HELP! 34 Network Camera Installation

[LasleyMediaKentucky]

In need of help! 

 

I've never done anything like this before on this scale, but I have done similar things within my school's IT dept. 

 

I've been asked to set up a 34-camera surveillance system for a Daycare near where I live. I have some vitally important questions.

 

What is the BEST camera recording/playback/live view program out there? It doesn't need to be super expensive, just needs to have support for 34 cameras, long-term recording, live viewing to a monitor in the waiting area (very important) and remote monitoring. (the recording server has 8 cores, 16GB of RAM, and 4TB of storage, and dual GBE NIC's.) 

 

Any ideas? Do I need a separate, lower-powered machine for the live view in the waiting area? 

 

Here's a layout of everything that I am currently going to need. (attached) Is this all I'm going to need? 

 

Thanks! 

[Guest]

iSpy? Love that blue shirt. In fact I love anything blue

[leadeater]

I really like Milestone XProtect, great software easy to use and install. Ether XProtect Express or Professional will do the job for you.

 

https://www.milestonesys.com/our-products/video-management-software/

https://www.milestonesys.com/our-products/video-management-software/xprotect-express/

https://www.milestonesys.com/our-products/video-management-software/xprotect-professional/

 

They even have pre-built recording servers but they will likely be too costly, check them out anyway just in case.

https://www.milestonesys.com/our-products/network-video-recorders/

 

Edit: I see your buying used server equipment so yea totally forget the pre-built Husky M servers.

 

 

[dalekphalm]

If you want the BEST, that's probably AXIS Camera Station - very powerful and robust software. But it's not cheap. Their new licensing model is based on how many "connections" you have coming into the server (One IP Address = one connection). So therefore, if you have 34 IP Cameras, you'll have 34 incoming connections. However, if you had, for example, 34 Analog CCTV Cameras connected to 9x 4-port Media Encoders, you'll have 9 incoming connections.

 

Anyway, that's neither here nor there. AXIS is great, but I suspect it might be too expensive for you. If you have an IT Software Reseller you work with, get a quote and see what it'll cost, but it might be too much.

[.:MARK:.]

Are you planning to rackmount the server? Do you have the rails for that?

[dzonidev]

Plus one on the Milestone. What is your plan for the network layout?

[LasleyMediaKentucky]

On 10/5/2016 at 2:52 PM, .:MARK:. said:

Are you planning to rackmount the server? Do you have the rails for that?

It's a shallow depth server, we'll just mount it to the bottom. We changed it from a 1U server to a 4U custom server.

[LasleyMediaKentucky]

On 10/5/2016 at 7:07 PM, dzonidev said:

Plus one on the Milestone. What is your plan for the network layout?

What exactly do you mean as the "layout"? We have a pretty good idea of how we are going to run cables, where the cameras are, and where the central station is going to be. 

[dlink377]

For security camera, I usually go with Hikvision products, since it is easier to handle and most likely more cost effective than other product. Using H.265 encoding only uses 6Mbps on 4MP camera, still a lot of headroom on 1Gbps network. Buy two NVR for more reliability, and VLAN and Multicast the video feed from the IP Camera to avoid high CPU usage on the IP camera when sending feed to multiple NVR.

 

If you need remote monitoring, you most likely need another PC just for live view. A simple cheap celeron NUC will do it just fine, even a raspberry will do it for you If you can set it up. You can always use HDMI to TCP/IP extender to send your NVR video output over TCP/IP if you don't want the hassle for another PC, like what I do.