With the improvement of global security awareness, the video surveillance market is growing, and the demand for IP camera products is growing. The good market environment has brought brand manufacturers huge market opportunities. No matter big brands or entrepreneurs have launched their own products, but due to the constraints of hardware, bandwidth and consumption level, 1080P image quality cameras are rare. What kind of experience can 1080P IP cameras bring to life security? Let's take a look at the performance of Tofucam N1 intelligent cloud camera.
Basic parameters
Sensor type: 2.0Mpixel 1/2.7 "CMOS
Minimum illumination: 0.1LuxF1.2 (Color mode), 0.05LuxF1.2 (B/W mode)
Lens: 2.8mm, vertical field angle 87 °, horizontal field angle 105 °
Maximum image size: 1920 * 1280
Frame rate 1080P（ 1920x1080@15fps )、720P( 1280x720@30fps )、 VGA( 640x480@30fps )、 QVGA( 320x240@30fps )
Audio compression standard: AAC, G.711A
Storage: Micro SD card (maximum 32G), cloud storage
Wireless standard: 802.11 b/g/n
Power supply: 5V/2A
Product size: 77 * 77 * 51mm
Package size: 156 * 136 * 62mm
Appearance&Workmanship
From the appearance, the overall packaging design is quite simple and elegant, and the paper square shape is also quite traditional.
The front side uses the promotional pictures of the mobile phone camera and multiple sets of optical lenses.
The menu style product features and attribute parameters are concentrated on the back of the package, and the image quality of 1080P is attractive.
There are "iPhone" and "Android" marks on the side of the package, indicating that Tofucam N1 client supports both Apple and Android.
Open the package and you will see the pure white accessory box, including the instruction manual, 3M glue and positioning sticker. However, the author always thinks that the Chinese and English hybrid labeling is somewhat nondescript. It is not practical to upgrade the product to the international level only through a few English letters.
It has to be mentioned that the design of the positioning drawing is very user-friendly. During installation, by pasting the drawing on the place where you want to install, and then placing the bracket along the drawing after drilling, you can achieve a perfect match between the drilled holes and threaded holes, which greatly facilitates the installation
Below the accessory box is the Tofucam N1 smart cloud camera body and power adapter. The whole product is embedded in the whole sponge cushion to avoid damage to the product during transportation.
Foldable (power interface) power adapter and 5V/2A output standard can also easily find "substitutes".
The 3-meter power cord is more suitable for various use scenarios, which is also the reason why the author thinks it is conscientious. Many manufacturers always cut corners on the power cord, which greatly reduces the user experience to a certain extent.
Tofucam N1 is cute and looks like a small robot. Compared with traditional webcams, it is smaller in size.
On the front is a 2 million pixel camera, which supports the highest resolution of 1920x1080, a qualitative leap over the resolution of 1280x720. It has its own light sensor, which supports automatic day night mode switching. The official logo has a night exposure distance of 10 meters.
The front end lens can be rotated manually, and the rotation range is 90 degrees up/down. Unfortunately, automatic cruise is not supported. In the case of unattended (manually adjusting the lens angle), the visual image is single and rigid.
Support TF memory card expansion, which can be monitored through mobile detection or all day recording to achieve local and cloud data storage.
Tofucam N1 has its own microphone and speaker, which can support two-way voice, and can carry out on-site dialogue in the scene of caring for children, the elderly, etc., More practical.
With its own aluminum metal bracket, Tofucam N1 supports multiple installation modes of desktop, ceiling and wall, and is equipped with standard interface of camera bracket. It is also easy to use it with camera bracket on the market.
Getting Started with&Software
Webcams are generally difficult to install. Although the official claims that Tofucam N1 network connection only needs three simple steps, the actual operation of the author is not as simple as the official said.
Select "Configure new camera" directly when using the software for the first time, the software will automatically fill in the network SSID, and enter the password manually to enter the next step.
Next is the anti human manual switching wireless network. Users need to manually connect to the hotspot sent by the camera to send the available wireless network information to the camera.
To complete the above steps, the user needs to manually switch to the wireless network, customize the camera name, and click Next to finally complete the connection process.
It is worth noting that Tofucam N1 does not support 5G routing signals for the time being. It is hoped that the official will solve the problem through firmware upgrade as soon as possible.
The software mainly includes the main interface, monitoring screen and settings, and supports multiple camera monitoring products.
The main monitoring interface supports horizontal and vertical screen operation. The screen behind the horizontal screen is larger and more natural, especially when monitoring tablet computers.
Tofucam N1 intelligent cloud camera is featured by high-definition image quality (1920 * 1080), and high-definition image quality has a certain demand for bandwidth. Although the author does not appear stuck in a complex network environment, he still recommends that users use it in an environment with an upload bandwidth of no less than 512kbps.
The setting interface is distributed at the lower part of the main monitoring interface, and it supports setting menus such as picture adjustment, audio reception, video recording and sneak shooting.
In the setting menu of the software, you can see a complete set of configuration functions, including camera name, memory details of TF card, installation method, sensitivity of motion detection, etc.
summary
advantage
Support 1080P HD image quality;
Compact shape, multiple installation methods;
Local/cloud data storage;
Support two-way voice
Insufficient
Although Tofucam N1 is a latecomer product in the security field, it has a good performance in caring for children, the elderly, pets and important property in the home with its high-definition image quality, two-way voice and other functions. However, the price of 499 is still under pressure in the webcam market.
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