Best PTZ POE Outdoor Cameras

PTZ stands for panning tilting and zooming, meaning the security camera with panning horizontally, tilting vertically and zooming in and out capabilities in its way to operate the viewing and recording the area to cover. You can control the PTZ camera either local via your computer, NVR / DVR unit or remotely using your mobile devices.

Outdoor PTZ camera

Mostly PTZ camera is installed outdoor in harsh environment, exposed to sun ray, rain and wind and your camera should withstand to this harsh environment to guard your property at least to give you an early warning when intruder attempt to get into the outer ring of your property.     

It’s therefore your PTZ camera should be at least IP65 or IP66 or IP67 rated weatherproof. And some models are also IK10 vandal resistant.

POE Camera

Most PTZ outdoor security cameras are featured POE, meaning you can run a single UTP Cat5e or Cat6 network cable for both power and data medium from the camera to your network (NVR unit). However, for analog camera that comes with BNC connection it doesn’t support POE because the camera is analog model. analog camera using coaxial cable for connecting data from the camera to the DVR unit.

Best PTZ Outdoor Cameras

Let’s start with analog model which uses coaxial cable for transmitting data from camera to the digital video recorder (DVR) unit. And then followed by digital IP PTZ outdoor cameras that use POE network cable for data and power transmission. The following lists of popular and best PTZ outdoorcameras either for home or businesses.

1. Ventech VT65HB

The more optical zoom factor the better you can get the object image detail and the closer detail you can get. Ventect VT65HB offer you analog PTZ outdoor camera with 30x optical zoom feature and resolution is 1000TVL, as detail as 1080p resolution IP camera.

It also comes with high power 9pcs IR LEDs to view night vision up to 300ft distance in darkness of the night.  

Highlights

• 6” Analog PTZ camera with 1000TVL Sony image sensor
• Varifocal lens with focal length 5.35~96.3mm
• Panning up to 360°endless and 0°~ 90°tilt range
• Panning speed 6°~30°/s; tilting control speed 4~17°/s
• 30x optical zoom
• 9pcs high power IR LEDs range up to 300ft (98m)
• 128 presets, 4 patrol and 1 pattern
• IP66 rated weather proof with Solid metal housing
• TVS3000V lightning protection, surge protection and voltage transient protection,
• Comes with 100ft ready to use PTZ cable

Cons

• No Audio

With the absent of the audio you cannot get the audio in to listen to the surround area to monitor. This product is tagged with the price around $270 in the market. For cheaper product you may consider the following Sunba product.

Click here to learn more details Ventech PTZ camera

2. Sunba 405-22x

One of Sunba products in analog PTZ camera is Sunba 405-22x, an analog camera that requires you to run coaxial cable from the camera to the DVR unit like Ventech discussed above. Sunba 405-22x comes with 22x optical zoom factor, lower number of optical zoom factor than Ventech which is 30x optical zoom.

Sunba 405-22x delivers analog signal with 960H (700TVL) resolution, lower resolution than Ventech.

Highlights

• Analog PTZ outdoor camera with 960H (700TVL) resolution
• Varifocal lens 4.7~94.0mm providing you 49.6~ 2.5° range of field of view angle
• 22x optical zoom
• Night vision support with IR LEDs ~ 328ft distance
• 255 presets
• High speed 0~120°/s panning 360 endless
• Solid metal housing with IP66 weatherproof

Cons

• doesn’t support two way audio
• no vandal resistant

This product is economical model with the price tagged around $170 in Amazon, one of best PTZ camera in the market with reasonable price.

Clickhere to learn more details Sunba 405-22x

Now, let’s discuss few models of best PTZ outdoor cameras with IP digital technology as opposed with analog camera products. With IP camera you can join the camera with your existing computer network in home or in offices to connect to the internet in case you need to monitor the camera remotely via internet.

3. Amcret IP4m-1053

Unlike the two products above, this one Amcrest IP4m-1053 is an IP camera, PTZ outdoor camera with higher resolution of 4MP (aka 2K) resolution with H.265 compression format (more efficient for storage and reduce network latency).

It is designed with metal based housing and looks a bit big for PTZ camera in general. It comes with 4-MP STARVIS™ Sony CMOS image sensor with Ambarella Chipset S3L55M and it features 12x optical zoom.  

Highlights

• Ultra HD @4MP (2K) resolution @30 frame per second (fps)
• Supports H.265 more efficient compression format for lower network latency and storage space
• 1/3” 4-MP STARVIS™ CMOS image sensor with Ambarella Chipset S3L55M
• Focal Length: 5.3mm~64mm angle of View: H: 58.2° ~ 4.8°
• 12x Optical zoom with the addition of 16x digital zoom
• 6pcs IR high power LEDs range up to 328ft (100m)
• Panning endless 360°
• Memory slot up to 128GB micro SD card
• POE+
• In/Out audio interface
• IP66 weatherproof rated with metal housing

Cons

• more expensive

You can connect to any high resolution NVR unit or Blue Iris software to operate this camera, and you can also control using your mobile devices, Android or iOS with downloaded apps.

Click here to learn more details Amcret IP4m-1053

This product becomes one of best PTZ camera introduced by Amcrest with higher resolution compared with the previous PTZ outdoor camera products offered by Amcrest with reasonable price.

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