Vimtag: Panoramic Surveillance Cameras

Following the introduction of card machines, PTZ cameras, outdoor waterproof guns, and a variety of peripherals, Vimtag has also introduced a panoramic smart ip camera with impressive effects and a wide range of applications: the Vimtag F1 smart ip camera.

The Vimtag F1 intelligent panoramic ip camera is a brand-new smart camera launched in late 2017. It supports a resolution of up to 3 megapixels and provides users with a clear and smooth picture viewing experience. As a panoramic smart ip camera, in addition to the impressive screen resolution and real-time video smoothness, the 3D view technology can be said to be the biggest selling point of the Vimtag F1 intelligent panoramic camera.

The 3D view technology is a video viewing technology specifically for the Vimtag F1 smart camera, to allow viewing of distortion images taken with the fisheye lens of the camera using a normal viewing angle. At the same time, in order to support the different needs of different types of users, the Vimtag F1 smart camera supports a variety of different modes of video viewing, including fisheye panorama, unfolded view, binary screen, quadrant screen, and columnar mode.

In addition, the Vimtag F1 panoramic smart camera also supports a variety of storage methods, including SD cards, cloud storage, and cloud boxes, allowing users to choose more storage options. Moreover, videos stored by these storage devices can also be remotely viewed through the mobile phone without requiring separate access to the storage devices.

Among them, in order to store more videos, the Vimtag F1 smart camera supports the insertion and use of SD cards up to 128G capacity, and also supports access to cloud boxes with 4T capacity. If you do not want to configure the storage device, you can also choose to purchase the cloud service to upload the video to the cloud assigned by the account. Of course, no matter which storage method you choose, when the storage capacity of the storage device is filled up, the latest video recording will automatically overwrite the oldest recorded video so that the camera can keep normal operation and keep the camera's captured picture as the latest shot. 

Mijia smart IP camera review: most advanced at its price -part 3

APP operation

The operation interface is relatively simple, users can adjust the camera direction (up, down, left, right) on the main interface, take pictures, make videos, voice calls, etc., as well as adjust the sharpness of the image. In order to more clearly observe the monitoring screen, the user can switch to full screen for viewing. In the full screen mode, the user can directly adjust the direction of the camera by sliding the screen. When someone in the care area enters or the object moves, the camera immediately records the alarm video and sends a notification to the user. The recorded video is also encrypted and uploaded to the cloud, and is retained for 7 days. Of course, Mijia smart IP camera can also store video directly on the extended memory card.

     

In addition, the Xiaomi Mijia smart IP camera can provide two-way voice and one-way video call, both sides can open Mijia's non-intercom call, more convenient for users and their families to communicate remotely. In addition to being a high-definition smart camera, Xiaomi IP Camera also has voice recognition and semantic recognition capabilities. Users can perform simple voice chats with this smart xiaomi home camera, such as weather, celebrities, arithmetic, and more.

Real shot test

As a home smart camera product, we naturally pay more attention to the quality of the shot. Mijia smart camera supports 1080p full HD shooting, supports 4x digital zoom, supports 360-degree panoramic shooting, at the same time, Mi also has infrared night vision which can be used normally in the night environment.

Evaluation summary

Through the actual test of the Mijia smart IP camera, I think that the Mijia smart camera is a more practical home smart camera products, it can not only meet the security needs of home users, in terms of performance is also very good, supporting 1080P High-definition shooting, night vision, and 360-degree panoramic shooting, which make it possible to monitor a wider range, reduce blind spots for surveillance and ensure safety at home. In other functions, Mijia smart camera supports two-way voice call and one-way video call function, etc. It has rich functions, good user experience and high cost performance.

Mijia smart IP camera review: most advanced at its price -part 2

There are two speakers distributed on both sides of the “head” on the Mijia smart camera, which can realize the function of two-way voice call and voice interaction. The overall effect of the sound during the call is fairly good. The reset button, power jack, and Micro SD card slot are located on the edge of the base of the Xiaomi Mijia smart IP camera. The power port uses a common Micro USB port, and the power port is designed along the edge of the chassis, which is also beneficial to the power supply. In addition, Mijia smart camera supports 32G storage expansion.

There is a ring of rubber anti-slip mats on the base of Mijia smart camera, which can make the camera more stable placed on some smooth home surfaces, and it can also prevent the camera from moving.

Configuration

In terms of configuration, Xiaomi IP Camera adopts dual motors and no cantilever design. Users can freely adjust the shooting angle of the camera through the Xiaomi smart home app to achieve 360-degree viewing without dead ends. Xiaomi Mijia smart IP camera also has 1080P ultra-clear display resolution, using Ambarella S2LM image processing chip, equipped with the United States OV HD Sensor, support Magic Zoom \ 4 times digital zoom. Xiaomi Mijia smart IP camera uses the EVETAR low-distortion professional lens, and at the same time with the LDC distortion correction technology, the object reduction degree is more realistic, and the detail display is more objective. At the same time, Mijia smart camera also has infrared night vision function, can also monitor the situation at night.

Connection settings

Mijia smart IP camera can be controlled through the "MI smart home" APP. After downloading and installing the APP, you can add the Mijia smart IP camera to “My Device” through Xiaomi Smart Home APP. In the process of operation, it will also have a corresponding voice prompts to guide the user to operate.

Mijia smart IP camera review: most advanced at its price -part 1

With the increasing popularity of smart home products, smart cameras have long been known to all, and consumer demand for such products is also increasing. Today's review of this original Mijia small smart IP camera, which has been a certain degree of upgrade in the function, it not only has real-time monitoring, 1080p HD shooting, infrared night vision and other useful features, but also has two-way conversation, voice interactive real-time interaction and more features. The most important thing is that Mijia is a smart camera with 360 degrees panoramic shooting. It can monitor the indoor environment in a panoramic way, leaving no blind spots for surveillance. Here let us take a look at this Mijia smart IP camera.

Design

Xiaomi Mijia smart IP camera as a whole uses a sleek design, with a pure white body color, looks like a home smart robot. In order to achieve 360 degrees panorama shooting, the Xiaomi Mijia smart IP camera is divided into upper and lower parts, the upper part is a "spherical" camera part, can achieve 360 degrees rotation shooting, but also can be adjusted up and down for 85 degrees, more extension area can be monitored clearly. The Xiaomi IP Camera uses the SABIC substrate as its outer shell and has a specular highlight treatment on the surface, which looks very beautiful and stylish.

The base of the Xiaomi Mijia smart IP camera also adopts a round streamlined design. In the front of the base, there is a unique physical key of the camera, the “function key”. The specific function is: Short press to open the voice continuous conversation function; long press to initiate a voice call, press the key to end the call. There is a status indicator below the function keys that represents the different states of the camera depending on the color or flashing status.

Qualcomm Introduces 10-Mbit Single-Chip Visual Intelligent Platform

Mobile processor maker Qualcomm announced on April 12 that it will launch the Qualcomm Vision Intelligence Platform. The platform is equipped with the first system-on-chip (SoC) series specifically designed for the Internet of Things (IoT) using the advanced 10nm FinFET process technology - QCS605 and QCS603. The two system single chips can be used for a wide range of IoT applications to provide powerful computing capabilities for the camera's built-in camera processing and machine learning, as well as excellent efficiency and cooling efficiency.

Qualcomm pointed out that the QCS605 and QCS603 systems integrate Qualcomm's advanced image signal processor (ISP) and Qualcomm artificial intelligence (AI) engine on a single chip, and also include ARM's advanced multi-core CPUs, vector processors, and GPUs. The vision intelligence platform also includes Qualcomm's advanced camera processing software, machine learning and computer vision software development kit (SDK), and Qualcomm's proven connectivity and security technologies. The platform has been optimized to bring exciting new opportunities and possibilities for industrial and consumer smart security ip camera, motion camera, wearable camera, virtual reality (VR) 360-degree and 180-degree camera, robots and smart screen. Currently including KEDACOM and Ricoh THETA are all planning to develop products based on Qualcomm's visual intelligence platform.

Qualcomm further emphasized that the visual intelligence platform integrates a Qualcomm artificial intelligence engine (AI Engine) composed of multiple hardware and software components to accelerate terminal equipment artificial intelligence. Qualcomm artificial intelligence engine includes Qualcomm Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine (NPE) software framework (for development with the TensorFlow, Caffe, and Caffe2 frameworks, tools for analysis, optimization, and debugging), Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) exchange format, and Android Neural Network API and Qualcomm Hexagon Neural Network Library. All of the above designs are designed to support developers and OEM vendors so that they can easily connect training networks to this platform. Moreover, through the Qualcomm artificial intelligence engine and the Snapdragon neural processing engine software framework, the visual intelligence platform can provide up to 2.1 trillion operations per second for deep neural network reasoning, improving performance over other leading alternative solutions.