Hotel IP CCTV system

[eng_moh104 0]

Hello Guys

 

I have an issue in designing IP CCTV system for a hotel, the hotel consists of two Buildings, building 1 consists of 26 floors with total of 200 Cameras, and building 2 consists of 28 floors with total of 200 cameras, there is no problem in the floor design level, i have used one data switch for each three floors and one fiber core switch per each building, the issue is that there is two different control rooms one at each building and client requires that each control room controls / Monitor the building cameras (200 camera per each building) and in case of one of the control rooms has been down the another control room can handle the control / Monitor for the two building, in meanwhile i should use virtual matrix to provide the features of the conventional analog CCTV matrix, i am thinking about using Luxriot Software and ACTi cameras.

 

kindly help me how can I achieve the hot standby configuration and you might recommend me the number of monitors per each Control room.

 

Thank you in advance

[thewireguys 3]

Well I would never recommend Luxriot for a system like that but what you want can be done.

 

All you would need is a fiber between the buildings and the so the control rooms can see both networks. You have many design options with this. But keep in mind the usability with a system with this size.

[eng_moh104 0]

Well I would never recommend Luxriot for a system like that but what you want can be done.

 

All you would need is a fiber between the buildings and the so the control rooms can see both networks. You have many design options with this. But keep in mind the usability with a system with this size.

 

Thank you for your reply, kindly could you recommend another platform, and how can i apply the hot standby configuration.

[thewireguys 3]

Well I would never recommend Luxriot for a system like that but what you want can be done.

 

All you would need is a fiber between the buildings and the so the control rooms can see both networks. You have many design options with this. But keep in mind the usability with a system with this size.

 

Thank you for your reply, kindly could you recommend another platform, and how can i apply the hot standby configuration.

 

 

There would be no hot stand by for the clients. It would be one big network so you client locations could see each other at the same time if you would like. You could then setup user access to different cameras to limit access to only they cameras you want them to see.

 

You have many options for VMS software.

 

Milestone

OnSSI

Genetec

Dvtel

Exacq

 

 

This is not going to be a cheap system and depending your camera selection you will need 4 to 5 servers per hotel to handle all of the cameras.

[Guest]

Wireguys response is correct.

 

I would sugest you need to take a step back in your design process and define the specific risk(s) (technical details) you are trying to design for.

 

Is it loss of a cable (which?), fire, evacuation, power etc and for what period of time?

 

Each risk considered will require a different response to maintain control room dual use (do you need live access to cameras, access to recordings)?

 

Ilkie

[eng_moh104 0]

Dear All

 

Thank you very much for your kind reply.

 

The issue is that i have many servers ( about 3 Servers in each building), each Client will gather images from one of those servers, now if one server is down all relacted clients will not display images, and that is the problem i need to solve.

 

Thank you in advance

[thewireguys 3]

Your clients will connect to all of your servers. So you will have 3 servers per hotel (If they are 200 HD/Megapixel cameras I would think you would need more like 4-5 servers) and one client per hotel. Total of 6 servers 2 clients.

 

Get a fiber connection between buildings so you can make one big system and both clients can see all servers.

 

Of your worried about a server going down and not having video from those cameras that is a different problem.

 

This can be done but it will be a function of your VMS software and I don't think Luxrot can do that.

 

The software we use has up to 2 hot standby servers so if one server fails it will automatically switch to the backup server.

[eng_moh104 0]

Thewireguy thank you very much for your kind support.

 

you might provide me the software name and manufacturer which can support up to two standby servers

 

Best Regards,

 

Mohammed

[thewireguys 3]

Where are you located and what is the budget. Have you ever completed a IP project the size.

[eng_moh104 0]

I am located at Egypt, we have completed a project of 269 cameras, i have drawed a riser diagram for this project you may find it attached, i am helping a conslutant office to put a solution and we are estimating the project cost at this phase.

CCTV.rar

[skomo 0]

Have you looked at Avigilon?

 

I know that you can do redundant and also failover recording, for example have B1 cameras recording to both B1 and B2 NVR's at the same time, or that if B1 NVR fails, that B2 automatically starts to record the B1 Cameras.

You can also have each control room have access to all the cameras.

You would just need to make sure a redundant network link is active between both buildings...