Which CCTV design is better ?

[xicor]

all of it, there is no cat cabling where the display monitors are at the moment

 

How much cat cabling would you need to terminate? Mostly it's already installed in buildings already... You wouldn't necessarily even need to add computers, you could utilise the app on existing relevant staff PCs?

[xicor]

5 someones yes, running a good 12 hours a day rather than 24 hours, all year round yes exp public holidays and weekends etc

 

 

Have you got someone (or 5 someones) who will be monitoring the system 24/7/365? Surely the monitoring stations could be turned off overnight and holidays when they aren't being actively used?

Otherwise, yeah. Having to get and maintain 5 extra PCs is an over-head.

[armadillo]

Little more expensive, but less maintenance.

 

Synology nas with 96TB of skyhawks - £5,500

 

IP cameras hik do some around the £100 mark.

 

Software is free

 

Just plugs into your regular IT infrastructure then off you go

 

HI, How are you finding the performance when searching and playing the footage on a Synology server? The reason I ask is because a system like Hickvision tends to struggle when searching for footage and it's not straight forward when trying to find and then download the footage. On the other hand in one of the trust schools we use a system called Avigilon and it's much more reliable, fast and easy to find and export the footage. It's based on a high spec Dell server

 

Thanks in advance for your reply.