Planing entire alarm system with cameras

[McCarthy 0]

Hey guys what's up?

 

I have been reading and researching home alarm systems and video surveillance on and off for many years and always got stuck with too many questions at some point. Well I don't want to wait until somebody breaks into my house and get it now done within the next month. But I will need some help and suggestions and that's why I decided to sign up on this board.

 

I attached a floor plan of my house to help with any suggestions on what to buy and where to install. I included all 5 planned cameras and the alarm sensors on doors and windows.

 

So far I'd like to get these things:

 

- 5 wireless 720p outdoor cameras (one at the front door; 4 on each corner of the house recording alongside the walls. This way I should have everything covered and each camera records the next camera just in case somebody screws with them.

 

I already own a Synergy NAS disk station with 10 TB incl. installed recoding app and would like to use this to record all 5 channels in a loop.

 

- 1 Central alarm system monitoring all 11 door switches and glass break sensors on all outside doors, garage door and all windows. This system needs to be connected to an inside / outside siren with flash and set off a call to the local police station when triggered and notify me via call on my cell phone. I also need to be able to monitor this system from my Android cell phone.

 

 

So what do you guys suggest? What cameras work very well, especially with a NAS from Synergy? What central alarm system matches my requirements? Any other ideas? Am I missing something?

[cctv007 0]

Your setup looks pretty good. The only thing I would say is the drawing shows 1 camera on each corner and you mention having 4 on the corners in your post... Using cameras on the corners to cover the entire side of a house may have some issues with seeing what is going on in the long distances to where the other camera starts. You will also have blind spots in the corners directly underneath each camera when there is just one or even two facing one in each direction. Placing two cameras halfway in the long sections facing each other just a couple feet apart will get rid of blind spots and make both shots shorter and therefore clearer.

 

When it comes to wireless cameras I like to say "If wireless worked there would be no wired cameras sold..." Even wireless network cameras will still need power cables run to them (perhaps until they run off of hydrogen or power cells) and analog wireless cameras can overrun the frequency of your wifi and are usually such lower grade that the pictures are not worth the money no matter how inexpensive they are. Wifi IP cameras are 90% used of indoors and all the ones I have seen for outdoors still require power cables and in my experience are not as good or reliable as outdoor cabled ones. Dahua and Hikvision (and there are many resellers in the US) offers the best DVR's/NVR's cameras and their POE NVR's only require one ethernet cable per camera which provides power and video. Power up to 328' and video up to close to 1,000'. And they are pretty much plug and play.

 

That being said there may be a wireless solution that I am not aware of but any of them will still require drilling a hole in the wall to get power to them and typically use a power adapter so that hole will have to come out in a room to use an outlet or be wired toa basement or attic which would be identical to running a cable to a DVR/NVR.

 

IP cameras themselves typically have NAS settings built in and the NVR's I mentioned above definitely do.

 

I hope this helps

[McCarthy 0]

Your setup looks pretty good. The only thing I would say is the drawing shows 1 camera on each corner and you mention having 4 on the corners in your post... Using cameras on the corners to cover the entire side of a house may have some issues with seeing what is going on in the long distances to where the other camera starts. You will also have blind spots in the corners directly underneath each camera when there is just one or even two facing one in each direction. Placing two cameras halfway in the long sections facing each other just a couple feet apart will get rid of blind spots and make both shots shorter and therefore clearer.

 

When it comes to wireless cameras I like to say "If wireless worked there would be no wired cameras sold..." Even wireless network cameras will still need power cables run to them (perhaps until they run off of hydrogen or power cells) and analog wireless cameras can overrun the frequency of your wifi and are usually such lower grade that the pictures are not worth the money no matter how inexpensive they are. Wifi IP cameras are 90% used of indoors and all the ones I have seen for outdoors still require power cables and in my experience are not as good or reliable as outdoor cabled ones. Dahua and Hikvision (and there are many resellers in the US) offers the best DVR's/NVR's cameras and their POE NVR's only require one ethernet cable per camera which provides power and video. Power up to 328' and video up to close to 1,000'. And they are pretty much plug and play.

 

That being said there may be a wireless solution that I am not aware of but any of them will still require drilling a hole in the wall to get power to them and typically use a power adapter so that hole will have to come out in a room to use an outlet or be wired toa basement or attic which would be identical to running a cable to a DVR/NVR.

 

IP cameras themselves typically have NAS settings built in and the NVR's I mentioned above definitely do.

 

I hope this helps

 

Thanks for the input