My neighborhood has 4 Hikvision NVR’s locally recording cameras at four different street locations. Each location has 3to 4 cameras mounted on a pole and directly connected to an NVR at the base of the pole. Each location is connected to a Comcast modem for internet access. Viewing the live streams works fine but viewing recorded material is slow and scrubbing through time remotely is impossible. I’d like to create a centralized server setup where I can backup each local NVR and use those backups to locally scrub through video at the central location. What the requirements, considerations or alternatives for doing this?
I have a similar situation, with two locations in our little 1500' cul-de-sac neighborhood. One pole with 3 cams at the entrance and another at the cul-de-sac with 3 cameras. Right now I'm recording to a 4208 NVR in a box at both locations with a 10MB upload and 100MB download connection from Spectrum.
I'm relatively happy with the setup and use SmartPSS to manage recordings and download video as needed. Storing about 25-30 days worth of footage with 2X 4TB hard drives in each. I do have occasional times when the upload speed crawls making playback frustrating. Its a simple matter of available upload bandwidth on the cable connection.
Prior to this setup we used a cloud service -
EagleEye Networks who are the clear leader in video cloud storage, but cancelled mostly due to poor service by the local integrator. I would highly recommend you check them out. They install a simple bridge at each location, which backfeeds the stream to the cloud, and have a great web/mobile interface to manage recordings/playback