DS-2CD2T46G2H-4I

The wide-angle workhorse for driveways and front yards

There is a moment every Pretoria homeowner knows. The dogs go off at the back fence at 2am, your phone is silent, and you are standing in the dark trying to decide whether to get out of bed. Was that someone climbing the wall, or was it the cat?

The Hikvision DS-2CD2T46G2H-4I with the 2.8mm wide-angle lens is the camera we install on driveways, front yards, and under-eave positions where one mount needs to capture the whole picture from gate to garage. It is a 4MP IP bullet with onboard AcuSense AI. The chip inside the camera looks at every moving thing in its view, decides whether it is a person, a vehicle, or just the wind, and only sends an alert to your phone when something genuinely matters.

That sounds like a small thing. In practice it is the difference between a CCTV system you trust and one you mute within a fortnight, which (as we have written about elsewhere) is the single most common reason CCTV fails to protect the people who pay for it.

What this camera is actually good at

• 4MP resolution. Sharp enough that when you scroll back through the footage three days later, you can still read a number plate, see the logo on a hoodie, or tell SAPS the colour of the shoes.
• Wide 2.8mm lens. Captures roughly a 102° horizontal field of view. One camera covers the whole driveway, the front gate, and the porch from a single mounting position.
• DarkFighter low-light performance. This is the technology that means you do not need to flood your driveway with halogen lights at night. The camera pulls usable detail out of streetlight, gate-light, even moonlight on a clear evening.
• 120 dB true WDR. When a car turns into your driveway with its headlights pointed at the camera, you do not lose the driver’s face to glare. The camera balances bright and dark the way your eyes do.
• AcuSense human and vehicle classification. Filters out the dogs, cats, bats, wind in the trees, and the moths fluttering around the IR LEDs. Only humans and vehicles trigger the alert on your phone.
• H.265+ video compression. Your hard drive holds roughly twice as much footage. Useful when you want to scroll back to last Tuesday morning to check what time the gardener actually arrived.
• IP67 weather-sealed housing. Built for Highveld hailstorms, summer thunderstorms, and dust. We have units installed in 2014 still running today.

Where this camera belongs on your property

The 2.8mm version of the DS-2CD2T46G2H-4I earns its keep on:

• Driveways under 15 metres long, where one camera needs to cover gate to garage
• Front yards and patios, taking in the whole open area from one corner mount
• Side passages and tight gaps between the house and the boundary wall
• Back yards in standard suburban homes, watching pool, washing line, and back door together

If your driveway is longer than 15 metres, or your boundary wall stretches further than the wide lens can resolve detail at distance, the 4mm version of the same camera (the DS-2CD2T46G2H-4I 4mm) gives you a tighter view and more usable detail at range. We often install both: the 2.8mm at the front, the 4mm watching long perimeter walls.

If you want a bit more, or a bit different

• The DS-2CD2086G2H-I ColorVu 8MP is the step up when you want full-colour night footage and twice the pixels. The right call for the front gate of a larger home, or anywhere you want clothing colour and faces at night.
• The DS-2CD2646G2HT-IZS 2.8 to 12mm adds a motorised zoom lens. Useful when one camera needs to flex between a wide situational view and a tight zoom on a specific area.
• The DS-2CD2T46G2-ISU/SL takes the same 4MP bullet body and adds a built-in strobe and siren. The camera does not just record the trespasser, it actively tells them to leave.
• For a smaller, lower-profile mount where the bigger T46 housing is overkill, the DS-2CD2T46G2H-2I 2.8mm is the compact sister product.

For 6+ camera homes, this camera pairs natively with the DS-7616NXI-K2 16-channel NVR. A single ethernet cable from the recorder to the camera carries both data and power. For a complete picture of what a properly designed home setup looks like, our home CCTV installation guide walks through camera selection by property type.

Getting it to deliver what it promises

Hikvision’s AI features (AcuSense, line crossing, intrusion zones) only deliver the false-alarm reduction the brochure promises when the detection zones, sensitivity thresholds, and notification rules are properly configured for the specific property. A factory-default install will still fire ten alerts a night from a neighbour’s washing line.

If you would like us to install and configure it for you, we cover Pretoria East, Centurion, Midrand, and Johannesburg. Every camera is fully tuned and live-tested before we leave the property. If you are a competent DIYer, we will happily ship the unit with phone or WhatsApp configuration support afterwards.

Either way, every camera carries the full 3-year Hikvision South Africa warranty through authorised distribution. Pricing for supply-only or supply-and-install is on our CCTV installation prices page.

Browse the Hikvision IP bullet camera range or read more about Hikvision CCTV systems. Current installation specials available.

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