Looking to go cloud based with my IP camera system.

[AHouseman 0]

Hi All,

 

I run a 15 camera set up for the company I work for, and am running into issues with our local server on a very regular basis. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on a company to use to take the entire set up to the cloud. We are looking to minimize our local maintenance. It looks like any sort of long term storage is out the question, but would love to be able to script the export of the files to either a local server or some other cloud service.

 

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thank you.

[buellwinkle 0]

It probably won't be as easy as you expect. To do it properly, you need a PC or NVR device locally that captures events for all the cameras and sends the events to a remote location. Your device or PC would act as a buffer to hold recordings until network bandwidth can catch up. The commercial solutions I've seen at trade shows work like this.

 

But I'm afraid what you want is the cameras to record directly to the cloud. If your cameras are HD resolution or better and most modern day cameras are, you need a minimum 4Mbps per camera with h.264 compression, so 15 cameras would be 60Mbps, but there's other factors like latency so an internet connection is not advisable. You may be able to get away with a dedicated OC1 circuit but likely need an OC3 circuit to the cloud provider. The alternative is to go with cameras that can write directly to a NAS like Mobotix and setup a remote NAS connection like at Amazon Web Services. Then only events are sent, not streaming video, but again, you need a fast connection if there's lots of simultaneous events going on.

[tomcctv 190]

THAT is $2.400 a year for 4 cameras ........... And look at your storage res limit .........ITS CIF why would anyone turn to your company who has say 2mp cameras and be limited to that size

Waste of money.

 

 

Cloud does not have to leave the building the NVR is at there are now many cloud drives like W/Digital that are small and be hidden well in the home or office

 

 

$2.400 for 4cameras A Year

 

$5.000 for 8 cameras A Year

 

Both very low resolution

 

 

It's much cheaper just to install 2 NVRs .......1as main other a hidden back up

 

But take a look at a private cloud and only pay once for hardware