David4Star

We are looking to get around 4-6 cameras, probably at least two for outdoor night and the other ones for indoor also night. There are so many cameras out there I am having trouble trying to find what i need! For the outdoor cameras I Would like to be able to capture license plates at night, would it be possible in this price range? And for indoor I would like to be able to see faces to recognize a person if possible also. Thank you, David

Okay, I have some more information. We need two cameras outdoor, one for each of our gate locations, to be able to capture licenses plates. My boss said they will be installed about 50 feet away. I can possible bump the budget upto $700 for each of them but would like to stay cheaper if possible, since I still need to get two for indoors to just generally recognize a person, nothing too fancy there. If you guys have any idea what would fit my needs let me know, I'm lost! Thanks, David

Thank you for the info guys! Sadly I do not have too much more information to give right now, because I don't have it >_<. I am the IT admin here, and the GM asked us to put together something, without giving us crap for details. I am going to have my boss speak to him again today to try to figure out what is really needed and why. I do know we most likely want to be able to catch licenses plates if possible and be able to recognize a person, if its my guess they have a problem with stealing at night. Couldn't tell you the exact distance unfortunately, but I do understand these things aren't magic and im not gonna catch a plate/face if its that far away lol. As for the NVR and POE switch, I have a computer build that I have saved at newegg to act as a server for it, and I did actually pick out that exact POE switch from newegg also, since it was the cheapest and looked like it could power the most, and should work for us right now with room to expand in the future. I would say our budget is $4,000 max most likely( I know, its not much, especially for what is asked) for the NVR computer/poe/cameras/possibly licenses in the software. I am not sure which software to get yet either, I was going to see if we go with one brand of camera if using their software was better. Thanks again, I will try to get you more details later.

Hello everyone, Let me start off by saying I have about zero experience in this area, but I can make it work. I am the IT admin at work, and I just had the general manager call me into a meeting wanting me to put together a Surveillance system for him. We are in manufacturing and have a large warehouse and some office space. I think(Yes, this was the great information I got, aka almost none>_<) we are looking at a max of 16 cameras, and I would say a budget of $5,000. Basically they want a system that has good resolution, night/day(In theory night is when we would mostly need it from what I understood), He would like motion sensor capability so he doesn't have to sit through a whole days worth of recording to try to find a little 30 minute segment or whatnot. He also wants us to buy all the equipment and setup/install it ourselves. I think we would try to hardware them in cat5, but bonus support to IOS and wifi is good also. I Really hope you guys can help me and I appreciate it very much. Thanks, Dave