Hints For Mounting

Simple And Flexible Mounting

The Q24M, being an overview camera, is primarily designed for installation on walls or ceilings. The supplied hemispheric L11 180° lens captures the entire room, practically from wall to wall and from the floor to the ceiling.

Multiple Installation Options

MOBOTIX cameras can be used under almost all weather and temperature conditions
and they also offer suitable installation materials from a wide range of accessories for any conceivable application and installation scenario.

The Q24M is available in SECURE and BASIC models, which come with different features. Both models can also be ordered with an L22 Super Wide-Angle lens with a horizontal image angle of 90°. It is also possible to install the camera without any special accessories.

The In-Ceiling Set offers the most stylish installation option for the Q24M and can also be used to mount the camera on a wall. When properly installed, the only visible component is a particularly sleek and discreet hemispheric camera, while most of the remaining components are concealed inside the ceiling.

Network Connection And PoE Power Supply

In the Q24M, the same network cable is used for both the network connection and the PoE power supply. The pre-installed patch cable attached to the camera is connected with the (Cat. 5) on-site network cable. The PoE current is simply fed into the network cable using a PoE switch or the convenient MOBOTIX NPA-PoE set.

Wall-Mounted

To make optimal use of the high-resolution 180° panorama functionality of the Q24M, the camera must be mounted on an internal or external wall. The entire hemisphere of the room directly in front of the camera is then effectively monitored, from the wall on the left of the camera to the wall on the right. Corresponding fine-tuning in the user interface software allows the displayed panorama image to be adjusted to different practical applications
(see section 3.3).

The camera should preferably be mounted in the middle of the room to be monitored using the 10° On-Wall Set.

Original image from the camera shown above using the 10° On-Wall Set (Panorama Focus View)

Selecting An Appropriate Camera Position

The Q24M is primarily suited to providing an excellent overview, and less suitable for more exact details. For active operation, the camera should be mounted at a (out of direct reach) height ranging from 2.5 to 3.5 m. People, for example, may be identified very well at distances of up to 1.5 m, and with sufficient detail at up to 3 m. Objects can be recognized even at distances of 5 m and more from the camera. During installation, ensure that the camera is focused on the most important areas of the room as directly as possible, in order to provide the desired level of detail recognition. For wall installation, use of the 10° On-Wall Set is ideal in many cases.

Recommendation for wall mounting: Camera in the middle of the wall

Wall Installation With The 10° On-Wall Set For Image Optimization

An on-wall set, available as an accessory in 0° and 10° inclinations, may also be used for installation. While the 0° set primarily offers easier installation and more storage space for cables and add-on modules (WLAN, connectors, etc.), the 10° set may also increase the image quality in certain cases. In particular for wall installations which must be carried out at greater heights for technical or other reasons (over doors, windows, etc.,) adding a slight tilt to the camera, and thus also the lens, will return better results, as the center of the lens is then focused more directly on the center of activity in the room (optimal utilization of lens capabilities).

Optimized image quality through wall installation with On-Wall Set 10°

Wall Mounting Over A Wall Outlet

Professional wall or ceiling installation of a Q24M is generally possible without accessories. However, due to elevation of the rear casing of the camera caused by connections and holders, a wall outlet should be installed prior to camera installation (see drilling template Q24M). This provides perfect protection to the cabling, ensuring that it cannot be seen or damaged from outside.

Ceiling-Mounted

Discreet ceiling installation using the In-Ceiling Set

Thanks to its hemispherical lens, a single Q24M can monitor an entire room right into each of the four corners (360° Panorama View). The camera’s should ideally be positioned on the ceiling in the center of the room. Due to its inherent physical and optical properties, the precision of the lens decreases as the distance from the lens grows. This means that the maximum usable image area varies greatly depending on the intended purpose of the camera. Rooms with a square floor area of up to approx. 40 m² in general allow recognizing details even at the borders of the full image. If you would only like to know if persons enter a room, or to monitor specific objects, rooms of up to 100 m² floor area can be monitored using a single Q24M.

The image quality (precision) diminishes as the distance of an object to the camera focus point increases: 1 = very good, 2 = good, 3 = satisfactory

Outdoors, the Q24M is usually mounted on a building wall, corner or pole instead of the ceiling. For this situation, we recommend the use of the practical wall mount from the range of accessory products or an extension.

Non-Square Rooms

When viewing a 360° (full) image in the browser, you will notice that the top and bottom of the image is not fully visible, i.e. some image information has been clipped. This is not a fault of the camera, but intended behavior that aims at achieving the best possible utilization
of the image sensor by the camera software. Bearing this in mind, it is advisable to install the Q24M in rectangular room ceilings so that the arrow marked OBEN / TOP points towards one of the longer walls of the room as shown in the figure.

Original full image from the Q24M (ceiling installation in a rectangular room)