As any security pro will tell you, the Dahua brand is

big in the eye-spy world. With revenues approaching

a billion dollars, 592 patents and more than 3,000

engineers employed in R&D alone, Dahua is an award-

winning, end-to-end solutions company as synonymous

with security as the Guggenheim is with design and as

widespread as a Trump billboard in Massachusetts.

You’ll find Dahua’s advanced video surveillance, access

control and smart building management systems protecting

banks, public buildings, energy infrastructure, telecommunication

and transport infrastructure in every corner of the world, including

the darkest corners of the London Underground.

Only last year, along Beijing’s West Chang’an Avenue,

scores of Dahua ‘Starlight’ bullet cameras monitored the

security of 12,000 armed troops and tons of lethal military

hardware parading to commemorate victory in WW2. Imagine

the tech muscle and precision you’d need to draw a protective

net around something as formidable as the People’s Liberation

Army. From every angle Dahua amounts to weaponised

surveillance: insurgents (including the miscreants with designs

on your client’s most cherished valuables) beware!

Bigger Range, Better Support and UHD!For many reasons we’ve taken the opportunity to step up

from IC Realtime to Dahua, but the move is more nuanced

than you’d think. This is because Dahua is an OEM supplier

of ICR. The high build quality remains but what’s new is

a more productive support relationship with the supplier

through Security Dynamics - Dahua’s UK disti - together

with better system integration, great prices and a wider,

smarter, more capable range, handpicked by Habitech for

our CI customers.

Our new Dahua offering involves as many as seventeen

IP network cameras, all POE, including Dome, Bullet, PTZ,

‘Starlight’ low-light models and covert ‘pinhole’ designs

spanning all resolutions from HD to UHD 4k (8MP versions

and the latest 12MP models), supported by no fewer than

eleven NVRs - nine with 4k/12MP capability - offering up to

32 channels with 16TB HDDs.

Most cameras offer a useful IR range of between 30

and 50m, are either IP66 or IP67 rated (that’s dust plus

total immersion at up to 1m depth) and provide triple

stream encoding, enabling customised configuration of

codec, frame rate and bitrate depending on where the live

view is headed: UHD, 1080p or lower res screens, mobiles

etc. All have Wide Dynamic Range (WDR or digital

equivalent DWDR), which greatly improves the image

clarity of extremely bright, dark or backlight scenes.

High Tech Spy TechCustomise your counter-measures with 4K res and a host of smart features from Dahua’s weapons-grade security technology. Habitech MD Jonathan Pengilley intros the new range.

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Draw in the netAs well as the high quality build and reliability you’d expect

from a top security brand, Dahua offers an armoury of

spook features that will empower and customise your

countermeasures. Many cameras support ‘intelligent

analytics’, including the ability to draw your ‘Region of

Interest’ (ROI) security cordons onto the camera view in

the software. When breached, the cordon activates the

alerts and alarms. In this way treasured items can be ring-

fenced and ‘trip-wire’ lines set to snare intruders. Another

feature called ‘Intrusion Detection’ logs and reports

moving objects in the area you define while ‘Abandoned/

Missing Detection’ automatically flags up the arrival and

removal of objects in the camera view.

Smarter all roundOther countermeasures available from Dahua cameras

include ‘Scene Change Detection’, which triggers

when the camera is moved; ‘Audio Detection’, which

listens for audio anomalies in the protected area and

‘Facial Detection’, which activates if the face doesn’t

fit. It may sound a tad ‘Mission Impossible’, but this is

resolutely spy-science fact: pure, applied and proven.

Insurgent elements will be recorded and reported in real

time to monitors and mobiles, according to the rules

and red-lines that you establish. Dahua’s advanced

custom installed surveillance is designed to confound all

attempts to damage or steal, which is the point of the

exercise and the outcome your customers will pay for.

The 2MP ‘Starlight’

dome and bullet cameras

provide these smart

features as standard,

as does the little IPC-

HUM8101 HD pinhole

camera and the top-

of-the-line PTZ model

- the SD6AW230-HNI

- which bolts on further

IVS (Intelligent Video

Surveillance) functionality

such as sophisticated auto-tracking and triggers, as well

as ‘loitering detection’ and ‘illegal parking’ modes. It’s a

snooper’s charter in smart camera form! What’s more the

weapons-grade tech can be combined with 4K res on

the new 12MP IPC-81200 series of UHD dome and bullet

cameras for the ultimate in smart security.

12MP 4K UHD Dome and Bullet Cameras

The Dahua HDBW81200E-Z dome and HFW81200E-Z bullet

cameras provide 3840 X 2160 at 30fps through a Sony Exmor

R 1/1.7in CMOS colour sensor with 12-Megapixel resolution

and the Ambarella Cortex-A9 1GHz dual core DSP, which

generates clearer images with higher sensitivity and lower noise.

Their 4K Ultra HD resolution delivers sharp, brilliantly detailed

full-scene fidelity inside and outside the property, day and night,

enhanced by four times optical zoom with synchronous focusing

and wide angle viewing. Smart detection features (optional on

the dome) include Tripwire, Intrusion, Scene change, Missing/

Abandoned and Audio detect.

Starlight Cameras

The Dahua HDB(W)8281-Z dome and HFW8281E-Z

bullet are designed for low-light condition monitoring with

0.005Lux/F1.65 (colour) of light illumination and 2MP 1/1.9in

progressivescan CMOS image sensors for capturing full

colour images at up to maximum 50/60fps@1080P encoding.

Wide Dynamic Range offers high performance in extremely

bright, dark or backlit areas and smart analytics include

Tripwire, Intrusion, Scene change, Missing/Abandoned, Audio

detect, People counting, Face detect, auto-tracking and Heat

map, which IDs hot spots in low light.

Mini PTZsThe ‘Red-Dot’ design award-winning

Dahua SD29204S-GN mini network

PTZ is an easy one-step ceiling install

but gives you up to 25/30fps@1080P,

50/60fps@720P resolution, H.264/M-

JPEG triple-stream encoding, 4x

optical zoom, DWDR, 360 degree

viewing angle, and 30m IR.

More information: Habitech +44 (0)1256 638500

www.habitech.co.uk

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The top-of-the-line SD6AW230-HNI PTZ model is brimming with IVS functionality

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