Small CCTV network Design Help

[carefreeams 0]

Hi all,

 

I have been searching for some time and am having difficulty putting together a cheap camera solution.

 

I live on a property with a house and an unheated (but powered) barn. The barn has line of sight and is about 200 feet from the house.

 

We require a total of 4-5 cameras on the barn. 2 will be PTZ indoor, 1 will be an outdoor dome PTZ and the other 2 fixed. All require IR night vision.

 

The issue I am having is the need for the recording device to be in the house. The barn gets very cold in the winter. We also want the recording device to be internet and TV accessible.

 

I cannot run networking or other cable underground-overhead due to the risk of lightning and the proximity to the electric fencing. Our wireless network does not reach from the house to the barn currently.

 

The only solution that seems to work is two ubiquiti network 150Mb network bridges to get networking into the barn and all of the cameras wired POE/IP. This is quite expensive.

 

It would be nice to have all the cameras wireless, but I seriously doubt if I could reach our Wifi to the barn that there would be enough bandwidth for 5 cameras all wireless.

 

Does anyone know of a way I could do this cheaply? Say under 1000$

 

thanks

[hardwired 0]

You could use the same Ubiquiti wireless bridge equipment (at those distances, i would use a pair of Nanostation Loco M5's), but instead of using all IP cameras, install a encoder at the barn and use analog cameras there.

 

Then, you could use NVR software on a (dedicated, preferably) PC at the home for control/viewing.

 

Avigilon four channel encoders only require one channel of software licensing (you could use the Core version), and it's a very user friendly application. There are other similar hardware/software packages that could work, also.

 

It's going to be tough to keep the project under $1000, though, unless you source some REALLY cheap offshore PTZ's..... I regularly sell Pelco PTZ's for $2000+ each.

[Kawboy12R 0]

Does the power to the barn come from the house? If so, try a powerline network adapter. I've used them at work and at home to get internet to outbuildings that get their power from the same building that has 'net.