— Setting up an IP-Surveillance system — Quick Checklist —
Setting up an IP-Surveillance system — Quick checklist
Define your surveillance needs
- Draw a plan of your installation
- Select points of interest to view (area of coverage)
- Position each camera — define what you want to be able to capture with each camera
- Consider environment — light conditions
- Consider cabling to cameras
- Position the recording server
Select network cameras and/or video encoder
- Image quality requirements — resolution, compression and frame rate
- Light sensitivity and lens selection (re: camera)
- Outdoor / indoor, fixed / PTZ / dome camera
- Consider needs such as Power over Ethernet (PoE), video motion detection, audio . . .
- Housing, mounting and other accessories
- Buy and try — buy one camera to test its quality
Select hardware components
- Additional switches (PoE, wireless options)
- Additional light sources
- Power supplies and eventually UPS
- Server for video management software
- Hard drives (local disks, NAS, etc.)
Select video management software
- Select a software package for your required functionality
- Purchase licenses that fit the number of cameras
- Specify image quality and frame rate requirements for each camera
- IP address range for cameras and servers
- Calculate hard disk usage
- Configure your cameras and their recording settings
- Configure video motion detection settings
- Grant user access and authentications
Operations and maintenance
- Check recorded events for all your cameras
- Check motion detection settings again
- Check hard disk free space and eventually adjust recording options
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