Power Outage Best Outdoor Ip Surveillance 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.

Best Surveillance system, and you need the license.

Good value for the money. Using this unit to power a PoE switch and several IP cameras. Short depth makes install easier.

I'm adding PoE IP cameras from the soffits of my garage and needed an easy way to power 4 of them without having to pull 4 cables up through a hard to pull chase way. Added this in the attic where there's a single outlet and - instantly all 4 cameras have power. Space is non-insulated so this has performed fine at -20F outside so far - will see how it does in the summer heat - but so far very happy with the performance and the price point. Connects to a 5 port TP-Link Omada switch inside that tags all traffic with the video camera VLAN and works great!

I use this to power PoE IP cameras and it just works. I was pleasantly surprised to find it has an internal power supply and not an external brick!

I had a power outage and the unit performed perfectly.

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.

Will be so beneficial in a power outage. Software is awesome.