If you know the world of video surveillance, or even work in it, you know. You know that it is a very vast and complex world, where you can find various types of industrial PCs, depending on the installation in which you have to insert them…
Last week we shipped 3 Kimera Computers Rack Industrial PCs and 3 Kimera Pro 4.0 to the same customer.
Both types were intended for video surveillance systems but these models are not the same.
They have specific characteristics, which are essential if you are looking for an industrial PC to be inserted into video surveillance systems…
Industrial PCs for video surveillance systems: what types are used?
As you know, industrial PCs are usually used for video surveillance installations, allowing you to manage various cameras and video analysis.
Let’s assume that you are an IT manager: if you have to choose the industrial PC to be inserted into a video surveillance system, your choice will definitely fall on a PC…
- Fanless, without fans;
- Racks, which allow you to integrate multiple expansion boards;
- Boxed, which are the most versatile and often support hardware acceleration for video encoding/decoding
- and Edge Computing PCs: used for image processing and advanced video analysis.
Ok, all very correct…
But these are standard models that fit for “standard” choices.
If you need to choose a custom industrial PC… what do you do?
Not everyone on the market offers you the option to customize your industrial PCs.
Most offer you standard industrial PCs, which can offer nothing compared to the usual catalogue of industrial hardware that you see, as soon as you open internet…
But what we did for our client was offer him something… more.
Customer requirement: custom industrial PCs for Workstation
The company that turned to us had always used servers of another brand to be inserted in standard workstations for the realization of video surveillance recording systems…
When they came to us, they asked for a customized solution that would solve a particular need: having machines of a more professional level, Compared to regular workstations – but much less expensive than the servers they were already using…
3 Kimera Rack for cable car video surveillance
And here’s the solution we thought for them: a Kimera Rack industrial PC.
The Kimera Rack model was designed to install a VMS software (Milestone/Genetec/Geutebrück) on top of it.
The industrial PCs built and customized were 3 and used for the video surveillance of a cable car.
Kimera Pro 4.0 with type-C mount and Thunderbolt port for video surveillance
At the beginning of this article we promised to tell you about the importance of Thunderbolt ports and Type-C mount inside PCs, intended for video surveillance installations.
Here you go…
In addition to the 3 already purchased, the customer has chosen to continue to rely on us to purchase another 3 industrial PCs of another model: the Kimera Pro 4.0.
This PC model has two features that are very important for video surveillance systems…
Type-C mount and Thunderbolt port.
Why are they so important for the field of video surveillance?
The Thunderbolt port
If you look closely at the Kimera Pro 4.0 that we delivered to the customer…
You will see that they have up to 4 ports available: this means that, with this model you can connect up to 4 monitors!
Not to mention, that the Thunderbolt port can be turned into anything: you can connect it to a LAN or connect other devices.
Type-C ports
Video surveillance systems generate large amounts of data, especially with the use of high-resolution (4K or higher) cameras.
The Type-C port, with support for standards such as USB 3.1 and USB 3.2 offers transfer speeds of up to 10 Gbps and with Thunderbolt 3/4 up to 40 Gbps.
Another not unimportant element: this Kimera Pro 4.0 that we have made for our customer presents the network card with 2.5 GB, one of the fastest on the market.
This feature can be very useful for connecting the various cameras to each other.
Why did the customer keep choosing Kimera Computers?
If you could choose from an industrial PC supplier that is able to offer you a product customization, so as to make it completely suitable for the application for which that PC will be used…
… And an industrial PC supplier that sells you the usual PCs, all the same, all standardized, which have nothing in excess of the others…
What would you choose?
A supplier that can guarantee ONLY what others offer you, nothing more…
… Or one that can deliver a product made to measure for your company, perfectly created based on the indications you will give?
Having a partner who can make customisable industrial PCs is definitely useful. Very useful. So useful, that our client over the years has continued to choose us…
To come to the present day, where he has purchased a total of 20 industrial PCs from Kimera Computers.
What are the advantages of having a custom industrial PC supplier?
You need an industrial PC to fit into your production environment…
… But the PC you need is for a particular application and you need it to be tailored to your use?
As we have already seen, within the industrial landscape not all PC suppliers are able to offer you a product that is made and customized.
This is because all the industrial hardware you order comes from China and Chinese suppliers don’t mind these small things: what they can offer you is a standard PC, delivered after a month of time, because before they can not provide it.
The reasons for these colossal delays are manifold, but we will talk about them briefly in the next paragraph…
Here we want to focus your attention on the fact that having an industrial PC made in your supplier’s own laboratory (so made in Italy) and customized according to your company’s specifications, is not easy to find.
And that’s exactly what Kimera Computers offers you.
In addition to…
3 years warranty and timely delivery of industrial PCs
You know when we were talking about the fact that it takes at least a month for the usual and common Asian industrial PC suppliers to deliver the industrial PCs you requested?
Here, we were not joking.
In the industrial hardware world, that’s how it works!
All the Asian suppliers you will find in circulation will give you availability of delivery of goods only AFTER having made a stock of products – the same model of products that you have also ordered.
Only after: not before.
This is because they cannot keep a stock of products in the house.
So, you’re warned: if you just ordered an industrial PC model you know that the supplier will need to stock that specific model before you can ship it.
Add to that the fact that delivery may be delayed due to the fact that your PC comes from Asia, so delivery times are obviously longer…
In essence: if you rely on an Asian supplier, you will not be able to see your industrial PC before the two months of time!
With Kimera Computers this problem cannot exist, since we make our industrial PCs directly in our laboratory, in Pressana, in the province of Verona…
… And we ship them to you and deliver directly within a week time!
Try to believe – though, the testimony we have just given you should have made you understand that we are not kidding!
If you want to have more information about our industrial PCs Kimera Computers, or are looking for an industrial computer with specific features but have not found it in the catalog yet… Contact us for a free consultation!
One of our technicians will analyze your request and will be able to indicate the best Kimera industrial PC for your application, or will know how to build the computer with the specifications you need!
Kimera Computers offers you:
- Up to 3 years warranty on all industrial PCs in the catalogue (unlike all other suppliers of industrial hardware, which protect your product for only one year and then, if it suffers a failure, they are – literally – your problems);
- an industrial PC completely made in Italy, manufactured within our Italian laboratory by Italian technicians, who will give you immediate assistance in case there is any problem;
- Timely delivery: we make industrial PCs within 3 days and ship them to you within a week of time! Unlike all other Asian industrial PC suppliers, who only guarantee delivery from one month onwards!
- Continuous assistance, pre and post sales: we have also activated a chat service directly on our site, to which we always respond, 24 hours a day!
Contact us and request a free consultation!
