“We Are Costly But With Less Maintenance”

Abhishek Kumar, Regional Director, South Asia, Oncam talks with PC Quest about his surveillance products and its differentiators from competition

- Jyoti Bhagat

Can you give us an overview about Oncam? What would differentiate Oncam from other surveillance vendors? 

Oncam is part of a global multinational company with our offices spread across the globe. Our headquarter is in London. The manufacturing setup is in Europe as well as in Thailand. Yes we manufacture in the UK.

Generally if you see at most of the cameras they are 2D cameras so they capture 2D image and it plenty of blind spots. Camera starts capturing around 1 and a half meters from the camera while in our case there is no blind spot so if you are standing right immediately below the camera, it will capture you then also. It captures the full 360 degree. Second thing is that this 360 degree view comes from a 3D revolver. It comes as a 3D image in an oval shape. So we have patents to the orbit, how we will convert that oval shape image to a normal 2D image, so that is our specialty.

So that would also translate into a more expensive device compared to your competitors. How do you reconcile against that? 

If you compare camera to camera then we are costly but if you see the usability of 360 degree, a 360 degree camera replaces probably 3 or 4 cameras. So if you talk of a store for example, probably one or two cameras 360 will cover the entire area while if you go for narrow field of few cameras, probably you will need 7-8 cameras. So the total cost of ownership is less. So the cameras are less and the usability is more.