[Cialug] Security Camer(s)

[Richard Harms]

We have two ZoneMinder servers, monitoring a total of 18 cameras. Its 
worked out very well for us.

Back in May, someone else was asking about Axis cameras, and I posted 
this follow-up to it:

"In low light, we've had much better luck with Panasonic cameras than 
the Axis ones. We're moving into a new building next month, and as part 
of that, we're moving from using an analog security camera system to 
one centered around ZoneMinder running on Linux. We purchased an Axis 
205, and a Panasonic BL-C10A. The Panasonic was cheaper, and gives you 
vertical and horizontal panning. In low light, the Axis camera had so 
much noise in the images that there was no chance you would be able to 
make out the details of who was in front of the camera. It did high a 
higher frame rate than the Panasonic, but that does little good if 
every frame is covered with noise.

I really wanted to like the Axis camera too - runs Linux, seemed to 
have a great reputation, but we ended up purchasing a large group of 
the Panasonic cameras instead (which I believe use BSD of some sort).

Both are very easy to use, Panasonic has a higher built-in feature set 
though, and supports a variety of notification methods and capture 
options. That wasn't really critical for us however, since ZoneMinder 
gives us pretty much everything we need for motion detection and 
capture We're using them indoors only. ZoneMinder also has direct 
support for the panning in the camera, which is a nice touch."

Hope this helps.

-rh

On Sep 23, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Kevin C. Smith wrote:

> Anyone recommendations for a security camer(s) system?
> I've looked at Axis cameras and the ZoneMinder project.
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