Zebion ushers-in a potent new Genre in the world of CCTV

That’s exactly what Zebion’s latest release, a Fish-Eye camera called Celestial, purports to do. The coming of Celestial is especially noteworthy since customers can potentially replace four corner-mounted CCTV camera’s, with just one Fish Eye Lens camera mounted in the center of the surveillance area.

This could be the middle of a large hall, or room, or warehouse, or office, or mall, or just about any large space … and that too without any loss in coverage. In the not too distant future you may find Fish Eye IP camera’s replacing multiple standard cameras. It just make better commercial sense.

Celestial’s special Lens provides incredible wide angle coverage. simply place it on a wall for a panoramic 180° view of a room, or place it on a ceiling for a full 360° view without blind spots. By their very nature Fish Eye Lenses are small, ultra-wide, and show a distorted, spherical view of the world.

The most evident photos online show curved perspectives, or sometimes, curved outer corners of the photo. This distortion is by choice however, and the perspective can easily be corrected (or straightened) to create a wide panoramic images. Indeed the most striking feature of Celestial is its Ultra wide angle lens capable of providing Panoramic Perspectives. Some photographers and surveillance experts refer to this as Hemispherical images. In addition you can use advanced electronic-PTZ features seen through usually a Quad perspective, so you can surveil different parts of a large area simultaneously. See Image 1.

The software that comes along with Celestial is capable of rending many types of views and perspectives. Two, three or more people can install the software application and perform E-PTZ features simultaneously, off the same camera. Some people may accidently imagine that the camera has multiple lenses – but this is an error.

There is just one lens and its fixed in nature. The simultaneous operations are possible by the miracles of modern software. So while one Security officer is zooming into an individual, another can fully zoom our, and another can perform a preset 360 degree panning operation – all happening concurrently.

Best of all being a true IP system the celestial can be viewed from anywhere in the world at real time. That too completely void of blind spots, which has been the chief nemesis of the surveillance engineer since this field gained prominence, and the only drawback in CCTV itself. It looks that the limitation of blind spots has finally been solved by a unique design (Circular dome), a unique mounting location (center of the room), a unique lens (Ultra wide angle fish eye), and a unique tool (advanced software performing mapping functions).

Celestial also has access point mode (AP Mode) through which you can surveil within a 10 meter radius without hooking up to the internet.