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POE and wireless cameras

Tarsus Technologies has announced the availability of Cisco’s range of Power of Ethernet (POE) and wireless video cameras.

The first device in the range is the PVC2300 Internet video camera, which gives users the convenience of using a single POE-enabled cable for both communication and power. Cisco’s use of removable CS-mount lenses means that the camera can be customised with optional zoom, wide-angle, vari-focal, auto-iris, or other options. The PVC2300 also has two input and two output ports, which can be used to connect the camera to an alarm panel, siren, passive infrared (PIR) sensor, smoke detector, lighting switch (on/off), door sensor and more.

Wireless solutions start with the WVC2300, which is identical in functionality to the PVC2300, however, instead of using POE, it operates over 802.11G wireless networks and requires access to a conventional power outlet. The WVC200 can send live video through the Internet to a Web browser.

“The advanced MPEG-4 video compression used by these units produces a high-quality, high-frame-rate (up to 640 x 480) video stream, which facilitates good video quality in varying-bandwidth environments. The cameras can also take scheduled snapshots (in JPEG format) and save them to an FTP server.

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