TP-LINK is one of the first batch of national high-tech enterprises, and its wireless router sales are leading. Similar to other network equipment brands, TP-LINK is now also making moves in the field of security monitoring, launching network cameras, network video recorders and other security supporting hardware, which has a good user reputation.
 
Compared with professional manufacturers such as Hikvision, TP-LINK entered the monitoring product market late, so there is a certain gap in technology accumulation and product professionalism, although it supports network video recorder storage, but it needs to be improved in stability and compatibility, and does not support cloud storage, if the local storage is damaged, it will cause video loss, and it is slightly inferior in practicality.
 
TP-LINK camera models all start with IPC, the first number indicates the series name, and the second number indicates the camera pixels, the larger the number, the higher the pixels, the higher the supported shooting resolution, such as IPC42 represents the 4 series of 2 million pixel cameras.
 
TP-LINK PTZ TL-IPC42A-4 is its flagship surveillance product, support motion detection video, timing video recording and a variety of video modes, compared with only support 24 hours of video products, more save memory card space, retain more useful video clips, 179 yuan in the PTZ machine price is not high.
 
TL-IPC42EW-4 has distinctive features in the night vision function, in addition to the infrared light night vision function, it also supports white light at night, the user can set the white light to be always on or light up when an abnormal situation occurs, assist in shooting a clear color picture, the price is 199 yuan. The card machine TL-IPC12A is priced at 169 yuan, supports mobile power supply, and has a certain degree of portability, but its shooting effect is similar to the performance of the cheaper night vision version of the small ant, and the cost performance is average.