darrentky 0 Posted March 19, 2007 Im in a dilemma in choosing between DVR and NVR. Our company just built a warehouse and most of our operations will move in soon in the near fuiture. There will be many racks in the storage section (at the back). There will also be a front store where items are sold to the public. The second floor of the front store will be an office. We need a surveillance system for both indoors and outdoors. Indoors will be the section mentioned above and outdoors would be genrally monitoring forklifts and traffic into the warehouse. The directors wants to see the warehouse remotely as well as on the site. I know that DVRs can have both of that but does not support more than 16 cameras. With the large scale of our warehouse and also the number of blindspots due to the racks with have, we need more than 16 cameras for sure. The directors also wants surveillance for the front store and the office. As for the budget, the directors are happy to spend as they consider surveillance an important part of this warehouse. We are situated in Malaysia and the internet bandwidth is not very stable here. Can NVR be recorded on the physical site? Can anyone recommend which system we should implement? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mobiquitus 0 Posted March 28, 2007 Hi I would say that your recording unit (DVR or NVR) should be in the warehouse and therefore Internet will be a concern only when connecting to it remotely. NVR uses LAT cables (e.g. CAT5) building a sort of Inranet (a private LAN) which is actually not directly connected to Internet. Using IPcamera instead of analogue ones (through an NVR) will give you the benefit of an easier way of adding more cameras and expanding your system in the future. DVR with analogue capture cards have their bottleneck in the capability of adding new cards and in their analog ports limitation. While adding more IPcam to your Intarnet would be quite straightforward. Considering a good IPcam stream to be at around 1-4 Mbps you should have enough capacity for many cams using a 100Mbps or 1 Gbps LAN configuration. An Hybrid DVR (with both AN and IP ports) might be also an alternative. Do you have any old equipment (e.g. cameras) that you want to re-use from your previous location ? THX BR CIPO Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
