Axis M1031-W camera

[Benji]

Hi All!
After having done some research, I have found out that the Axis M1031-W is the camera which lives best up to my requirements.

I am therefore now thinking of purchasing one of these cameras, but first I would like to know more about this camera...
Unfortunately I don't know anybody with such a camera, so I was wondering if anyone out there would like to come with some inputs for me, on the functionality, quality, dependability (picture dropping out) and the price of the camera??!!
It can also be both negative and positive experiences!

Thanks for now,

Benji

[bobby1471]

This camera is the most feature filled of the M10 series by axis. It has Wireless, Motion triggered light, 2 way sound functions, and a few other minor features.

My experience with this camera is, unless your planning on being in a very dark area such as a garage or an office after hours, save yourself a little money and go with the M1011w. It has the same functions except the audio, and the light for low light situations.
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[Benji]

How about the quality? I have read that if the camera senses any movement in front of the camera, then it would begin to record?!
But is it reliable? Can I trust that there aren't any "gaps" inbetween the recordments??
I have also read that you can get alarm notification through emails and sms, have you tried these services? does it work?

[timhillone]

This ip camera is H264 encoder! video will be more clearly. H264 WebCam 3.55 can support this ip camera with stream mode.
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[40th Floor]

This new m10 fw5 axis camera has one thing I've not seen before, HUGE data sizes for noisy images. 15 Mbits per second is not unsual, in any encode format (mpeg4-10, mpeg4-2, mjpeg). It needs a LOT of light to get a clean image, and without a clean picture mpeg4 encoding is no better than jpeg. You read that right. To get acceptable size data for noisy image data you have to crank up the compression to 90%. If you have the light, or can supply the bandwidth, it's not bad. It's 5.00 fw so it's got bugs.

Right now, in a not-that-dark room, 8 Mbps at 25 fps 640x480, compression set to 50% (mpeg4-2). mpeg4-10 , aka h.264, is even more at 9 Mbps (everything else the same as far as settings go). Motion-jpeg is 10.5 Mbps.

The darker it gets, the more bandwidth. The older fw4 axis 207 line didn't need so much bandwdith. Maybe later firmware will get things down into the 2 Mbps range. This thing is more like the 207mw (the 1280x1024 version) with regard to low-light image quality (i.e., not very good, but not as bad as the mw). It's not terrible, but like I said, noisy gets you HUGE data sizes.

The audio quality is again superb, just like the 207 line. It uses almost twice the power as the 207w did, at 7.5W. I think much of that is in the CPU, which is, I'd wildly guess, about 2 (perhap 3 or more) times faster than the processor in the 207.

By the way, the LED light does help a little, and the audio is the best I've heard (and it's two-way). To me that's worth the extra cost.

As far as I can tell, the thing is fixed-focus. The 207 lines you had to focus manually, and it was very easy to break the lens holder when doing it.
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[40th Floor]

Not quite twice as fast, not in MHz anyway,

The 1031 CPU (probably at 238 MHz)