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Cisco Meraki MV

Score8.8 out of 10

52 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cisco Meraki MV?

Cisco Meraki Smart Cameras ( MV) are presented by the vendor as simple to deploy, configure, and manage; they state MV provides reliable security and valuable business insights to organizations of any scale.

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Who Buys & Uses Cisco Meraki MV

Pros

  • Straightforward "plug and play" deployment process
  • Intuitive and centralized management via Meraki Dashboard
  • Robust video quality and clarity for streaming and recording

Cons

  • High cost structure and restrictive licensing model
  • Meraki Dashboard can be confusing for camera addition and troubleshooting
  • Limited camera functionality, specifically pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) range and remote lens adjustment

Sales

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Offer this Cisco Meraki MV product in our city departments and as well as businesses

Pros

  • reports when cameras is down
  • the application is friendly

Cons

  • Pricing
  • deployment of newer models
  • focused on smaller businesses

Return on Investment

  • Negative as pricing has hurt larger deployments
  • no ptz option

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points

Other Software Used

Cisco Meraki MX, Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points

Great Product Small Critiques.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it around our buildings, as well as train on the product. It is nice to have it all in one with our network infrastructure

Pros

  • Remote access
  • Motion detection
  • Ease of deployment

Cons

  • Local access needs to be better, currently there is significant delay
  • Have issues with video walls often blanking out
  • Setup per user access a little easier with external directories (hear this a lot with my customers I teach)

Return on Investment

  • Being a training partner we see many customers utilizing it
  • We have

Other Software Used

Cisco Meraki Dashboard, Cisco Meraki MX, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

it works

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Cisco Meraki MV for access for customers

Pros

  • o issue

Cons

  • In my opinion, there is room for improvement in Cisco Meraki MV with more visibility

Return on Investment

  • Cisco Meraki MV has no impact on our organization's overall business objectives

Alternatives Considered

360 Photo Contest

Safer Environment

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Monitoring rooms for student safety and any potential cheating happening during test days.

Pros

  • tracking movement
  • video wall
  • time-stamping areas of interest

Cons

  • combining platforms which is coming with cloud control
  • archiving video with clarity

Return on Investment

  • 360 cams improve visibility on movement throughout the building
  • 360 cams have given data to how rooms are used

Other Software Used

Webex App, Cisco Meraki Dashboard

Cisco Meraki MV brings its excellence to Camera space

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have leveraged Cisco Meraki MV cameras as a quality control measure to monitor sales staff to ensure that company best practices are being followed. With the design of the cameras, and to manage permissions with the Cisco Meraki MV dashboard allows us to delegate access ensure camera access is only given to appropriate staff members.

Pros

  • Quality video streaming
  • Excellent dashboards with Cisco Meraki MV Vision
  • Permissions assigned w/ SAML make access a breeze

Cons

  • There is a ceiling of how many cameras you can assign to an organization. Not provided up front.
  • Audio can be hit/miss
  • Cadillac grade product has Cadillac grade price + licensing

Return on Investment

  • Scalable solution for new locations
  • Easy permissions
  • Hard limit on devices was never disclosed

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Meraki MX, Cisco Meraki MS, Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points and Cisco Meraki MT

Other Software Used

Cisco Meraki Dashboard, Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points, Cisco Meraki MT