Please bear with me. Volunteer at a food bank. Two sites: food bank with an existing building and new building under construction (ready July?), affiliated thrift shop in a strip mall. Existing food bank has 16-channel ARCVision system; nothing at thrift shop. Earlier asked to expand food bank system to accommodate 2 buildings; just now asked to put in system at thrift shop ("now!") due to spate of shoplifting.
Want decent systems at both sites, Fairly computer knowledge-able (for a home user), but just learning surveillance stuff. Ideally, would move ARCVision to thrift shop and put new in food bank. But can't leave food bank w/o coverage for the time it will take to put together and install new system. I hate to install a "throw-away" system at thrift store, but not sure there's much choice; is below reasonable?
1. Lorex $600-$700 (6-8 camera) from Costco as interim thrift shop system.
2. Build new system to handle food bank buildings (later thread).
3. Move ARCVision system from food bank to thrift store.
ARCVision: 16-channel NVR (ARC-NVRH04) with 7 x 3MP domes (ARC-IPDH18) inside and 3 x 3MP bullets (ARC-IPBH03) outside.
Questions:
- Are the Costco Lorex systems good enough to ID folks in a typical interior retail environment? low light is secondary since immediate concern is shoplifting not out-of-hours break-in. can improve outside later.
- Will the current Arcvision system in the food bank be much of an improvement over the Lorex? i.e., would moving it to the thrift store be worth the effort?
-- considered keeping ARCVision at the food bank but we'll likely need more than 16 cameras between the two buildings, plus I think we can do better with something like Dahua bullets & NVR (or BlueIris).
- Is there a better way to address this?
[Update 3/27/18: thinking about it, would it be better to spend the $600-700 on a Dahua NVR and a few Dahua turrets from Empiretecandy for thrift shop so as to have compatibility with future food bank system? could build up from there rather than adding more to a disparate mix.]
Really appreciate any guidance.
Want decent systems at both sites, Fairly computer knowledge-able (for a home user), but just learning surveillance stuff. Ideally, would move ARCVision to thrift shop and put new in food bank. But can't leave food bank w/o coverage for the time it will take to put together and install new system. I hate to install a "throw-away" system at thrift store, but not sure there's much choice; is below reasonable?
1. Lorex $600-$700 (6-8 camera) from Costco as interim thrift shop system.
2. Build new system to handle food bank buildings (later thread).
3. Move ARCVision system from food bank to thrift store.
ARCVision: 16-channel NVR (ARC-NVRH04) with 7 x 3MP domes (ARC-IPDH18) inside and 3 x 3MP bullets (ARC-IPBH03) outside.
Questions:
- Are the Costco Lorex systems good enough to ID folks in a typical interior retail environment? low light is secondary since immediate concern is shoplifting not out-of-hours break-in. can improve outside later.
- Will the current Arcvision system in the food bank be much of an improvement over the Lorex? i.e., would moving it to the thrift store be worth the effort?
-- considered keeping ARCVision at the food bank but we'll likely need more than 16 cameras between the two buildings, plus I think we can do better with something like Dahua bullets & NVR (or BlueIris).
- Is there a better way to address this?
[Update 3/27/18: thinking about it, would it be better to spend the $600-700 on a Dahua NVR and a few Dahua turrets from Empiretecandy for thrift shop so as to have compatibility with future food bank system? could build up from there rather than adding more to a disparate mix.]
Really appreciate any guidance.
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