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Hello Guys, I am new to IP installations. I have used NUUO Mini (much fail) and Qnap 2 Bay (little storage) We want to overhaul a 14 channel Analog system to full IP or semi full. Can you please advise on the following: Outdoor (300 - 400$ per cam) Dome camera Infrared with vari focal. Monitoring vehicles day & night (nothing hectic) Indoor (150 - 250$ per cam) Dome or bullet infrared fixed lens (3.6 - 6mm) NVR (2500 - 3000$) 4 HDD + Multi channel playback (with 'hot swapping' & time independant camera modes) Optional: (Later) possible integration with LPR module. If you guys can point me into the right direction I would really appreciate it. The brands I have seen at suppliers were: Hikvision, Axiz, Vivotek, Messoa, Bosch, Honeywell, Ubiquiti, Milesight, Milestone, Panasonic, Pelco, Nuuo, Samsung

DS-2CD2732F-I looks like a really smart and a lot cheaper than my analog domes to. From topics on this forum I found the DS-2CD2012-I also really good quality (too bad its a bullet)

What I want to know is. How does the end user actually use the LPR data? Is the module configured to deposit data & timestamp in database or?

Thank you for the reply I have forgotten to mention, we have million of flies at this location That is the main reason why I prefer domes + Less flies sitting front of lens + Easy to clean poop from dome + Vandal proof + Spiders cant build webs easily around dome (triggering motion) Outdoor dome looks great. Will try to get a few of them for the gate. Regarding indoor: I Like the quality of the camera you mentioned, I am just afraid the flies will destroy this camera and looks difficult to clean.

Do you mean OpenALPR? It's totally independent of NVR software, you would have to develop the code to pass their routines an image from the camera say 4-5 times per second and it returns the plate number as text, then you would have to write this say to a database or file, along with the image the plate match was based on. Then you would have to develop the code to search and display the results. This is a cool project for someone to take on. I would if I had the C skills. I bet we can find a few people that want to work on this, we can setup an open source company using crowdfunding site like KickStarter.com using donation based funding. I like your thinking. Many people will want to buy in on this.