The Bastion 4.0

Product Description

The Bastion 4.0 is our most powerful and versatile small PTZ ever! The Bastion is a 4" IK10 vandal resistant dome PTZ camera that doesn't compromise on range. Within that 4" dome is a 16x zoom, 325FT of infrared, and a fast responsive PTZ motor. The Bastion can also be mounted in more applications than ever, including direct ceiling mount, mounting box, in ceiling mounts, and traditional PTZ wall arm mounts!

Resolution

4MP @ 30 FPS; 2688 x 1520

Detect: 750 ft
Recognize: 650 ft
Identify: 575 ft

Processing Power and Compression: Not All 1080P Cameras are Created Equal

Indoor/Outdoor

IP66
Full protection from dust, rain, snow, dew, frost, and sprinklers.

Temp

Extreme Cold Temperature rated from -40°F to 149°F

Humidity-rated between up to 95%.

Lens

Motorized PTZ Varifocal: 5.5 - 88mm
50.85° - 3.47° of coverage

Digital Zoom and Optical Zoom

Learn about Digital vs Optical Zoom

Day/Night

Infrared night vision up to 325 FT

Color video possible until 0.005 lux

How to get the best footage at night

Special

IK10 Impact Resistant

4" Small Dome PTZ

Audio Input and Output
Audio Input/Output FAQ

True 120db Wide Dynamic Range

NDAA Compliant M-Star CPU

Compact Dome PTZ

MicroSD Card Slot

Pan: 360° (endless) rotation
Tilt: -5° ~ +90° (auto-flip)

Seeing in shadows: Understanding WDR

What makes the Bastion 4.0 Unique:

IK10 - The Highest Rating for Physical Damage Protection

This camera has achieved a rating of IK10.

IK10 is the highest measurement rating for protection from physical damage for security camera products using the international standard IEC 62262 scale. IK10 is the highest rating possible, and this camera should be protect against many human-based forms of destructive vandalism.

Most security camera manufacturer and retailers use an image of a hammer hitting a camera as a way to explain vandal proof ratings. This can be misleading.

Please don't misunderstand the scale and think that IK10 cameras are indestructible. We're happy to have gotten the highest rating possible, but want to make sure that we're not creating unrealistic expectations.

There's no ability to make a product that can never be damaged, and hitting any security camera with a hammer will almost always damage it. Technically, IK10 means that it is has survived a 20 joules impact repeated 5 times with no damage to function, in a lab and under normal environmental settings. As a point of reference, a baseball bat swing from a professional MLB player, in a normal horizontal stance, with a wooden bat, causes about a 200 joules impact on the ball. A metal bat or metal hammer has the ability to transfer even more energy if the contact area is smaller.

Although our camera has the highest rating possible, the IK10 standard isn't really as high as these "IK10 hammer" images make them appear. IK10 camera are not bomb proof, or bullet-proof, or hammer proof. No matter what other companies put on their images, if you hit their products or ours (or really anything made of glass) with a hammer or baseball bat, you probably are going to break the glass and get hurt.

pan tilt zoom pans back and forth on patrol

Presets, Patrols and Patterns

This PTZ can save and perform Presets, Patrols, and Patterns.

Presets are preset positions of the PTZ. For example, you could save the driveway that you have to drive through to enter your property as a preset. Upon telling the camera to view that preset, your PTZ will move to look at that area and then zoom in to the level defined by your preset. You can define 255 presets.

Patrols are a series of presets with a defined amount of time spent at each. Unlike Patterns, where the movement is part of the process, patrols are used to quickly move from point A to point B. A patrol is often used to check important entry points of buildings repeatedly - look at the warehouse bay, then the front door, then the loading dock, etc.

Patterns are recorded movements you can replay, and are like macros that can be performed at any time. For example, you could have a Pattern that involves zooming in rapidly to a preset level of zoom and then zooming back out again that you use to ID faces at distance or zoom in on licence plates. Another popular macro style is to create one that moves the PTZ at a steady speed along a predetermined route; patterns like this can be very valuable for following a product on an assembly line or the flow of traffic. Patterns can also be used to slowly pan across a field or other action where the points of interest are not known in advance.

A total of 16 Patrols and Patterns can be stored.

Patterns and Patrols can be performed automatically.

Bitrate - 4MP

At 4MP and 30 FPS, while recording at H.265, this camera should use 4Mbps of the NVR's bitrate budget. (With H.264, it should use 8Mbps).

Did you know: The processor in an NVR has both an incoming and outgoing bitrate. Incoming is for recording video and outgoing is for watching it remotely. All of our NVRs have at least 5Mbps per channel in incoming bitrate, and many models can have extra bitrate. Your NVR's spare incoming bitrate is what determines if it can record channels at higher-than-1080P resolution, use specialty panoramic cameras, or many other things (see individual NVR models).

Admiral Line Camera Features:

Plug & Play with Admiral & Imperial NVRs

This camera will plug and play with our Admiral and Imperial line of NVRs.

Please note that our camera models with model numbers in the 26xxx format record in the new, more efficient H.265 compression codex and are intended to work with our Imperial and Admiral NVRs.

line crossing event and other recording modes

Event Recording Mode through Video Content Analysis (VCA)

This camera features AI enhanced Intrusion Detection and Line Crossing. These VCA options can be set to filter by people or vehicles using the onboard AI enhanced chipset.

Entering an area

Lingering in an area

Crossing a Line

Covering, damaging, or moving the camera lens

In addition you can search your video footage for these events

*Each feature must be enabled and set up before it can be searched. Not all features can run at once.

Get Alerted when there's Motion

With this camera and an SCW Admiral or Imperial NVR, you can send Snapshot Email Alerts.

You can set up your recorder to email a series of pictures to you when motion is detected by one of your SCW cameras (or if one of our other VCA events is observed). You can choose specific dates and times for these alerts to be active and other times for these alerts to be ignored. Some Snapshot email options are based upon your current recording mode.

Motion Detection, Continuous, and Event Recording Modes

You can record your SCW cameras continuously, via motion, or even via VCA (video content analysis) events like intrusion detection.

You can create individual schedules for each camera, including hours for motion recording mode, hours for continuous recording mode, hours for event recording mode, or even hours when that camera is off completely.

Customizable Motion Detection Recording

With this camera and an SCW Admiral or Imperial NVR, you have video analytics-based motion detection.

Motion detection can also be used to send you email alerts when motion is detected or to record when recording on motion events. You can modify the sensitivity level so that more or less movement is required for the motion detection to trigger. You can create inclusion areas (places where you care if there is motion) and define the rest as exclusion areas (places where you don't care if there is motion). So, for example, you could create a motion based alert to notify you if someone was in your yard, but ignore them if they were on the sidewalk or in the street.

No Recording Delay; See What Happened before Motion was Detected

Many consumer-grade cameras use PIR sensors to trigger a camera to turn on when something gets close enough to the sensor. This is a bad design as there's a slight delay (0.5-3 seconds) that can cause the camera to not record what happened. Our cameras not only don't have a recording delay but allow you to record up to 30 seconds before the motion.

Don't miss out on important motion events: go back in time, before the event, to understand why it happened.

1 Click Firmware Update

Tired of chasing down firmware from the manufacturer, downloading the firmware, uploading the firmware to the device, and then restarting the device? Don't bother!

This device checks for firmware and then downloads and installs it, itself, with one click.

3-Year Warranty

This camera has an industry leading 3-year warranty. This camera can also be upgraded to a 5-year warranty.

Weatherproof Housing

This camera has a Weatherproof Housing.

It has been rated at IP67 which means that International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) international standard 60529 has rated this camera housing as having full protection from dust and safe from water damage up to powerful jets of water and immersion up to 1 meter up to 30 minutes.

This camera can be safely used outdoors.

Attention: The IP67 rating covers the camera's housing not the cable. Don't ever submerge cables. Please follow our RJ45 Waterproofing Guide for weatherizing your cable connections.

Commercial-Grade Aluminum Molding

This camera is commercial-grade and is made of cast aluminum and ceramic molding, instead of the typical plastic molding common in the industry.

This product has passed vibration tests, can withstand an electrical surge up to 6,000 volts, and the casing will prevent intrusion of both dust and water into the internal component space. The screws and mounting hardware are made of stainless steel that has passed SUS410 salt spray anti-corrosion testing. We use automotive-grade LEDs and anti-reflection glass (which means better infrared results). In short, this camera is going to hold up over time.

Anti-Reflective Glass

This camera has Anti-Reflective Glass.

Anti-Reflective Glass allows better light transmission vs standard glass. Standard glass cameras often come with a foam ring around the lens to prevent infrared light from bouncing back off the glass and entering the lens. This bounce-back can cause extreme differences in infrared lighting, which makes some items too bright and others too washed out if the ring is loose, ripped, or removed. Anti-Reflective Glass prevents this issue. Also, people have a tendency to accidentally destroy, damage, throw away or lose these foam rings. Anti-Reflective Glass reduces maintenance and user error.

Auto Grade LEDs

This camera has Auto Grade LEDs.

Many IP cameras include low-quality infrared bulbs that fail over time. This camera has Automotive Grade LEDs, and you should expect the same sort of longevity from them as the headlights in your car.

Headlight Compensation

This camera has Headlight Compensation.

Vehicle headlights directly into the camera lens can render many cameras useless. Headlight compensation reduces glare and overexposure due to car headlights.

At SCW, we try not to use the misleading term "License Plate Camera." The term "License plate cameras" is used rather flippantly by the security camera industry, has no real definition as a term, and can sometimes mean simply the presence of HLC; be careful with companies offering a simple solution to a very complex task of capturing license plates.

For more info, please read our knowledge base article on What they don't tell you about License Plate Cameras.

See through Fog with Automatic Defog

This camera has Automatic Defog.

Our automatic defog feature allows you to cut through fog, air pollution, and other atmospheric haze.

Adjustable Shutter Speed for Customizable Performance in Low Light

This camera has an Adjustable Shutter Speed in a range between 1/30s to 1/100,000 of a second.

The shutter in a camera controls how long the camera takes to take a picture, but faster doesn't mean better. The faster that a camera shutter opens and closes, the more likely that you will get a clear, blur-free image. The longer that the shutter is open, the more light you let in and the better your image will be in low light. Shutters that are open for an extremely long time allow you to take color pictures at night/twilight without having to switch to infrared mode, but can result in motion blur.

There's no one-size fits all approach to shutter speed, so we give you full control (and free tech support) to set it up the best way possible.

H.265 Recording

This device can record in H.265

H.265, also known as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or MPEG-H Part 2, is the video compression standard which replaces H.264. HEVC was a collaboration by many parties including Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Dolby, and the Moving Picture Experts Group. In comparison to H.264, H.265 offers about double the data compression ratio at the same level of video quality, which means both substantially improved video quality at the same bitrate and lower storage requirements.

H.265 saves hard drive space and increases the quality of an image by splitting the screen into a grid and only updating the sections that changed from the previous frame. This focuses nearly all of the processing power of the camera on the areas of the screen with activity. The image quality differences of H.265 is most noticeable in situations such as attempting to watch your camera remotely if your internet upload speed is slow.

You can also record in H.264 if you need backwards compatibility.

ONVIF Conformant

This device is ONVIF Conformant.

ONVIF is an open industry standard encoding language for the interface of IP-based physical security products.

POE (Power over Ethernet)

This camera can be powered via an ethernet cable.

POE allows a Cat5 cable to both carry data and power, making it so that you only have to run one cable. You will need either a POE injector, a POE switch or one of our NVRs with built-in SCWEasyConnect POE to power a camera via ethernet.

**There is an optional wall plug adapter on most of our camera models. This wall plug adapter is only used by clients who cannot run POE cables.

UL Listed and FCC Certified

This product is UL Listed and FCC certified

UL is a safety consulting and certification company headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, and provides safety-related certification, validation, testing, inspection, and auditing of SCW products.

The Federal Communications Commission has certified that the electromagnetic interference from the device is under limits approved by the FCC.

American-Based Technical Support after the sale. For FREE. Forever.

Real review from Larry, who had this to say:

The most important part of a purchase like this is the support for technical assistance when there is a question or when there is a problem, and they always exceed expectations!

All of our equipment comes with Free Technical Support that is US based (Our Warehouse and Staff are located in Asheville, NC). We're happy to help you via chat, email, screen share / remote support sessions, and phones. Our number is 866-414-2553 and we're open from 9-7 M-F (EST).

Specs

The Bastion 4.0 - 26ZV4M-4ID - 4MP (2x1080p) IP PTZ Camera with 16x Optical Zoom

Pan and Tilt Controls	26ZV4M-4ID
Pan Range	360° (endless)
Pan Speed	0.1°/s~240°/s
Tilt Range	–5° ~ +90° (auto flip)
Tilt Speed	0.1° ~ 120°/s
Max Presets	1024
Home Position	Supported
Patrol Types	Preset Patrols, Pattern Patrols
Patrol Stay Time	15 seconds minimum to 1800 seconds maximum
Max Patrols	Up to 16 patrols, up to 64 presets per patrol Note: The total number of patrols and patterns is 16.
Image Specifications	26ZV4M-4ID
Image Sensor	1/2.9", 4 megapixel, progressive scan, CMOS
Processor Manufacturer	NDAA Compliant M-Star CPU
VCA / Smart Features	AI Enhanced Line Crossing, Intrusion Detection
Min. Illumination	Color video until 0.005 Lux @F1.78 0 lux with IR on
Iris	Auto F1.78-F3.73
Shutter	Auto/Manual, 1 ~ 1/100000s
Lens	5.5~88mm 50.85° - 3.47°° of horizontal coverage (29.94°-1.95° vertical)
Day & Night	IR-cut filter with auto switch (ICR)
Digital Noise Reduction	2D/3D DNR
Wide Dynamic Range	True 120dB WDR
Digital Defog	Yes
Max. Image Resolution	2688x1520; 4 Megapixel
Frame Rate	4MP (2688*1520) 30FPS
Image Settings	Saturation, brightness, contrast, sharpness, headlight compensation, backlight compensation, region of interest, evaluative metering.
Backlight Compensation (BLC)	Supported
Networking Specifications	26ZV4M-4ID
Video Compression	Ultra H.265, H.265, H.264, MJPEG
Camera Streams	Main Stream: up to 4MP (2688*1520) 30FPS fps Sub Stream: up to 720p (1280×720): Max. 30FPS fps;
Bit Rate	128 Kbps ~ 16Mbps
Edge Storage	Micro SD (Card not included) up to 256 GB
Protocols	IPv4; IPv6; IGMP; RTP; ICMP; ARP; TCP; UDP; DHCP; PPPoE; RTSP; RTCP; RTMP; DNS; DDNS; NTP; FTP; UPnP; HTTP; HTTPS; 802.1x; SNMP; QoS; SSL/TLS
Interoperability	ONVIF(Profile S, Profile G, Profile T)
Inputs / Outputs	26ZV4M-4ID
Communication Interface	1 RJ45 10M/100M Base-TX Ethernet
Alarm Inputs/Outputs	2 input; 1 output
Alarm Triggers	Motion detection, tampering alarm, network disconnect, IP address conflict, storage exception
Audio Inputs/Outputs	Bare Wire 1 Input / 1 Output
Audio Compression	G.711U; G.711A
General Specifications	26ZV4M-4ID
Operating Conditions	-40°F ~ 149°F, Humidity ≤ 95% RH(non-condensing)
Rain/Snow/Dust Prevention	Structure and window designed to battle bad weather
Power Supply	DC12V(±10%) 3A - PoE+ (802.3at) injector not required or included. Ensure your PoE switch or NVR can provide adequate power, if not a PoE+ injector may be required.
Power Consumption	Power consumption: 23W
Surge Protection	6KV
Impact Protection	IK10 impact resistance rating
Weather Proof Rating	IP66
Mounting Box	EBM26P (For ceiling/soffit mounting)
Dimensions	Ø6.6” x 7.1”
IR Range	Up to 325 ft.
Weight	5.07 Lbs

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