Ring redesigned its ring stickup cam to support various power options you can opt which one is suitable to meet your home security needs. How these ring stickup cam series are compared with Ezviz and Amcrest outdoor security cameras?
Ring Stickup Series
When folks need an outdoor security camera, generally what comes to mind is ring security camera or arlo before looking for products from other brands such as amcrest or ezviz or other brands that are sold cheaper in the market. Even though the price difference isn’t that big, probably a few tens of buck, but for those who take budget into consideration, looking for a comparison of similar products is a good solution.
Ring introduces various models of home security camera products including Ring camera doorbell, ring spotlight cam, ring floodlight camera, and this article we’ll discuss here ring stickup cam, one of most popular outdoor security cameras in the market. See also comparison between Arlo and Ring floodlight cameras.
What Ring stickup cam does?
Ring stickup cam delivers full HD 1080p camera resolution, supports color night vision with fixed lens and wide 110 degree view angle to cover the entire property.
Full HD
Is 1080p camera resolution sufficient to monitor your property? Of course, the higher the resolution of security camera the more detailed the image will be, even when you need to zoom in to see objects up close. If the coverage of the house property being monitored is not too wide, then the live view without zooming in is sufficient with 1080p resolution, you can still see detailed images without zooming in.
However, if you need a surveillance camera that is capable of covering very wide area and capable of zooming in on distant objects in greater detail, 1080p is not the right one. What you need is a 2k or 4k resolution camera with optical zoom feature to get detailed objects in the distance.
Ring stickup cam is quite small; with a sturdy stand you can place it anywhere either indoor or outdoor. Especially for the battery powered model, there is no need to think about the power cable connection when it has to be placed in a strategic location for security surveillance where it is difficult to pull the power cable.
What about event alerts? Ring offers fantastic motion detection software that sends motion detection events with customized motion detection zones; you can live view locally or remotely via your Smartphone when you are on the go.
As general, ring stickup cam gives you peace of security surveillance camera you can give a try and install it either indoor or outdoor.
Pros
- Indoor or outdoor security camera with Full HD 1080p resolution and super wide angle 130 degree diagonal; 110 degree horizontal and 57 degree vertical
- Color Night vision support with advanced motion detection you can customize and motion activated notifications
- Two way audio with built-in speaker and microphone with noise cancellation
- wireless (802.11 b/g/n) single radio band connection @2.4GHz, dual band for elite series
- Mount everywhere with integrated mounting base/ stand for desktop placement or on the wall or ceiling
- Works with Alexa for voice command
- Free 30-days trial cloud storage, available Ring protect plan
Cons
- No local memory storage for playback the event video footage, you need to subscribe ring protect plan to unlock complete features
Power options
With the redesigned of ring stickup cam, Ring offers four series of either indoor or outdoor security cameras. What makes all these four camera series different? The main difference is the way each of the series receive power. You have various power options including battery power, solar power, plug in or POE.
Table 1 below shows you four series of ring stickup cam, the battery model, the plug-in model, the solar power model and elite series model. You may also find that the elite series is the POE model that comes with the mounting bracket. The other three series doesn’t come with the mounting bracket, you need to purchase separately when you need to mount the camera on the ceiling or on the wall.
Table 1 Ring Stick Up Models
| Ring Stick Up models | Battery | Plug In | Solar Power series | Elite series |
| Quick Release battery pack | Yes | Optional | Yes | N/A |
| Indoor / Outdoor Power Adapter | Optional | No | No | N/A |
| Solar Panel | Optional | No | Yes | N/A |
| powered by an AC adapter to AC outlet | No | Yes | No | N/A |
| POE | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes , comes with PoE Adapter or Indoor / outdoor power adapter |
| Connectivity : 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi connection @ 2.4GHz | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ethernet or 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi connection @ 2.4GHz or 5GHz |
| placed on flat surfaces; optional mounting bracket | Yes | Yes | Yes | Comes with mounting bracket |
All the other specs and features are the same for all ring stickup cam series except the power option, and the elite series comes with POE you can either connect using UTP cable both for power source and data by connecting to POE adapter, or you can use indoor / outdoor power adapter.
For doorbell, you may also like to see comparison between Amcrest doorbell vs Ring doorbell.
Ring Stickup cam vs Ezviz vs Amcrest
Let’s take two other competing products, the Amcrest Ash43 4mp outdoor cameras and most popular Ezviz c3w pro outdoor camera. Which one of these products is best to meet your home security need? You can refer to the following two spec comparison tables to help you get better insight of those products.
Which ring stickup model is to compare? We can take one of them, the plug-in ring stickup cam series which is commonly used.
One of the most popular ezviz cameras is the ezviz c3w pro which is equipped with two spotlights to provide light addition around it at low light condition.
On the other hand, we take one of the new products released by amcrest at a fairly affordable price is the amcrest ash43 which is a wifi camera with 4mp resolution, twice the resolution of outdoor cameras in general including Ring and also this ezviz c3w.
Camera features
Ring and ezviz offer cameras with full HD 1080p @ 30 fps resolution, while amcrest provides twice the resolution of the two competing cameras. Technically a camera with a high resolution is more profitable, especially when you zoom in on your Smartphone with camera app, a 4mp resolution camera is sharper when zoomed in. In terms of resolution, Amcrest with 4mp resolution outperforms the other two products.
Night vision
Ring promises color night vision, only if there is enough ambient light around the camera, if the ambient light is not sufficient it will only provide b/w night vision. Unlike Ring, ezviz c3w pro comes with two spotlights for color night vision. You can setup it to continuously turn on to provide ambient light thus providing color night vision. Or motion detection that triggers the spotlight so that it can provide color night vision.
Amcrest ash43 is just like Ring that requires enough ambient light to render color night vision unless it provides B/W night vision with IR LEDs.
In terms of color night vision, ezviz c3w pro provides the best solution with two bright spotlights to render color night vision.
Storage
When the camera detects motion, typically the camera will record a few seconds of video events and save the video footage into the memory local storage in the form of micro SD card. What if the camera does not have local memory storage? The data is usually stored on the recorder unit (NVR unit) or stored in the cloud.
Ring does not provide local memory on the camera or on the hub station but provides cloud storage services that you can access from anywhere even when you are on the go. In contrast to ezviz and amcrest where both provide local storage memory storage solutions with micro SD cards you can install up to 256GB.
You can read more details with the following two comparison tables below.
Table 2 Ring Stickup cam vs Ezviz
| Camera models | Ring Stickup cam plug in | Ezviz c3w Pro |
| Image sensor | CMOS image sensor | 1/2.7”Progressive Scan CMOS with minimum illumination: 0.01 lux @(F1.6, AGC ON), 0 lux with IR |
| Lens | Fixed wide angle lens | 2.8 mm @F1.6 / 4 mm @F1.6 |
| View angle | 130°diagonal, 110° horizontal, 57° vertical | 2.8mm: 103° horizontal, 119° diagonal 4.0mm: 87° horizontal, 104° diagonal |
| Resolution | 1080p @30 fps | 1920 x 1080 @30 fps with digital WDR supports H.265 |
| Spotlights | N/A | 2x Built-in spotlights |
| Night vision | Color night vision with ambient light | Color night vision with spotlights; B/W night vision is also available up to 98ft |
| Audio | Two way audio with noise cancellation | Two way audio with speaker and microphone |
| Storage | No local memory storage, ring protect plan with cloud storage | Supports Micro SD card up to 256GB |
| Outdoor | Yes, weatherproof | Yes, IP67 dust and water resistant |
| Connectivity | 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi connection @ 2.4GHz | Wired 10/100Mbps Ethernet port; 802.11b/g/n wifi single band 2.4GHz @144Mbps |
| Power | Barrel Plug (indoor/outdoor power supply included) | DC 12v / 1A |
| Event trigger | Advanced Motion Detection with Customizable Motion Zones, send alert notification to your mobile device | AI power person detection |
| Service plan | Ring protect plan, including cloud storage you can access from anywhere | Ezviz cloud service, secured with IOS/IEC 27001 certified security |
| Works with Alexa | Yes | Yes |
| Price (Oct 2021) | $99.99 | $68.99 |
All the three products are featured with smart motion detection by only detecting human (with AI powered motion detection) to reduce false alerts.
Table 3 Ring stickup cam vs Amcrest
| Camera models | Ring Stickup cam plug in | Amcrest ASH43 |
| Image sensor | CMOS image sensor | ½.7 inch CMOS image sensor |
| Lens | Fixed wide angle lens | 2.8mm fixed lens |
| View angle | 130°diagonal, 110° horizontal, 57° vertical | 106 degree horizontal with 16x digital zoom |
| Resolution | 1080p @30 fps | 4MP (2560 x 1440 @30 fps supports H.265 / H.264 |
| Spotlights | N/A | N/A |
| Night vision | Color night vision with ambient light | Night vision with IR LEDs range up to 98ft |
| Audio | Two way audio with noise cancellation | One way audio with built-in Microphone |
| Storage | No local memory storage, ring protect plan with cloud storage | Local memory Micro SD card up to 256GB or Amcrest cloud storage plan |
| Outdoor | Yes, weatherproof | IP67 weatherproof |
| Connectivity | 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi connection @ 2.4GHz | 802.11b/g/n with dual external antennas |
| Power | Barrel Plug (indoor/outdoor power supply included) | Power adapter included |
| Event trigger | Advanced Motion Detection with Customizable Motion Zones, send alert notification to your mobile device | Human motion detection |
| Service plan | Ring protect plan, including cloud storage you can access from anywhere | Amcrest cloud storage plan |
| Works with Alexa | Yes | Yes |
| Price (Oct 2021) | $99.99 | $64.99 |
Amcrest ash43 with double resolution is a good solution for homes, however when you need smart Ring protect plan together with your Ring doorbell Ring stickup cam is a good solution. Click the product’s link below to read more details and shop the products in Amazon (#ads).
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