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I'm against CCTV in public places, as well as stop light cameras and all that other stuff. One more freedom we're slowly giving up...

Something might be holding a button on your keyboard down. Outside of that, sounds like your motherboard might be toast.

Have had good luck with HP Procurve series PoE and PoE+ switches. Most places around here are cisco shops, so when we stick an HP switch into a customers rack, their IT guys tend to notice it's not theirs and never mess with it. If you have a lot of power hungry cameras, another good option is to get a 24 port switch (or whatever size you need), and a separate 24 port PoE injector. Patch the switch into the injector, then run from the injector out to the field. This will eat up some rackspace, but at the same time it will get you 400 watts or more depending on the injector.

In most applications there's usually some source of light, street lights, exterior flood lights, etc. The IR illuminators make up for poor sensors in low quality cameras, and can give a more even spread of IR producing a better quality image. Very rarely (read: never) do I use IR illuminators. I do use thermal cameras every now and then though if the situation requires.

Easiest solution is to remove the tree's.

Aiphone's IP stuff is easy to use, easy to install, usually pretty cheap. Their other stuff is a wiring nightmare and makes me cringe. Upsides are it's cheap, solid, their website has all the information you need, and I've personally never had any problems with their technical support.

Didn't realize you could patent an application of different products.

American Fibertek makes everything you need: 10 series for Coax to fiber back to coax: http://americanfibertek.com/fiber_site/products/A-Video/1-Single%20Channel%20Baseband/10%20SERIES.pdf You'll need an MT-10 and an RT-10. If you need the coax and data for the ptz on fiber, they have a module for that too depending on what you need (manchester/bosch, rs-232, etc.) For the ethernet you can use MX-46 series: http://americanfibertek.com/fiber_site/products/F-Data/5-Ethernet/46_MM_Series.pdf Or if the ethernet and coax go back to the same location, this unit will take care of both: http://americanfibertek.com/fiber_site/products/C-Video-Bi-Directional%20Data/8-Video-Ethernet/91PE.pdf These units use multi-mode fiber, with ST connectors. Another good option is comnet: For video you can use http://www.comnet.net/comnet-products/video/basic-video/fvt11m.html Again, multimode fiber with an ST connector. They have a full line for ethernet, ptz data and video, etc. too just like American Fibertek. I've had great luck with all of the above.

Are the cameras coming up when you connect directly to them or directly to the dvr? Might be a firewall issue.

We typically use fiber for any outdoor camera for this very reason.

The PoE is nice because it doesn't require an external power supply. If you place the ones you linked at the camera with local power and at the head end with coax in between, they'll work just as good. While fiber definitely adds cost, it isn't as expensive as it used to be.

build a small network with a a few switches within 100m of each other, and 100m of each camera. For the switches spread throughout the facility, get a din-rail mount 4 or 8 port switch and put it in an enclosure, and route all the ethernet cables to it. You can mount a power supply next to each can as required. Fiber is your next best option. If none of those will work for you, you could try using Veracity Highwire Outreach line of PoE ethernet extenders (this requires a PoE switch). I've never personally used these, so I can't vouch for them.

If a strand of fiber is used, then it's used. You could possibly put a switch on each end of the fiber though depending on what's already on it. Any idea what's using the fiber already? And is it an analog or IP camera you want to stick on it?

Get a 24 port switch to cover cameras, NVR, and any workstations. I've had good luck with cisco, HP, and transition networks... the latter probably being the most reasonably priced. For a UPS, 12 hours seems excessive. We work more towards 15 minutes. Power should come back on pretty quick, if it doesn't then you have other issues to worry about at that point. The inputs/outputs on cameras (a lot of cameras don't seem to have them anymore) varies depending on the NVR software. Double check your laws, surveillence of a mall parking lot and a park without permission and signage could be an invasion of privacy. I'll look through the rest later.

Figure out your burden rate, and add at least 50%. Calculate the cost to employee yourself. Vehicle, vehicle maintenance, what you pay yourself, tools, insurance, bank fees, license fees, etc. all of the expenses related to your business. Then divide it by how many hours a year you work (40 hours a week). That's your burden rate, it's everything it costs to employee you. If this comes out at or below $50 for some reason, then charge closer to $75 for scheduled work with companies you have T&M agreements with, ~$100 for emergency call-outs, and ~$125 for after hours. These rates will fluctuate with your area... in NYC it'd be more, in rural Alabama it'd be a lot less. Then tack on materials if there are any. Would also have a minimum charge of 2-4 hours to cover trip. Also, do some recon and see what others in your area are charging so you can stay competitive.

In the US, the gaming commissions in most states have a lot of input on this. Generally nobody gets access to the casino cameras but the casino people and the gaming commission. I would definitively put the casino on it's own network for security and bandwidth reasons if possible. You can create a gateway and connect the DVR to both the casino network and the hotel network if access is needed/required/acceptable. This would only allow access to the DVR, and not to the actual cameras.

The ADA door operator buttons are wireless? The two ways I deal with door operators are by using an optional board for access control a lot of door operators have, or by taking over control of the buttons (enabling/disabling the outside button with validation of a card read, and treating the inside one as a rex which drives a timer that unlocks the door then waits a few seconds and activates the ada). If you can't get signals from the wireless buttons though, an no inputs/outputs are provided by the ada controller, then I'm not sure what to do. Need a specific make/model of the door operator to get an idea of whats going on. It's been my experience calling tech support for the operator never helps either.

Threw this out in another thread recently, but if the warehouse has lights, just install occupancy sensors on the lights instead of dealing with night vision. Occupancy sensors will turn on the warehouse lights whenever they detect motion, and will turn the warehouse lights off automatically after so many minutes. You can sell it to the customer for energy savings too as it will turn the warehouse lights out whenever they aren't needed and automatically turn them on when needed during normal business hours. Only downside is a new light might need to be installed for this to work, but again, the energy savings for this should pay for itself over time.

I've used Barco video walls for similar applications of viewing lots of analog cameras at the same time. Might be a dated solution nowadays though.

I've used both, great pictures, easy to install and use. They come into the nvr software as an encoder with 4 cameras basically, but if you tell whoever your software people are that it's one dome with multiple cameras to get a 180/360 view they should only charge you for one camera license but give you four. This has been my experience with a few different software vendors and these types of cameras anyway.

We requested pricing, our rep hasn't seen any pricing at all on it but hopes to have it in the next few weeks. We have a customer in mind that would definitely go for this and hopefully we could have it on site and installed as soon as everything is available. Customer already has his guards carry around ipad's and they're all connected to a campus wide wifi network. The machine thing I'm not worried about. Worst case scenario, we install it on one of the cctv workstations that's up 24/7 regardless.

Everything's always licensed, even the amount of workstations. Doesn't mean you can't install the software on 100 iphones, just means only 1 or 2 or however many seats you have can connect to the server and pull video or do whatever it does at the same time. Buying a license for the server instead of software for every machine is cheaper every time...

In general it's the shaded area that activates the motion detection recording. If there's a sensitivity setting somewhere, try turning that down. Noisy cameras often set off false alarms too. How does it store your files? If you can see the file size of each incident, you can probably ignore the ones that are all roughly the same size as false alarms and look for the larger ones to be recordings of people on your property.

Red jacketed cable in general is fire alarm. Completely depends on the fire alarm panel, although I can't think of any fire alarm panels that use Ethernet for their networks. I'm sure a few are out there though and more will be going that direction. Our detection loops use an 18 gauge 2 conductor cable.

Red. Not blue. Maybe grey if you can't find the red. Red is typically for fire alarm. Green jacketed is more common for security. Although any color will work. to the OP, for cctv power I always use 2 conductor stranded 18 guage cable.