Design-tool review · Checked July 2026

IPVM Design Calculator pārskats (2026): funkcijas, cenas, alternatīvas

The IPVM Design Calculator costs $199 a year per person and is sold beside a research publication most of the industry already trusts. This is about the design tool only: what you get for the money, where a working integrator hits its edges, and when the money is better spent elsewhere.

Aleksander KubiakFounder · Polish Naval Academy (internal security) · 10y CCTV

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Published May 12, 20267 min read

Kas ir IPVM Design Calculator?

IPVM is the security industry's best-known independent research publication — vendor reviews, vulnerability disclosures, market analysis — and it earned that standing honestly. The Design Calculator is their CCTV layout product, a separate plan at $199 a year per person: browser-based, large camera catalog, DORI per EN 62676-4, BOMs and PDFs out the end.

Two products under one brand is where the confusion starts, and it costs real money. The research goes to the people writing tenders; the design tool goes to the people standing on the roof deciding where the camera bolts on. In most firms those are different desks, and one of them ends up paying for a subscription it opens twice a year. Work out which desk you are before you look at the price.

Tas, ko IPVM dizaina rīks dara labi

• Saistīts ar first-party testēšanas datiem: Catalog entries link back to IPVM's own lab tests, and nobody else in this category has that. If you have ever specified a camera on the strength of an IPVM test report, having the report one click from the model in your plan is worth paying for — we will not pretend otherwise.
• Pārlūkprogrammā pieejams, bez instalēšanas: It runs in a tab on any modern OS, where JVSG still wants a Windows machine and a licence tied to it. On the locked-down corporate laptops a lot of integrators are issued, that is the difference between working this afternoon and waiting on an IT ticket.
• Integrēts ar apmācību un kursiem: IPVM's paid training and certification courses teach the design work in this tool. If your team is going through that curriculum, the tool is the one the coursework assumes, and fighting that is a poor use of anyone's week.

Tas, kur IPVM dizaina rīks ir vājs

• Cena par personu: $199 a year per person, so the bill scales with the crew: three people designing means $597 a year before anyone has drawn a cone. That is the number to take to your accountant, not the headline price. Ours is €50/yr Installer, €100/yr Business for the same design surface.
• ASV datu atrašanās vieta: Hosting is in the United States. On EU government, defence, finance and critical-infrastructure work, the data-residency question now arrives in the questionnaire rather than at the end, and site plans with camera positions on them are exactly the material it is aimed at. If your tenders ask, an EU-hosted tool saves you the explanation.
• Vienas valodas saskarne: English only. The design surface is the part of the toolchain the whole crew touches — the fitter checking a mounting height touches it too, not just the senior engineer — so a single-language UI shows up as slow adoption rather than as a complaint anyone files.
• Gada plāns ar 7 dienu logu: The plan bills $199.00 USD every 12 months automatically and the money-back window is 7 days. Seven days is not a season of design work — if your jobs land in bursts, you are committing to a full year on the strength of one quiet week. There is no free tier to prove the tool on a live job first, which is the part we would push back on hardest.

Kam paredzēts IPVM dizaina rīks

Buy it if you want IPVM's catalog and lab data sitting under the drawing, and if someone on your team already reads their research. Specifiers, tender-writers, larger integrators with a research budget — that is the audience, and for them it is a sound purchase.

If you are a one-van operation or a small crew, $199 per head for the drawing surface is a lot of money for something you can get elsewhere: the same DORI maths, EU hosting, a UI your fitters read, and a free tier you can prove on a real job first. Spend the $199 on the research subscription instead, if that is what you actually wanted.

Bezmaksas alternatīva: CCTVplanner

CCTVplanner ir pārlūka vidē vienkāršojams, ES viesmīļojams CCTV projektēšanas rīks ar pastāvīgu bezmaksas pakāpi (2 projekti, 6 kameras), Installer plāns par €4,17/mēn un Business par €8,33/mēn. Tas ietver tādu pašu DORI matemātiku (EN 62676-4), tādu pašu daudzstāvu topoloģiju, tādu pašu DXF abpusējo apmaiņu : ar 65 000 kameru katalogu un 24 UI valodām, tostarp RTL arābu valodu.

To be plain about the boundary: we do not compete with IPVM's research publication and we would not try. For vendor reviews, vulnerability disclosures and market analysis, IPVM is still the standard and we read it ourselves. What we replace is the drawing surface, at €50 a year.

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