Looking for IP Security Camera System with people (not facial) recognition

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Hello,

I am looking for a 16 Cameras IP Security system with the following features:

  • Reliable people recognition (not facial, just differentiate between people vs animal)
  • 2-ways audio on at least 4 cameras, audio recording on all cameras,
  • Any motion detection and recording, or recording after people recognition
  • Night vision
  • Extremely reliable wireless or wired with power over ethernet,
  • Instant notification to smart phone.
  • Half of the cameras will be outdoor
  • No monthly/yearly subscription
  • About $1K (with 8 cameras to start) if possible, if more than $1K please recommend anyway.

If all features above are not available, a system that allows me to write custom software would be great. Many thanks for your time and thought.
 

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IMHO, best cameras currently for night vision are those with 1/1.8" sensors, such as the Dahua IPC-T5442T-xx, these run $150-180 each, so 16 cameras will blow out your budget entirely. they have audio monitoring/recording, but you'd need something else for talking back. they are waterproof so can be used indoors or outdoors. These are PoE cameras, IMHO, there's no such thing as extremely reliable wireless, and there's certainly no such thing as wireless power.
 

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Read the Cliff Notes in the blue bar at the top of the page. You don't know what you don't know yet.

1 - Object recognition is possible with some basic AI built into the camera or running on the VMS.
2 - Two way audio is a gimmick and usually simplex like a walkie talkie and not full duplex like on a phone.
3 - See number 1. I use DeepStack AI with Blue Iris and it is set to record 24/7 plus detect people and vehicles which get marked as such.
4 - Night vision takes the proper relationship between sensor size and resolution.
5 - Wireless is inherently unreliable and if the camera requires power it is not actually wireless. If you can get a power connection to the camera you can get a network cable to it instead for PoE and true reliability.
6 - "Instant" just isn't going to happen due to inherent delays on both your LAN and cell networks.
7 - Outdoor cameras are not a problem at all.
8 - Any cloud based system is unreliable plus you surrender your ownership of the video to the cloud services. Local storage is the only way to go which requires either an NVR or VMS.
9 - You'll be very hard pressed to assemble a system like this that is truly effective at that price. Decent cameras are in the $150-$250 range. Add in an NVR or VMS plus a PoE switch and hard drives for the system and $2000 is much more realistic.
 
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