Multiple Platform Ip Camera Surveillance Software

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!

The Synology Surveillance Station software is the best security camera software we have used, having tried two before this. It is more costly having to buy licenses for each camera you want to use but at least the licenses are transferrable between hardware upgrades and not bound to a specific camera's MAC Address or hardware. The software is very smooth and easy to use with advanced feature available if needed. It has otherwise been very plug-n-play switching over.

I use the IP-S to isolate small monitors from a hollow platform covered in 12x12 tiles. For various reasons, the staging area of the speakers cannot be changed. The area of the platform was acting as a boom box of its own (copious mid/low range blocks of sound) without the isolating IP-Ss. I also wanted to cant the monitors upward at a slight angle to better fill my living room, which is large and has a vaulted ceiling. The improvement is remarkable in both respects. For a minimal expenditure, I've received hundreds of dollars worth of improvement.

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.

Installed 3 of these to pass multiple channels of IP video between PCs, and they have been reliable and fast.

This is exactly what I needed to get my old surveillance camera back up and running. Thanks.

Does what I needed powering an IP camera.

I use this on multiple platform with ease. It holds the phone, Samsung Galaxy with case, well.