Any real world experience on this matte would be most appreciated! Regards, Dag