Hello and thanks in advance to anyone that can help. I've been tasked by my friend to set up a CCTV system for his apartment building/management office. I have zero, zip, nadda, experience in this area, but being that I handle all of the IT for his business, this naturally fell into my lap.
I've done quite a bit of research on this topic and learned some things but at the same time there is a lot that seems a bit confusing. This is why I've come to you. So here we go.
What we need is an 8 channel system (front door, back door, laundry room, office, tool room, storage room and possibly a hallway or two). The building is an older, brick building that stretches 120 feet. The office, where we want to keep the DVR is going to be remodeled and moved in the next 6 months so the distance to the DVR will vary on a per camera basis in the near future. With this in mind (and the fact that my friend does not want to have people see the wires) we would like to go wireless. We do not need internet access to the cameras or the DVR. We just want a central DVR that all cameras talk to that I can output to the TV on the wall. Obviously we're trying to do this as inexpensively as possible. No real frills. The lighting will be a bit darker in some spaces and better in others. Color recording is not a must as long as we can get decent imagery from the black and white.
Ok so that's all that I can think of. Does anyone have any ideas of how to assemble (purchase) this system? I'm looking for either full system packages or separate cameras and DVRs. I've been given a $900 budget that I could probably stretch to $1000 if need be. I can also go with just the six cameras that I mentioned to start with and add more later.
If you need more input, please ask. Thanks again for any and all help.
Brent
