Megapixel Surveillance Cameras

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In this blog, I will give information on megapixel trend in video and megapixel ip surveillance cameras used in the video surveillance camera systems, machine vision and industrial applications.

IP network cameras have been widely used in the security camera applications during last two years. Early IP cameras have had low resolution such as 320x240 pixels, poor image quality and low frame per second such as 10 frame per second. JPEG image resolution of VGA (640x480 pixels) at 25 or 30 frame per second has become the standard customer demand during last two years. Many IP camera installations has been made using mostly VGA resolution IP cameras.

But, recently there is a growing demand on megapixel IP cameras. Megapixel IP cameras have a lot of advantages against 640x480 pixels resoulution IP cameras, though megapixel cameras have some technical difficulties such as large bandwith need and huge storage hardware consumption.

The world video surveillance market for megapixel cameras will grow at a compound annual growth rate in excess of 100 percent over the next three years, according to a study by IMS Research. By 2009 it is forecast that over half a million units will be shipped a year. The market has overcome a number of hurdles to get to this position, according to the industry analysts.