I designed and am in the process of implementing one of the larger MV rollouts (perhaps the largest K-12 deployment today). We are planning to implement MV district wide which will cover over 25 sites. Generally we are extremely pleased with the cameras. The setup is dead simple and the management overhead is very low. We use motion based retention on 100% of the cameras and find this gives us a great balance of retention (generally 3-4 weeks) while still allowing us to run the highest quality settings (including on the MV12 with 1080p @ high quality 3138kbps at 20fps). If you are buying cameras today, there is zero reason to use the MV21 for indoor deployments. We have standardized on the MV12W but the MV12N is a good option for specific deployments. We don't heavily utilize the analytics today as it's not very relevant in K-12 currently, but it's clear that this will be very powerful in the future. We're excited to see what comes from Meraki in terms of object detection with alerting (watching a door and alerting when opened/closed). Where does the solution struggle at scale? Managing Dashboard access for large numbers of users across multiple networks is really tedious and results in significant duplicate work. We're hoping to see SAML integration soon or at least group based management to cut down on the amount of duplicate work when deploying new networks or updating someone's access. But @Adam is right - there is a lot of flexibility in the camera-only admin roles today. The mobile app is also very frustrating to use when dealing with more than a handful of MV's. It's slow to access cameras, you can't sort the camera list well and generally provides a subpar experience for users who only need MV access. Verkada provides a significantly better mobile app experience today. The cameras use HLS for streaming which means there is a 5ish second delay on all streams. In many implementations this is not an issue, but keep this in mind as it may be a problem in specific deployments like when you use an MV as a door monitor with a remote unlock feature.
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