trb

Newbie that be me. I need to develop a CCTV system for a Motel/Gas Station/MiniMart. I currently have an 8 camera system that has 420p video (very poor). I want 10 to 12 cameras all at 1080p. I want to be able to view the cameras remotely. I would like to cover the cash registers and display cases in the Mini Mart. I want to cover the gas station area. I want to cover the Motel area parking lot and possibly the exterior corridors. I have a 10-100 backbone thru out the property as well as wireless. I will probably be upgrading the backbone to Gigabit. The property is approximately 1 acre. It can be seen here https://www.google.com/maps/place/Howard+Johnson+Marina+at+Monterey+Bay/@36.679816,-121.78482,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x808dfce966e7a25d:0x13e6a1b8cd594b76?hl=en Any help, ideas ,vendors ,preferences ... would be appreciated. I am technically capable (EE) but certainly do not know much about the rapidly changing field of CCTV. Thanking you in advance Terry

Boogieman You may be absolutely correct. I was thinking of an exterior use watching the gas pumps. Additionally at my shop to have one watching my gated parking lot. I think on the interior stuff that fixed cameras are the ticket as well. My goal is to buy some stuff and evaluate in my shop (30000 sq ft + parking lot). If I can gain some understanding in a "fake" world where I have some control then I can try deploying into a world where I have less control. I want to try some stuff watching cash registers as well for both my mini mart and for my parking revenue control. www.secomintl.com TR

Boogieman Well as PT Barnum said there is one born every second. I "hope" that the auto tracking works. The claim is to auto track and auto zoom on the subject. If that software works I think it has value. If not then I have spent some engineering money and will end up with hopefully a camera that can be manually driven. I do not have any knowledge in this CCTV area but I want to gain some. I will try to check out the "Egress" as I heard it is quite an interesting bird. In another area check out terrybixler.smugmug.com some cool (I think) pics. Hopefully the mods will not take offense. Thanks for the reply TRB

I am going to try an owl vision ptz O-RDC305IP-G-W20IA-W1 Coupled with a QNAP v6-4116/ or 2104 for a basic test. I have multiple interests in this project. I am thinking about hooking up one of my transaction oriented applications and allowing a click on an event to grab a section of the video from the QNAP and display it on a local PC. Of course I have ordered some stuff but does anyone have some experience with these devices.

2 to 4 k but if something was really good I could imagine more.

Proving that I have boundless energy with sonar turned off any thoughts on VS-4116-PRO+-US from QNAP. I have some experience with ASUS NAS and the NAS approach seem to be address the drive swapping issues. Tomorrow I will try to meet with the HiKVision engineers if my marketing guy can set up appointment. I do not know if there is an API to interface the files. I have a transaction oriented log review that would be slick if I could drill into the video file and show a clip during the a particular transaction time.

So now I have been trolling at AliExpress and B&H. Submarines have better luck with their sonar turned off.

Not that I am not listening but any thoughts on Samsung SRN-1670D-8TB 16CH HD Network. I do have rack space in an electrical closet. How does the Samsung stuff rank with the HiKiVision stuff?

Thanks for the info and I am now looking at Hikvision. There is factory support here in Los Angeles and I have a security oriented company here (Secom International). I will explore them with a view as a supplier to Secom. Any other thoughts? We do parking revenue control systems and sometimes put cameras in to support the revenue control. Terry

CYANiDE I will check. Any thoughts on the CostCo http://www.costco.com/AvertX-16-Channel-NVR-with-4TB-HDD-and-10-Autofocus-3MP-HD-IP-Dome-Cameras.product.100097394.html Any thoughts on auto tracking cameras?