A 1080p indoor and outdoor PoE dome on 802.3af, supporting 24/7 recording and Alarm.com's business analytics. Conventional hardware, but reachable only from the Alarm.com platform.
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These commercial cameras are PoE and otherwise conventional, but they are provisioned against an Alarm.com for Business account and expose no ONVIF or RTSP endpoint, so a Frigate or VMS deployment on the same network cannot record them and the analytics stay licensed to Alarm.com.
Being PoE makes the cabling ordinary, which is the frustrating part: the same cable run would feed an ONVIF camera that any video management system could use. As sold, the stream and the analytics are licensed to the Alarm.com platform, recordings land on an Alarm.com stream video recorder or the camera's own SD card, and neither is readable by other software. The community Home Assistant integration covers residential cameras rather than this commercial line, so even the cloud workaround does not apply here. We specify ONVIF cameras for commercial work so the client owns the footage and can change platform without rewiring.
1080p in a vandal-resistant dome, IEEE 802.3af PoE at around 10W, recording 24/7 to a microSD card or to a commercial stream video recorder.
Alarm.com’s business analytics run against it, which is the platform’s real commercial pitch: occupancy and people counting rather than only intrusion.
Those analytics are the lock-in. They are computed and licensed on Alarm.com’s side, so the camera is worth noticeably less on any other system, which is the point of selling it that way.
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