The ability to identify people and objects of interest in environments with near total darkness is critical to the operational requirement of many surveillance systems. Illustra’s Ultravision technology is designed to provide those images whilst effectively maintaining colour video well below 0.05 lux. Illustra Ultravision is ideal for applications such as car parks, alleyways, warehouses and other settings with challenging lighting conditions, where maintaining quality colour images is critical to the surveillance operation. Low light technology removes the need to install supplementary lighting, or the requirement to leave lights on in order to retain colour pictures.

The Illustra Pro 2MP mini-dome, is packed with functions that can improve operator efficiency and reduce the overall cost of the system. For instance, the advanced on-board face detection analytics can generate an event every time a face is detected. Operators can easily review events in the video management system to locate the video they require, enabling more efficient use of the CCTV system.

Other analytics such as blur detection and tampering will quickly alert operators if someone tries to cover or tamper with the camera. To help reduce network infrastructure and storage costs, the Illustra Pro 2MP mini-dome provides a highly efficient bandwidth performance that is further assisted by up to five individual regions of interest to maximise the detail clarity in areas identified as most important.

The mini-dome series can also automatically increase video quality to areas of interest and to people’s faces, reducing storage requirements and system bandwidth usage, and ultimately helping to reduce the cost of a surveillance system

In addition, true wide dynamic range (100db) optimises video in extremely varied lighting conditions. Crisp, clear images not only make it easier to analyse an event such as a theft or health and safety incident, they also reduce the amount of bandwidth needed, leading to lower storage costs.  A motorised 3-9 mm or 9-22 mm lens option is also available. Auto-focus and field of view are set from the web browser, which speeds up the installation time of each Illustra Pro camera

“In many security scenarios today, it’s critically important to be able to identify people and objects of interest in extreme low light situations,” said Stuart Bettle, Video Product Marketing Manager, EMEA, Tyco Security Products. “With the introduction of Illustra Ultravision, Tyco Security Products is able to provide exceptional low light colour video quality 24/7 for our customers.”