dustind

I spent a while reading about the products that video insight offers and it looks like most of the features I was looking for in the IP cameras can be obtained with analog cameras with their cards and software. The central monitoring capability looks very useful since the buildings are spread apart too far to have a single central computer. Thanks for your help guys. Dustin

Hello, I am starting to research a surveillance camera system for my work and I am trying to decide if we should go with network IP cameras. There are about 8 to 10 buildings spread out over 100 acres that wil eventually have 4 to 8 cameras each. Most of the buildings will have the cameras installed in harsh marine type environments. There is an existing fiber based network installed that should have enough bandwidth available and there are extra pairs of fiber between several of the buildings to allow for a network within the network for the cameras if necessary. I have been doing some reading and it looks like the main advantage to the ip cameras is we can use existing wiring to overcome the long distances between the buildings. It seems the disadvantages are limited camera options and more expensive cameras. Are network cameras the best solution for this spread out system, or should I be looking in another direction until the camera technology and selection improves more? Thanks Dustin