Best Surveillance Software For Ip Cameras

We have purchased two of these so far to use primarily as NVRs for a large number of IP cameras on a school campus. Licensing costs aside, Synology Surveillance Station does a really nice job making it easy to set up and scale with the number of cameras you have. We linked two together, making one the primary and the other a secondary target for recordings. Surveillance Station records direct-to-disk, and does a decent job of adjusting camera settings directly using ONVIF. We have about 50+ cameras running at resolutions from 1280x720 up to 2560x1600, some PTZ, some ceiling-mount fisheyes, mostly wide angle fixed, and everything works pretty well. We were even able to use the manual camera configuration to use some uncommon double-lens cameras. With about 26 cameras assigned to each RS422+, we see about 20-25% CPU on each on average during a typical day. We can comfortably handle 32 per unit, and supposedly up to 40 if needed. With x4 6TB drives in each set in SHR-1 (equivalent to RAID5) we have about a month or so of footage retention. The licensing is a little pricey at $50 per camera (unless you buy in bulk from some european IP camera shops...), but it is perpetual and I think worth the expense. Using two of these units, 8 cheap drives from eBay (luckily these do not suffer from the Synology whitelist) and a bunch of camera licenses, for around under $5000 I was able to build and set up a really easy to use and reliable NVR system with plenty of future expandability. 2-3 users are regularly connected on their desktops without issue.

There are lots of free applications for IP Cameras, but if you're serious about IP Surveillance you can't do better than Axis Camera Station, and the best way to acquire the licenses is from B&H.

We are a developer of command and control software and often buy various brands of IP cameras to test with our software suite. This camera was an addition late last year and we've actually deployed it on our property (mostly for testing). We cannot say enough about Axis products... this camera works as advertised and was easily integrated into our software. It is ONVIF compliant and provides crystal clear video. We are located in Florida and rarely use the defogging feature, but we would love to have self cleaning optics (a feature starting to appear on high end IP cameras) since the camera is located nearly 30 feet in the air making it difficult to clean... but that is the only thing we had in the wish it had it column. Overall a highly versatile and functional PTZ IP camera... we highly recommend this one!

Life is much better now with this piece of equipment! I have had Ubiquiti cameras for several years and have been running the Unifi NVR software to display and record them. This works but has been painful to deal with, especially when almost every update has failed, requiring me to uninstall and then reinstall the software - sometimes requiring reconfiguration. A couple of months ago I decided the Wi-Fi coverage in my 3,300 square foot, two-story home was unacceptable - even with wired access points from TP-link and ASUS. I bought a pair of Ubiquiti Unifi AC-LITE access points and set out to configure them. I found that you had to have a Unifi Controller but you could run in on Windows (as a Java app) - so I did. My Wi-Fi access got dramatically better and I even decided to add a third access point. But the Unifi Controller had to be killed and restarted about every two days. I even tried two other computers and it ran even less well on them. After waiting for this back-ordered item, it came last week. Having already used the software Controller and NVR, this was pretty familiar and I got it set up quickly. The main mistake I made was to not lock down the IP either as static or with DHCP reservation (my preferred method). Sure enough, the IP changed overnight the second night and things became disconnected! As the access points need to know where the controller is and as the cameras need to know where the NVR is, its pretty important to lock down the IP of the Cloud Key. Once I did that, this has been quite solid. Next step is to add a Unifi Security Gateway to replace my Netgear router. Im still trying to decide if I need the Pro version. I suspect I do as I have over 80 devices and a lot of DHCP reservation and port forwarding.

Best Surveillance system, and you need the license.

My IP PTZ cameras love these.

Cameras easy to use and take great pictures. I use them for hunting and for surveillance around my property. I have several cameras.

Best hard drive for surveillance use at a great price at B&H

This is one of the best cameras ever used I love the clarity. EASY TO USE PLUG AND PLAY SOFTWARE THIS IS THE BEST

I have now purchased 5 of these... easy to use and great video. If you are using video recording software such as Limelight XE, then you need to use the generic IP URL of rtsp://(your_ip_address)/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0 to get the main feed (the link is not well documented). A great IP camera for the monday.