Hello everyone. I have been poking around and asking questions for the last week or two trying to work up a half decent video system for my store. This is what I have come up with so far and would love any input from more experience people!
Cameras - Hikvision DS-2CD2032-I with the 4mm lense seems to be a pretty good all around camera from the reading I have done so far. I don't know if I would really require much else in cameras. I don't care if they are visible or not, or worry about vanadium - just watching for theft. I plan to run all of these over cat5e PoE.
I plan to have one watching each of the two gates into my storage yard.
Two watching the storage yard out back of my shop.
Two watching the merchadise and rental traffic supplies on the north side of my building.
And one watching my front parking lot.
So 7 cameras out side.
Then 6 in the front sales part of my store. 4 watching merchandise and 2 watching the tills (I might be able to get away with one, but not sure. The two cash registers are stilling about 6ft apart and I would have the camera mounted ~15ft strait above them on the ceiling. I would like enough claritiy to see what is going on).
1 watching my back receiving doors from the inside.
and 1 watching my small format printing department.
So I'm at 15 cameras total.
And to provide PoE I am looking at one of these:
WS-POE-16-48v120w 16 port Poe injector
I saw this company recommended on a post in the Accessories sub-forum.
And for the switch to run all this through:
TP-LINK TL-SG1024D 10/100/1000Mbps Unmanaged 24-Port Gigabit.
I figure the 24 port switch gives me some room to grow and I can always get another 8 port PoE injector to add more cameras.
As for the NVR I am going to do a customer built PC running Win7 Pro x64, and Blue Iris. i5 or i7 CPU - use the onboard video, 8 gigs of ram, and a 4TB WD Purple HDD.
So at this point I have a few questions:
To link the switch to the PoE injector do I use standard Ethernet cables or cross over cables?
Also the cameras say they use a max of 7 watts each with IR on. That PoE injector will deliver 7.5 watts to each port. Will that work just fine or is better to have more of a clearance between what the manufacture says the camera will draw and what the PoE will deliver?
And the switch I'm am looking at is gigabit (mostly for the one leg that goes to the NVR). but the PoE is only 100Mbps. Will they work together correctly?
Does the specs on the computer look adequate for what I am trying to do?
Will that camera do everything I am trying to do or should I go for different camera in a few spots? If one style of camera works for all 15 I figure its easier to configure?
Then of course any comments/concerns/helpful information would be greatly appropriated!
Thanks!
Cameras - Hikvision DS-2CD2032-I with the 4mm lense seems to be a pretty good all around camera from the reading I have done so far. I don't know if I would really require much else in cameras. I don't care if they are visible or not, or worry about vanadium - just watching for theft. I plan to run all of these over cat5e PoE.
I plan to have one watching each of the two gates into my storage yard.
Two watching the storage yard out back of my shop.
Two watching the merchadise and rental traffic supplies on the north side of my building.
And one watching my front parking lot.
So 7 cameras out side.
Then 6 in the front sales part of my store. 4 watching merchandise and 2 watching the tills (I might be able to get away with one, but not sure. The two cash registers are stilling about 6ft apart and I would have the camera mounted ~15ft strait above them on the ceiling. I would like enough claritiy to see what is going on).
1 watching my back receiving doors from the inside.
and 1 watching my small format printing department.
So I'm at 15 cameras total.
And to provide PoE I am looking at one of these:
WS-POE-16-48v120w 16 port Poe injector
I saw this company recommended on a post in the Accessories sub-forum.
And for the switch to run all this through:
TP-LINK TL-SG1024D 10/100/1000Mbps Unmanaged 24-Port Gigabit.
I figure the 24 port switch gives me some room to grow and I can always get another 8 port PoE injector to add more cameras.
As for the NVR I am going to do a customer built PC running Win7 Pro x64, and Blue Iris. i5 or i7 CPU - use the onboard video, 8 gigs of ram, and a 4TB WD Purple HDD.
So at this point I have a few questions:
To link the switch to the PoE injector do I use standard Ethernet cables or cross over cables?
Also the cameras say they use a max of 7 watts each with IR on. That PoE injector will deliver 7.5 watts to each port. Will that work just fine or is better to have more of a clearance between what the manufacture says the camera will draw and what the PoE will deliver?
And the switch I'm am looking at is gigabit (mostly for the one leg that goes to the NVR). but the PoE is only 100Mbps. Will they work together correctly?
Does the specs on the computer look adequate for what I am trying to do?
Will that camera do everything I am trying to do or should I go for different camera in a few spots? If one style of camera works for all 15 I figure its easier to configure?
Then of course any comments/concerns/helpful information would be greatly appropriated!
Thanks!
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