FLIR Raven is purpose-built for FLIR thermal cameras and does it well — within FLIR. Real perimeter projects pair FLIR thermal at the fence with Hikvision or Axis visible-light cameras at the gate. Raven only draws half the system. CCTVplanner draws the whole system: every brand, every wavelength, Johnson Criteria + EN 62676-4 DORI on the same canvas.
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FLIR Raven renders only FLIR thermal hardware — Quasar, FH-Series ID, FB-Series, ITS cameras. Most thermal projects mix FLIR with Hikvision Thermal, Dahua TPC, Axis Q19, Hanwha thermal and others. Raven cannot draw what is not in its catalog.
Real perimeter and ITS deployments combine thermal cameras for detection at distance with visible-light cameras for identification at the gate. Raven covers only the thermal half. Switching to a different tool for the visible cameras splits your design and BOM in two.
Raven handles up to 50 cameras per scene — fine for a single perimeter, restrictive for multi-site or large industrial deployments. CCTVplanner has no per-project camera cap on paid tiers.
Raven runs on FLIR/Teledyne infrastructure (US-based). Customer floor plans, perimeter coordinates and BOMs follow that path. CCTVplanner is Polish frontend + Supabase EU-West — your customer's data never leaves the EU. Cleaner for GDPR, simpler for EU public-sector tenders.
Drop a FLIR Quasar thermal next to a Hikvision DS-2TD2628 thermal next to an Axis Q1942-E thermal — and a Bosch DINION visible-light camera at the same gate. Same canvas, same EN 62676-4 math, same DORI rings. Mixed-vendor thermal plus visible projects work natively.
Place a thermal camera for long-range detection at 250 m, then place a visible-light camera at the choke point for plate or face identification. The DORI overlay shows both — thermal Detect range vs visible Identify range — so you size both halves of the system in one pass.
Switch the floor plan layer to OpenStreetMap aerial. Trace 500 m of fence line, drop perimeter cameras every 80 m, and watch the Detect cone reach across the actual property. Then export a DXF the trenching crew uses for cabling.
Import architect's DXF or aerial image, calibrate scale with two clicks, export DXF for the contractor or branded PDF for the customer. Works with any thermal VMS — FLIR United VMS, Genetec, Milestone, BriefCam.
| CCTVplanner | FLIR Raven | |
|---|---|---|
| Camera catalog | 65,000+ models · 113 brands incl. thermal from FLIR/Hik/Dahua/Axis/Hanwha | FLIR thermal only |
| Visible-light cameras | Yes — same canvas as thermal | Not supported |
| Camera cap per project | Unlimited (paid tiers) | 50 per scene |
| Multi-floor topology | Yes — unlimited floors with cabling | Single scene at a time |
| DXF import/export | Yes — full BLOCK/INSERT/SPLINE/HATCH | Not advertised |
| Languages | 33 (incl. Arabic RTL, Hindi, Vietnamese) | English-primary |
| Hosting | EU (Poland frontend, EU-West backend) | FLIR/Teledyne (US) |
Everything below is in the product today, on the free tier, and none of it needs an install. Open it in a browser and check it against FLIR Raven on a job you already know.
No install and no workstation. Walk the site from any camera point of view, with DORI silhouettes standing at the Detect, Observe, Recognize and Identify distances so the customer sees what the camera sees. Sun and shadow study for the time of day that matters, and one-click 3D PDF export for the people who will never open a design tool.
Every cone is computed from the sensor, resolution and focal length at the mounting height (1 to 20 m) and tilt you set, then clipped by buildings, fences and real ground elevation on satellite imagery. On a flat indoor floor a 2D tool agrees with us. On a sloped yard or a sunken loading dock it does not, and that gap is exactly where the blind spots are.
Racking, containers, concrete blocks, scaffolding, solar panels, trees, and the machinery a live construction site actually parks in the shot: excavators, cranes, concrete mixers, bulldozers, vans and pickups. Each one carries real dimensions and a vertical range, and the field of view clips against it with the shadow drawn on the plan.
Stack ground floor, mezzanine, plant room and roof as separate levels. Draw walls, close rooms and read the floor area back in square metres. Cabling routes between levels, the topology graph carries across them, and each floor exports as its own DXF sheet and PDF page.
Predictive coverage for access points using ITU-R P.2040 wall transmission and a P.1238 margin, drawn as a heatmap over the same plan the cameras sit on. Point-to-point links are checked for line of sight against the buildings and terrain, so the wireless leg of the design fails on screen rather than on site.
51 specified cable types with PoE budget from loop resistance, DC voltage drop, fibre loss budget with splice and connector allowances, coax attenuation per format, speaker line loading and conduit fill. Route length is measured on the drawn route and carries straight into the bill of materials, the cable schedule and the customer offer.
The plan is validated while you draw it: DORI shortfall, blind spots, perimeter gaps, PoE budget and class escalation, cable length and category headroom, conduit bundling, fibre loss, thermal lens and pairing, EMC and environmental class, lightning protection zones, ONVIF profile mixing, NDAA compliance, bandwidth headroom and switch port capacity.
CAD-grade DXF (AutoCAD R2018 / AC1021) on named layers with BLOCK, INSERT, SPLINE, ELLIPSE, HATCH and DIMENSION preserved, inside an ISO 5457 sheet frame with an ISO 7200 title block. Multi-page PDF with bill of materials, cable schedule, equipment list, elevation views, coverage analysis, acceptance test protocol, maintenance schedule and the GDPR Article 35 DPIA worksheet.
CCTVplanner is a general CCTV planner that handles thermal cameras as a class alongside visible-light, fisheye, panoramic, multi-sensor and PTZ. We model thermal-specific properties — IR sensitivity, NETD, lens focal length in mm of effective focal length, Johnson Criteria detection / recognition / identification at thermal wavelengths — for every thermal model in the catalog from every brand. FLIR Raven is purpose-built for FLIR thermal hardware only; CCTVplanner covers FLIR thermal alongside the rest of the system.
Yes. The Johnson Criteria calculator computes Detect (1.5 cycles), Recognize (6) and Identify (12) ranges for any thermal camera based on focal length, sensor pitch, target dimension and atmospheric loss. Use it for perimeter detection sizing or NATO STANAG 4347 references. Works alongside the EN 62676-4 DORI calculator, which is the visible-light equivalent.
Yes. CCTVplanner ships every FLIR thermal model — Quasar Premium, FH-Series ID multispectral, FB-Series, FC-Series and ITS cameras. Sensor pitch, lens focal length range, NETD and IP rating come from FLIR datasheets. A pure-FLIR project on CCTVplanner gives you the same thermal coverage math as Raven, with the option to mix in visible-light cameras when the deployment requires both.
Raven is free because it sells FLIR cameras. The moment your perimeter project requires visible-light cameras alongside thermal, mixed brands at the same gate, multi-floor topology, DXF interchange with the architect, or EU data residency, Raven cannot do the job alone. CCTVplanner stays free for small projects (2 projects, 6 cameras) and unlocks unlimited at €5/mo. Pay €60/year for tool independence and cross-vendor thermal+visible design.
Detect / Recognize / Identify cycles-on-target for thermal.
Visible-light DORI ranges to pair with thermal Detect.
How to mix thermal Detect at the fence with visible Identify at the gate.
Lens-aware angular coverage for any sensor format.
Thermal at the fence, visible at the gate, all on one canvas. Free tier covers 2 projects and 6 cameras. No credit card.
