Thanks for coming to MxInstaller Meetup 2

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Last night saw a full house at the second MxInstaller Meetup in Sydney.  The last of the guests left the venue at around 11pm. A big thanks to everyone who came.   Attendees all received the latest copy of MxInstaller magazine – (if you couldn’t make it, email us if you would like to receive a copy).

As a side note, if you happen to live in the USA, we will also be hosting MxInstaller Meetups in San Francisco • 12 July & Jersey City • 19 July.
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MOBOTIX D14 Fixed Lens, Panorama 180˚ and Shock Detector

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Building on the host of improvements introduced with the MOBOTIX D14 — 2x processing power, 6.2 megapixel resolution video, expanded interface options (miniUSB, microSD, MxBus), better audio (watch our video D14 review) — the latest additions to the D14 range help cement its position at the head of the IP camera pack.
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Choosing The Right NAS For Your MOBOTIX System

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Did you hear the one about the shop owner who took it upon himself to find a storage device for his MOBOTIX system?  He finally decided upon a D-Link DNS-323, (purchased on ebay for $290), to record megapixel video from 7 MOBOTIX cameras.  Not surprisingly the NAS instantly became the source of continuous recording errors.  The only way to fix the problem was to pull it out and replace it with a more suitable NAS.

The lesson here is that the decision was based purely on price, without consultation. Which ended up costing the end user more in the short term.

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Is VMS Licensing Too Expensive?

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Some may be unfamiliar with technologies unique to MOBOTIX such as “hemispheric video”, “decentralized recording” and “MxPEG”, but everyone understands what “no software licensing” means.

In fact, this is attracting a stream of newcomers to the MOBOTIX community, who are tired of constantly shelling out thousands of dollars to VMS vendors for the right to record and playback video.

In an interview with MxInstaller (see interview below), Craig Shipway of Vast Security expressed his distaste at being charged to connect cameras to a system that has already been paid for, “…you own the computer, you’ve bought the software, you’ve bought the cameras, then you’ve got to pay a fee to use the stuff you already own.”

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A Global IP Camera Standard. Are We There Yet?

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IP camera manufacturers often state categorically that high quality can only be achieved through the adoption of standards.  But is it true? Are standards a guarantee of “best quality”?

Let’s take a look at an example cited in a camera manufacturer’s white paper entitled, HDTV and video surveillance.  On page 3 it states, “…a network camera that complies with any of the given HDTV standards is guaranteed to provide a certain resolution, frame rate and color fidelity, thereby ensuring video quality at all times.”

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5 World-First IP Camera Innovations Released In The Last Decade

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When asked how much market research went into the iPad, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs replied: “None. It’s not the consumer’s job to know what they want.”

Those who worked with Jobs concur that Apple’s unrivalled innovation was more to do with intuitive vision than extensive fact gathering.

Innovative product often starts with a visionary – a leader with the ability to know what the customers want even before they do.  Like magic, it’s the result of unseen forces – imagination and genius, rather than well schooled logic.

But vision is only the first part of the equation.  Innovation requires well planned execution that forms brilliant ideas into useful devices.

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IP Cameras That Can Record Direct To Storage

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Last month a US-based manufacturer laid claim to producing “…the world’s first line of cameras to record to storage”.   The press release on the vendor’s site was edited soon after, with “world’s first” changed to “their first line of cameras to record to storage“.

The initial press release certainly took many in the MOBOTIX community by surprise.  In fact it’s been 10 years since MOBOTIX invented the “decentralized recording” concept, and produced the world’s first IP camera that could record direct to storage.
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