Fixed camera vs PTZ

A fixed camera looks at one place. A PTZ (pan, tilt, zoom) turns and zooms. In the request the question is not which is better in the abstract: it is what must stay visible at all times and what must be followed in the yard.

Palo Security supplies IP cameras, PTZ cameras and the recorder that goes with them. The lines are Hikvision, Dahua, Axis, Avigilon, EZVIZ and Bosch. Quantity, position and model are set in the quote.

The fixed view

It suits the door, reception, the corridor and the point the patrol always passes. The picture does not depend on someone steering the camera. If that view must be in the archive every hour, fixed is the right place.

The PTZ

It suits the yard, the parking area and the perimeter where one view does not reach. The control room follows movement. While the PTZ looks left, the right is not in that frame. That is why a PTZ does not remove the fixed cameras from the doors.

Both on the same site

• Fixed cameras on the entrances and corridors that must stay recorded.
• PTZ on the yard or parking, where the area is wide.
• The recorder — DVR or NVR, according to the cameras — stores both.

Thermal on the perimeter and LPR at the gate are other articles. Each solves a different problem from the fixed view and the PTZ.

What to say in the request

1. Which doors and corridors must always be in the video.
2. Which yards or parking areas need a camera that follows movement.
3. Whether the control room steers the cameras live, or only the archive.

Position closes the set, not an invented number of PTZ cameras. Tell us the site and we prepare the quote.