Okay, so it sounds like I can simply get three basic desktop computers for the viewing cubicles and then handle the privacy issues via network and software settings. For the master terminal in my wife's office, will the QNAP TS-531-X-2G be sufficient or will that only be useful as a NAS device to store the video files? It looks like
Blue Iris requires a more robust system but this QNAP device has a built in camera control software.
Something like an inexpensive all-in-one would probably work well (though some other disadvantages to them generally), or you could serve inexpensive terminals from a central server, or use tablets or whatever. You don't need much to just view things on the front end. On the back end, you don't need BI to do it. Though it's a good program and you might want to at some later point. If that version of the QNAP provides VMS-type functions it should do it.
At the most simple level you can work directly from the cameras themselves assuming that you go with reasonably functional cameras. Basically, it would go as follows:
- Set up an admin account on each of the therapy room cameras.
- Set up a viewing account on each camera (either one-to-one or multiple-to-one).
- On your wife's machine, set up whatever VMS that she'll use to access/control cameras and display things (single or 4-up tiled view or whatever).
- On the cubicle devices, set up some cam viewing program with just one of the cameras available or a browser pointing to a specific IP for a given camera(s) (or however you want to limit it or, alternately, make it more flexible any-to-any).
Done. In principle at least at a simple level. You'd need to harden things up on the client devices and network to restrict access as appropriate, for example, to keep someone from changing things on the device to view some other cam (don't know how supervised that may be), restrict access by others on your net as necessary, restrict Internet access in/out of the cams, etc., etc. How you want to do things beyond that like recording will affect how some of that needs to be done.