Our Datacenter wants to overhaul our camera system

[TechBoyJK]

We have a 25k sq ft facility (all one floor) and our camera system is getting dated. It's basically a hacked together mess of dlink security cameras.

We're wanting to replace the entire system with a new setup that can handle 30+ cameras, record footage, etc.

We already have cat6 cables ran to all the camera spots, so we're hoping to find cameras that are PoE. Where as the Dlink cameras are all stand alone cameras, we'd rather buy cameras that are dependent on a controlling system to function. We want to manage them all from one interface. We can spend a few thousand on the system, and hoping to spend less than $150 per camera.

We'll be recording almost everything.

Any recommendations? So far this Samsung package has our eye. It's all PoE.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16881151169

It's a dvr+8 camera bundle. The dvr supports up to 16 cameras.

We're thinking about buying 4 of them. It'd give us 32 cameras total, and we could use 2 of the DVR's. The other 2 would be reserved for backup use.

 

[LesNews]

Hey TechBoyJK,

I have this setup in our school, except ours is for 8 cameras. We got it at Sams Club.

The quality is pretty good for the price. Installed for almost a year and I see only slight degradation of image quality on the cameras outside getting alot of sun. The DVR is pretty good too, and can output over the web/network and to a vga monitor. I will warn you that the web output is not supported on the Mac/Android platform, at least not on our model. You will want to verify it for the 16 camera setup if that is an issue.

Otherwise, your in-place cat6 should be fine. I am using existing cat5 runs, one is at almost 200 feet with no issue.

 

[Maximus96]

you can look at Blue Iris as it support up to 64 ip cameras. a full license is only $50. i having it running at home controlling 8 cameras and its been flawless. its got motion detect, email alert, record on motion or continuous record...etc.

i also recently discovered the Edimax 3015 camera. its pretty small and discrete with megapixel resolution. It doesn't do pan/tilt but has a pretty wide angle lens, almost 2x as wide as my cheapo foscam pan/tilt cams. it only cost around $50 each...