Recommendation for Daycare System

clanderson

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Mar 29, 2017
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My wife and I recently purchased a daycare and would like to upgrade the camera system. I have looked into several manufacturers including Lorex, Swann and Ubiquiti and also checked out building my own box. I'm a network engineer by day, however I'm still pretty green when it comes to CCTV.

Our requirements include:
  • IP cameras
  • At least 16 cameras
  • Night vision
  • 3 outdoor cameras
  • Audio would be nice, but not necessary

Any help from you folks much more experienced than I would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time!
 
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What type of NVR would I need to pair these with?
Personally I Wouldn't use any NVR just my preference nothing wrong with it ... I would get a cheap hp system with a recent i5 processor and run BI, but if you want a NVR get the same brand as your cameras so if you buy dahua cameras, get a dahua NVR ,if you get hikvision cameras get a hikvision NVR.. far as a model goes someone else will need to chime in here.
 
Personally I Wouldn't use any NVR just my preference nothing wrong with it ... I would get a cheap hp system with a recent i5 processor and run BI, but if you want a NVR get the same brand as your cameras so if you buy dahua cameras, get a dahua NVR ,if you get hikvision cameras get a hikvision NVR.. far as a model goes someone else will need to chime in here.
Thank you - that gives me a much better understanding of what's available. I wasn't aware of BI - that definitely seems like the solution for me. A decent 2U with RAID5/10 running BI sounds perfect.

Thanks again for the help! I'll keep an eye here to see if others have suggestions.
 
clanderson,

Welcome to the form!


There are legal considerations to recording audio. And the laws vary by city, county, state.

Here's some reading:
Recording audio
Too much IR
Murphy's Law

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Thank you very much for the reading; that's good stuff!

I have looked into the legality of recording audio in our center and the statutes are clear, but present some difficulties:
"It is not unlawful to intercept a wire, electronic, or oral communication when the interceptor is a party to the conversation or one of the parties to the communication has given prior consent."

So if all employees are informed that audio may be recorded for the explicit purpose of protecting the children and ensuring lawful accountability, it should be fine. However if two uninformed parties (parents, contractors, etc.) enter the recorded room without an informed party, it would not be lawful. Shaky stuff.
 
prior consent.
"Prior" consent was given - but there's a difference between the types of consent, prior notwithstanding.

"implied consent".... "informed consent"

@SysconciousAu does a good job of parsing the nuances in the post I provided earlier. (too much IR)
For "implied consent", you may be okay with a sign on the ent4rance door that informs visitors that audio recording is underway. If they open the door and enter, in some jurisdictions, that can be taken as "implied consent". But I'm not a lawyer, and my system isn't in a place of business....

You can inform your employees about audio recording. But you have to consider the moms, dads, uncles, babysitters that may visit the daycare center to pick up little johhny. For a day care center, your customers might be warmly receptive to recording things on site...

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"Prior" consent was given - but there's a difference between the types of consent, prior notwithstanding.



@SysconciousAu does a good job of parsing the nuances in the post I provided earlier. (too much IR)
For "implied consent", you may be okay with a sign on the ent4rance door that informs visitors that audio recording is underway. If they open the door and enter, in some jurisdictions, that can be taken as "implied consent". But I'm not a lawyer, and my system isn't in a place of business....

Yes, very good thoughts. I'll definitely be getting the straight and narrow specifics from our legal council. Don't want to find myself between a rock and a hard place.