Remote Internet Viewable Surveillance System

A customer recently contacted us with the following pre-sales questions while planning a surveillance system:

We are seeking to purchase a system with the following parameters:

1. Remote viewable

2. High quality – but balanced against bandwidth

3. Initially 4 indoor and 4 outdoor cameras, expandable to 16, all hardwired

4. Area coverage approximately 4 acres

5. Not geovision or pc server based. Please advise if an nvr has any benefits when the system is primarily for live viewing eg does it have a purpose in throttling back the bandwidth in multiple cameras? Or is it principally a high end storage media?

6. Assume no existing network cabling to piggyback on

7. Assume wireless not suitable

8. Remote PTZ capabilities needed

Not looking for a quote but some direction to start developing our system. Email preferred initially, then we can talk. This is a serious inquiry.

CCTV Camera Pros responded with the following information:

Thank You for contacting CCTV Camera Pros and for the opportunity to earn your business. See answers to your questions below:

1. Remote viewable

Both of these recorders are remote viewable. One is a DVR and one is an NVR:

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/Surveillance-DVRs-JPEG-s/93.htm

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/Network-Video-Recorder-s/299.htm

2. High quality – but balanced against bandwidth

The NVR will give you higher overall quality and yes you can throttle the bandwidth of each camera for remote viewing. The DVR does not allow you to throttle.

3. Initially 4 indoor and 4 outdoor cameras, expandable to 16, all hardwired

If you are more interested in the IP based system (NVR), then please take a look at these IP cameras:

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/IP-Network-Camera-p/zavio-f210a.htm

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/Outdoor-Infrared-IP-Camera-p/zavio-f521e.htm

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/IP-PTZ-Camera-p/ip-v97111.htm

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/Outdoor-IP-PTZ-Camera-p/ip-v97151.htm

If you are more interested in the analog CCTV camera system, then take a look at these CCTV cameras:

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/Varifocal-Dome-Camera-p/dpro-460vf9.htm

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/IR-Security-Camera-p/bipro-540l4.htm

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/PTZ-CCTV-Camera-p/ptz-9480×10.htm

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/Outdoor-PTZ-Security-Camera-p/ptz-w470a.htm

4. Area coverage approximately 4 acres

5. Not Geovision or NUUO pc server based. Please advise if an NVR has any benefits when the system is primarily for live viewing eg does it have a purpose in throttling back the bandwidth in multiple cameras? Or is it principally a high end storage media?

We do highly recommend our NUUO PC based DVR, but we understand that some customers do not want a windows based system so we have our stand alone DVR and NVR solutions mentioned above. The main advantage of an NVR is that it uses IP cameras which are 100% digital so picture quality is better. Also it can support megapixel resolution cameras, while CCTV DVRs can only support up to 704 x 480 resolution (also known as D1 resolution).

If you change your mind and consider a PC based system, please check out these videos:

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/NUUO-Surveillance-Systems-s/296.htm#videos

6. Assume no existing network cabling to piggyback on

This is fine for either solution. The CCTV system will use Siamese coax cable like this:

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/RG59-Siamese-CCTV-Cable-s/259.htm

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/CCTV-Security-Camera-Cables-s/258.htm

The IP system will use CAT-5 like this:

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/CAT5E-Patch-Cable-p/cat5e-100.htm

https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/CCTV-Equipment-Cable-p/cat-5-cable-1.htm

7. Assume wireless not suitable

8. Remote PTZ capabilities needed

Either system can support PTZ controls. The PTZ controls on the IP based NVR and IP cameras are easier to setup and to use. Also the remote controlling of PTZs on the IP camera system is much smoother and better responding.

Please let us know if we can help further.

Sincerely.

-Mike