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The Equipment We Actually Install

Dahua Cameras
& Recorders

This is the gear we actually put up under Perth eaves and wire back to the cupboard, not a catalogue of everything Dahua makes. Every camera here can give you colour after dark, not just infrared, and every recorder can tell a person from a passing car. Licensed under EC12377 / SA54405.

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Why This Range

Colour Where It Counts, After Dark

A black-and-white infrared image tells you somebody was there. A colour image tells you they were wearing a red jacket and left in a white ute. That difference is what decides whether footage is worth anything to you or to the police, so every camera on this page can give you colour after dark, either by switching on a warm white light when it detects movement or by using whatever ambient light is around.

How the light behaves is your call. Set the way we normally leave them, these cameras sit in infrared and bring the warm light up only when something is detected. You get colour where it counts without lighting the place up from dusk to dawn. If you would rather the light stayed on all night, it can be set that way instead.

Colour When It Matters

A warm white light comes up the moment something moves, so the footage of the event itself is in colour rather than grey.

Knows People From Cars

SMD 4.0 classifies what triggered the alert, so a cat, a moth or a tree in the wind doesn't reach your phone.

Cameras That React

The deterrent models answer an intrusion with red and blue strobes, a siren and a voice warning, not just a recording.

Search In Seconds

AcuPick and Quick Pick let you search recorded footage for a person or a vehicle instead of scrubbing through hours of it.

Datasheets, Not Promises

Every camera and recorder here links Dahua's own datasheet. Check a number yourself rather than taking our word for it, and hold any other quote to the same test.

Set Up On Your Phone

Live view and playback through the DMSS app on iPhone or Android, configured and tested before we leave. With an Ajax alarm, your cameras sit alongside your alarm status.

Cameras

What Goes On The Wall

Five cameras cover almost everything we are asked for. The first is the everyday workhorse and the second is the same camera in 4K; the next two add active deterrence, and the 8MP of that pair adds more detail at distance; the last one trades reach for width.

Dahua IPC-HDW3667EM-S-IL-ANZ 6MP Smart Dual Light eyeball camera

Our Standard Camera

6MP Smart Dual Light Turret

Dahua IPC-HDW3667EM-S-IL-ANZ

The camera that goes on most jobs. Colour footage at the moment something triggers it, alerts that tell a person from a passing car or a pet, and a weatherproof housing built for Perth sun and Perth dust. It records and it alerts. It doesn't talk back or sound a siren; the two models below do that. It is one of the cameras in our installed CCTV packages.

6MP Colour at night AI detection IP67
  • Resolution6MP, 3288 × 1850 at 25/30 fps
  • Lens2.8mm (110° wide) or 3.6mm (86°, longer reach)
  • Night visionSmart Dual Light, infrared and warm white, both to 30m
  • Face readable toAbout 10m; recognisable to about 20m (3.6mm lens)
  • Smart detectionSMD 4.0, AcuPick search, intrusion and tripwire
  • AudioMicrophone only: records sound, no talk-back
  • PowerSingle network cable (PoE) or 12V DC
IPC-HDW3667EM-S-IL-ANZ datasheet (PDF, 7.4MB)
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Dahua IPC-HDW3867EM-S-IL-ANZ 8MP 4K Smart Dual Light eyeball camera

4K Upgrade

8MP 4K Smart Dual Light Turret

Dahua IPC-HDW3867EM-S-IL-ANZ

The 6MP Smart Dual Light with an 8MP readout instead. Same housing, same 2.8mm and 3.6mm lens options, same F1.4, same infrared and warm white lights to 30m. What you gain is 3840 × 2160 to zoom into when you go back through the recording. What you give up is a little low-light sensitivity: it works off the same size sensor, so the pixels are smaller and it needs slightly more light to hold a picture. It is the $90 a camera upgrade on our standard packages.

8MP / 4K Colour at night AI detection IP67
  • Resolution8MP, 3840 × 2160 (4K) at 25/30 fps, 1/2.7" sensor
  • Lens2.8mm (110° wide) or 3.6mm (86°, longer reach), F1.4
  • Night visionSmart Dual Light, infrared and warm white, both to 30m
  • Low light0.0007 lux in black and white; the 6MP above manages 0.0005 lux
  • Face readable toAbout 10m; recognisable to about 20m (3.6mm lens)
  • Smart detectionSMD 4.0, AcuPick search, intrusion and tripwire
  • AudioMicrophone only, records sound, no talk-back
  • PowerSingle network cable (PoE) or 12V DC
IPC-HDW3867EM-S-IL-ANZ datasheet (PDF, 3.2MB)
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Dahua IPC-HDW3649H-AS-PV-PRO-ANZ 6MP active deterrence eyeball camera with red and blue strobes

Active Deterrence

6MP Deterrent Camera

Dahua IPC-HDW3649H-AS-PV-PRO-ANZ

A camera that does something about it. It switches on a warm white light when it detects someone, so you get full-colour footage instead of black and white, and then adds a siren, flashing red and blue lights, and a speaker you can talk through from your phone. Its larger sensor and wider aperture also make it clearly better than the standard camera in poor light, before any of the lights come on. It is one of the cameras in our installed CCTV packages.

It is also the better of the two PRO cameras after dark. Spreading 6 megapixels across the same sensor as the 8MP model gives each pixel more light to work with, which is why this is the one we specify most often, not the higher-resolution one. What decides night footage, and what megapixels do not →

6MP Siren + strobes Two-way talk Face detection
  • Resolution6MP, 3288 × 1850 at 25/30 fps, 1/1.8" sensor
  • Lens2.8mm (109°) or 3.6mm (93°), F1.0
  • Night visionWizColor: twin multi-core infrared and warm light, both to 30m
  • Face readable toAbout 7–9m; recognisable to 14–17m by lens
  • DeterrenceRed and blue strobes, 110dB siren, built-in or custom voice warnings
  • AudioTwin microphones and speaker: full two-way talk
  • Smart detectionSMD 4.0, AcuPick, intrusion and tripwire, loitering and stay detection, face detection
  • BuildMetal housing, IP67, rated −40°C to +60°C
IPC-HDW3649H-AS-PV-PRO-ANZ datasheet (PDF, 0.6MB)
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Dahua TiOC PRO active deterrence eyeball camera, lens and dual warm lights in close-up

Most Detail

8MP 4K Deterrent Camera

Dahua IPC-HDW3849H-AS-PV-PRO-ANZ

The same camera as the one beside it: same features, same housing, same 1/1.8" sensor, but 4K instead of 6MP. The extra resolution is not about a sharper picture on your phone; it is about how far away a face or a number plate is still readable when you zoom into the recording afterwards. Worth it over a long driveway, a yard, or a car park approach, and not worth much up close. It is the $90 a camera upgrade on our TiOC PRO packages.

8MP / 4K Siren + strobes Two-way talk Face detection
  • Resolution8MP, 3840 × 2160 (4K) at 25/30 fps, 1/1.8" sensor
  • Lens2.8mm (109°) or 3.6mm (93°), F1.0
  • Night visionWizColor: twin multi-core infrared and warm light, both to 30m
  • Face readable toAbout 8–10m; recognisable to 16–20m by lens
  • DeterrenceRed and blue strobes, 110dB siren, built-in or custom voice warnings
  • AudioTwin microphones and speaker: full two-way talk
  • Smart detectionSMD 4.0, AcuPick, intrusion and tripwire, loitering and stay detection, face detection
  • BuildMetal housing, IP67, rated −40°C to +60°C
IPC-HDW3849H-AS-PV-PRO-ANZ datasheet (PDF, 0.6MB)
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Dahua IPC-PDW31259-A180-AS-PV-ANZ-S2 12MP dual-lens 180 degree panoramic camera

One Camera, 180°

12MP Panoramic Duo

Dahua IPC-PDW31259-A180-AS-PV-ANZ-S2

Two lenses stitched into one wide image covering a full 180°: a building frontage, a driveway and the gate beside it, or a car park, on a single camera and a single cable where you would otherwise mount two. Same colour-on-detection night vision and active deterrence as the two deterrent cameras.

Mount it close to what it watches. The trade for that width is reach: it identifies a face at about 6m and recognises a person at about 12m, against 9–10m and 17–20m for the deterrent cameras above. It is a wide camera, not a long one.

12MP 180° view Siren + strobes Two-way talk
  • Resolution12MP, 5000 × 2500 at 20 fps, two 6MP sensors
  • Field of view180° horizontal, 78° vertical, twin 2.8mm lenses
  • Night visionFour illuminators, infrared and warm light, to 30m
  • Face readable toAbout 6m; recognisable to about 12m
  • DeterrenceRed and blue strobes, 110dB siren, built-in or custom voice warnings
  • AudioTwin microphones and speaker: full two-way talk
  • Smart detectionSMD 4.0, AcuPick, intrusion and tripwire, loitering and stay detection, face detection, auto-zoom onto the target
  • PowerPoE+ network cable or 12V DC
  • BuildMetal housing, IP67, rated −40°C to +60°C
IPC-PDW31259-A180-AS-PV-ANZ-S2 datasheet (PDF, 2.7MB)
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These are the ones we fit most often, not the limit of what we can supply. Dahua's range goes much further: longer-range models, higher-resolution sensors, different housings and specialist types, and recorders beyond the three below. If your site needs something that isn't on this page, ask and we will quote it.

Side By Side

Which Camera, And Why

The numbers that actually change the decision. “Recognise a person” is the distance at which you could pick out someone you know; “identify a face” is the shorter distance at which a stranger's face is usable to identify them. Both come from Dahua's published figures for the longer lens option where there is a choice.

  Standard 6MP Deterrent 6MP Deterrent 8MP Panoramic 12MP
Resolution6MP6MP8MP (4K)12MP stitched
View86–110°93–109°93–109°180°
Recognise a person~20m~17m~20m~12m
Identify a face~10m~9m~10m~6m
Colour at nightYesYesYesYes
Siren & strobesNoYesYesYes
Talk through the cameraNoYesYesYes
Face detectionNoYesYesYes
Best forGeneral coverage on a normal blockThe approach a stranger would actually takeDriveways, yards, anywhere you'll zoom in laterFrontages and car parks, mounted close

Distances are Dahua's published DORI figures. They describe image detail at distance, not how far the smart detection reaches.

Recorders

What Goes In The Cupboard

All three plug the cameras straight in. The camera ports are built into the recorder, so there is no separate network switch to buy, power or find room for. All three record up to 16MP per camera, output 4K to a TV or monitor, and do the smart searching on board.

Dahua DHI-NVR4104HS-P-AI/ANZ four channel network video recorder

Up To 4 Cameras

4-Channel Recorder

Dahua DHI-NVR4104HS-P-AI/ANZ

The recorder for a small system, like a typical house with the front, back and both sides covered. Four camera ports built in, 4K out to a screen, and smart search that finds the people or vehicles in your footage in seconds rather than making you scrub through hours of it.

4 channels 4 camera ports 4K output
  • CamerasUp to 4, each up to 16MP
  • Camera ports4 built in, powered over the same cable
  • Video throughput80 Mbps, comfortable for four 6MP cameras
  • Display4K HDMI plus VGA
  • Smart searchSMD Plus on 4 channels, Quick Pick, perimeter protection, face recognition
  • StorageOne drive bay, up to 16TB, sized to how far back you want to look
  • Phone accessDahua DMSS app, iOS and Android
DHI-NVR4104HS-P-AI/ANZ datasheet (PDF, 0.6MB)
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Dahua DHI-NVR4108HS-8P-AI/ANZ eight channel network video recorder

Up To 8 Cameras

8-Channel Recorder

Dahua DHI-NVR4108HS-8P-AI/ANZ

Twice the cameras in the same compact box. This is the one that suits a full house perimeter including the shed and the side gates, or a small shop or office. It carries three times the video throughput of the 4-channel, so there is headroom to run 8MP cameras at full quality.

8 channels 8 camera ports 4K output
  • CamerasUp to 8, each up to 16MP
  • Camera ports8 built in, powered over the same cable
  • Video throughput256 Mbps (180 Mbps with the smart detection running)
  • Display4K HDMI plus VGA
  • Smart searchSMD Plus on 4 channels, Quick Pick, perimeter protection, face recognition
  • StorageOne drive bay, up to 20TB, sized to your retention
  • SuitsLarger homes, shops, offices, small warehouses
DHI-NVR4108HS-8P-AI/ANZ datasheet (PDF, 2.5MB)
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Dahua DHI-NVR4216-16P-AI/ANZ 16 channel network video recorder

Up To 16 Cameras

16-Channel Recorder

Dahua DHI-NVR4216-16P-AI/ANZ

For bigger sites: warehouses, multi-building premises, anywhere the camera count runs past eight. Sixteen camera ports built in, and two drive bays rather than one, so it can hold roughly twice the footage of the recorders above before it starts writing over the oldest.

16 channels 16 camera ports 2 drive bays
  • CamerasUp to 16, each up to 16MP
  • Camera ports16 built in, powered over the same cable
  • Video throughput256 Mbps (180 Mbps with the smart detection running)
  • Display4K HDMI plus VGA
  • Smart searchSMD Plus on 4 channels, Quick Pick, perimeter protection, face recognition
  • StorageTwo drive bays, up to 20TB each, sized to your retention
  • SuitsWarehouses, commercial premises, multi-camera sites
DHI-NVR4216-16P-AI/ANZ datasheet (PDF, 2.3MB)
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Common Questions

Choosing Between Them

Why do all the Dahua cameras on this page have colour night vision?

Because colour is what makes footage useful. A black-and-white infrared image tells you someone was there. A colour image tells you they were wearing a red jacket and got into a white ute. Every camera on this page can give you colour after dark, either by switching on a warm white light or by using what ambient light there is. By default they sit in infrared the rest of the time, so the light is only on when something is actually happening. If you'd rather it stayed on all night, it can be set that way.

Do I need the 8MP camera, or is 6MP enough?

For most homes 6MP is enough. The two deterrent cameras are otherwise the same camera: same housing, same siren and strobes, same two-way audio, same smart detection including face detection. Resolution is the only thing that separates them, and it only matters over distance: the 8MP recognises a person out to about 20 metres and gives a face usable for identification to about 10 metres, against roughly 17 and 9 metres for the 6MP. Within about 10 metres of the camera the extra resolution buys you very little, and the 6MP is actually the better performer after dark, because the same sensor is shared between fewer, larger pixels. Over a long driveway, a yard or a car park approach, the 8MP is worth it. The best camera for night vision, explained →

What is the difference between the standard camera and the deterrent ones?

The standard camera records. The deterrent models also react, with red and blue strobes, a siren, and a speaker you can talk through from your phone. The standard camera has a microphone but no speaker, so it cannot do two-way talk or a voice warning. A common approach is deterrent cameras on the points where someone would actually approach the property, and standard cameras everywhere else.

How many cameras can one recorder take?

Four, eight or sixteen, depending on the model, and all three have the camera ports built in, so there is no separate network switch to buy or find space for. Channel count is not the only limit though. The 4-channel recorder handles 80 Mbps of video in total, which is comfortable for four 6MP cameras but starts to crowd if all four are 8MP running at high quality. We size the recorder to the cameras rather than to the count alone.

What size hard drive do I need?

It depends on how many cameras you have, what resolution they record at, and how far back you want to be able to look. Two to four weeks of footage is what most people ask for. We work the size out from your actual camera list rather than fitting a standard drive and hoping. The 16-channel recorder takes two drives rather than one, which is the option to reach for when you want to keep footage a long time.

Am I limited to the models on this page?

No. These are the ones we fit most often, chosen because they suit the majority of Perth homes and small commercial sites. Dahua's catalogue is much larger, and we can supply and install from the rest of it: longer-range cameras, higher-resolution sensors, different housings, larger recorders. Tell us what the site needs and we will quote the right thing for it rather than bending one of these four to fit.

Can I see the cameras on my phone?

Yes. All of these work with Dahua's DMSS app for live view and playback on iOS and Android, and we set that up and test it on your phone before we leave. If you also have an Ajax alarm, the cameras can be viewed alongside your alarm status in the Ajax app.

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