AOV30GH: What the Model Code Means, and How to Source the Camera Behind It

What "AOV30GH" actually is

"AOV30GH" is not a standardised part number and no single factory owns it. It is a supplier-side model string for an AOV (Always-On Video) solar 4G security camera — the kind of code that circulates through marketplace listings, trading-company datasheets and reseller spreadsheets without any public registry behind it. The meaningful part is AOV, an industry-generic term: the camera records continuously, 24 hours a day, at low standby power using AI scene analysis, instead of sleeping until a PIR sensor wakes it. The digits and letters after it are whatever that particular vendor assigned, and two suppliers can ship materially different hardware under near-identical strings.

For a procurement buyer, that has one practical consequence: treat a code like AOV30GH as a spec class, not a part number. Ask for six figures in writing — sensor resolution, battery capacity in mAh, solar panel wattage, storage ceiling, ingress rating and lens count — and compare quotes on those lines rather than on the model string. SolaGuard's equivalent of that class is 49 AOV SKUs in four series, all 2K, all IP66, manufactured by Shenzhen Leksell (TÜV Rheinland certified, established 2012, with CE, FCC and RoHS on file), with wholesale prices quoted per order.

Decoding any AOV model code before you quote it

When a buyer forwards us a code we have never seen, the reconciliation always comes down to the same table. Fill it in for every supplier in your shortlist and the comparison stops being a guessing game.

The entry that catches importers out most often is the battery-to-panel pairing. A large cell behind a small panel looks impressive on a datasheet and underperforms in the field, because the panel never returns enough charge during short winter or monsoon days to refill it. Our 20000mAh series is paired with a 15W panel for exactly this reason; the 8000mAh series runs an 8W panel. Ask any supplier to state both numbers together, and be sceptical of a battery figure quoted without its panel.

Why AOV, and why it changes your warranty exposure

PIR-triggered cameras are cheaper to build and easier to market on runtime, because they spend most of the day asleep. They also fail in three ways that generate returns:

• Slow movement. A person walking deliberately along a fence line, or livestock drifting across a paddock, frequently fails to produce the sharp thermal delta a PIR sensor needs.
• Out-of-zone events. Anything happening outside the sensor's detection cone is simply not recorded. There is no footage to review later, because nothing triggered.
• Wake-up latency. By the time the sensor fires and the camera starts encoding, the first seconds — usually the ones containing the face or the plate — are already gone.

AOV removes all three by never stopping recording. The trade-off is power, which is why AI scene analysis matters: the camera runs a low-power continuous capture and reserves full-rate encoding and upload for scenes the model judges to contain activity. For a distributor, the commercial argument is simple. Your end customer bought a camera to have footage of an incident. A PIR unit that missed the incident is an RMA, a refund conversation and a lost reorder, regardless of what the spec sheet promised about standby days.

The four AOV series, with exact counts and prices

These are the only AOV models we build. Counts and price ranges are exhaustive as of this catalogue revision.

Three reference SKUs buyers most often sample first:

• SG-C41G-10T66-V1. Single lens, 2K, 8000mAh, 8W, IP66. The volume entry point where the job is a single fixed view.
• SG-D42G-10F66-V1. Dual lens, 2K, 8000mAh, 8W, IP66. Wide plus detail view without moving to the larger battery tier.
• SG-D42G-15F66-V1. Dual lens, 2K, 20000mAh, 15W, IP66. The specification for sites with genuinely poor sun exposure or long overcast stretches.

The full AOV range sits inside a 150-SKU catalogue, so an AOV line can be quoted alongside lower-cost non-AOV units in the same container. Model-by-model sheets are on the product catalogue.

Moving from a model code to a purchase order

MOQ, lead times and margin

Our Vietnam office is in Ho Chi Minh City and serves the domestic market on the 7–10 business day window. We do not operate a Hanoi or Bangkok warehouse — anyone claiming stock there is quoting someone else's inventory, which is worth knowing before you promise a delivery date to a project customer. Terms for both tiers are set out on the dealer programme page.

OEM and private label

Private label is available on all 150 SKUs, including all 49 AOV models, from an MOQ of 100. That covers housing and packaging branding, app branding and documentation. If your tender requires something the catalogue does not stock — higher resolution than 2K, a different battery and panel pairing, higher-capacity storage, or a different ingress rating — that is a custom build, quoted by a person against your volume and timeline. We do not publish prices or lead times for custom work, because both depend entirely on quantity.

Installation and field cost

Each camera installs in 5–10 minutes: mount, orient the panel, insert the SIM and the microSD, power on. There is no trenching, no mains connection and no WiFi dependency, which is what makes multi-site rollouts across farms, construction sites, yards and rural properties economic for an installer network. For a distributor pricing a service contract, that install time is the number that decides whether a 200-camera project is profitable.

If you arrived here from a model code we do not recognise, send it over with whatever datasheet came with it and we will tell you honestly whether we build the equivalent, and which of the four series it maps to. Wholesale pricing and container terms are on the wholesale page, or email info@solaguard.net.