Small Business Camera Recommendations

[TechDude98]

Looking for a good value solution (~$200 per camera) for my parents commercial building (18,000 sqft). They have a very old NightOwl analog system with bullet cameras for the interior of my dad's auto shop that we're going to be upgrading as well as adding cameras to the exterior of the entire building.

I'm an IT Systems Administrator so I'm fine installing a VMS on a separate machine and using a Cisco PoE switch to power the new system. I'm going to implement VLANs and subnetting to ensure the cameras are walled off from the rest of the network.

I've looked into Hanwha "A" series dome cameras (mainly the ANV-L7082R) as the value option but am not opposed to Hik/Dahua.

We have 8 existing interior cameras that will be expanded to include 7 additional outdoor cameras. Our climate doesn't have much rain, averaging 14 inches per year.

Footage will be stored for 14 days.

 

[Flintstone61]

The specs show a 1/2.8 CMOS and a pixel resolution of 2560 x 1440. about 4 megapixels. A 1/2.8 Cmos works well for a 2 Megapixel camera for outdoors. You could getaway with the Hanwha in a lit, indoor setting.

A better outdoor lowlight 4 megapixel camera with a 1/1.8 CMOS sensor is on Andy's website. it's a popular solution with a Varifocal lens.
EmpireTech IPC-T54IR-ZE-S3 1/1.8" CMOS 4MP IR Starlight 2.7mm–12mm Var
Which is good for Dialing the camera in for best view.

 

[Flintstone61]

Here is an older image of that camera.

 

[Flintstone61]

if your dead set on domes
here is a fixed lens version

EmpireTech IPC-D54IR-ASE-S3 1/1.8" CMOS 4MP IR Fixed-focal Vandal-proo

4MP 1/1.8" CMOS Built-in IR LED, and the max. illumination distance is 50 m Deep learning algorithm Alarm: 1 in, 1 out; audio: 1 in, 1 out Supports max. 512 GB Micro SD card, built-in MIC IP67 and IK10 protection SMD 3.0

empiretech01.com

 

[TechDude98]

The specs show a 1/2.8 CMOS and a pixel resolution of 2560 x 1440. about 4 megapixels. A 1/2.8 Cmos works well for a 2 Megapixel camera for outdoors. You could getaway with the Hanwha in a lit, indoor setting.

A better outdoor lowlight 4 megapixel camera with a 1/1.8 CMOS sensor is on Andy's website. it's a popular solution with a Varifocal lens.
EmpireTech IPC-T54IR-ZE-S3 1/1.8" CMOS 4MP IR Starlight 2.7mm–12mm Var
Which is good for Dialing the camera in for best view.

Thanks for the information!