Help me spend $20,000 (new information in post #23)

[Holbs]

dedicated 1500vac sine-wave battery backups for your NVR/Blue Iris machine, for Ubiquiti 24 port POE switch #1, for Ubiquiti 24 port POE switch #2. Gotta split POE sources between cameras incase of failure. Might as well get a Ubiquiti router to make it a ecosystem.

20 SD8 PTZ's!

If really want to go down rabbit hole, have a DJI drone on standby to fly out to investigate things. A cute little hangar for it that auto-deploys. Model railroad people & cars around it to make it look sexy.

 

[Cache450]

Funny you say that… been shopping axis today…. My jaw is still on the floor!! Spendy!

and I hate the fact that all these “bigtime” camera names have TINY sensors in them

 

[Cache450]

New Information!

Turns out, this money isnt going to go far. I found out that it is federal grant money and it requires NDAA and TAA compliance. Which includes internal chipsets. So no Dahua, hikvision, Huawei, ZTE, Hytera products. YIKES!

Now my journey begins to find NDAA and TAA compliant cameras.....

Brands so far:

• Avigilon
• Axis Communications [4]
• BCD International
• Commend
• FLIR
• iryx
• Mobotix
• Seek Thermal
• Solink
• WatchGuard
• 360 Vision Technology
• Optiview

 

[bp2008]

I don't know much about NDAA/TAA but there's a well-trusted vendor with a presence on this forum that has an NDAA section: Shop Security Cameras, Recorders & Complete Systems