The XHC3240C-ABF delivers full-color starlight imaging to 7,600 meters detection with Auto Back Focus, built for border, maritime, and infrastructure perimeter surveillance.
Procurement offices running long-perimeter border and coastal surveillance tenders have spent the past several cycles pushing detection range requirements upward, and full-color night imaging has increasingly been written into the specification alongside range rather than treated as a nice-to-have layered on top of it. That shift toward color-first tendering is what the XHC3240C-ABF was designed to satisfy. Built around a large-format CMOS sensor and multi-frame low-noise processing, the camera holds full-color imaging under dim starlight without any auxiliary illumination, at a detection range that reaches 7,600 meters.
Range and Focus Architecture
The 240mm equivalent F1.7 lens on the XHC3240C-ABF pushes recognition-scale imagery to roughly 1,900 meters and identification-scale imagery to around 1,180 meters, figures established under NVESD methodology against a 1.7 by 0.5 meter human target. Auto Back Focus handles the remote refocusing that a 240mm optic demands after mounting on a tower or hilltop position, sparing installation teams a return visit to a site that may only be reachable by vehicle track or boat.
Field Applications Along Extended Perimeters
Border corridors, coastal approach lanes, and critical infrastructure perimeters share a common operational problem, which is that early warning has to cover the distance between a fixed sensor and a manned response team. At 7,600 meters detection and AI body detection confirmed beyond 370 meters, the XHC3240C-ABF gives a single fixed position enough standoff to trigger a response well before a contact reaches sensitive terrain. Onboard AI guarding modes covering global, cross-border, and regional alerting reduce the analytics workload that would otherwise sit with a separate VMS rule engine, and ONVIF, RTSP, and PELCO support means the camera drops into most existing command center software without custom driver work.
Operational Outlook
Rated from minus 40 to plus 70 degrees Celsius and running on 12V or optional PoE, the XHC3240C-ABF is built for unattended operation at remote sites where a service call is expensive and infrequent. As tenders continue moving color-capable long-range detection from optional to mandatory, cameras that hold that performance without an infrared illuminator are likely to become the default choice for outer-layer perimeter positions rather than a premium alternative to monochrome or thermal systems.