Newbie - Growing Company Needs a good system

[gpmmg 0]

I am trying to design a system for our company. We are a property management company that manages many different apartment complexes.

 

Our first building I put in two years ago which are three stand-alone DVR's with 40 cameras around the inside and outside of the building. All cameras are analog domes and ir led cameras outside. System has worked well until now.

 

We have three other buildings within our city we now want to do the same thing to. Need help.

Situation:

We have a MAC network with iphone, ipad, itouch, laptops, etc..... on the network. So I need a remote viewer I can use from a mac and if possible has a app for the iphone or any smartphone would be nice.

 

Current Building can use a dedicated pc to remotely view current system from our mac.

 

Site 2 - 10 different buildings on 30 acre lot. each building needs at least 4 cameras.

 

Site 3 - 3 different buildings on 10 acre lot. each building needs at least 4 cameras.

 

Main concern is we need to be able to monitor and look back at the recordings remotely. I can get a dsl connection at each location.

 

Any suggestions for setups? Software, DVR, ip or analog cameras?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Campbell 0]

I'd use IP cameras with some sort of centralised management software. But that's me. Geovision's CMS is an example.

 

I used this setup on a major butcher chain in Sydney and linked everything back to their head office. Each site had between 5-10 cameras.

 

Others will tell you that individual DVR's with remote viewing capabilities and you can log in to each one remotely.

 

Or alternatively you can set up individual NVR's and do the same thing.

 

Depends on your budget really.

[thewireguys 3]

I would take a hard look at Exacq and the ELS boxes. You will get analog and ip cameras plus it runs on Windows Linux and Mac.

 

http://www.exacq.com/products/exacqvisionELS.html