Where do we start, if you are an elctrical company battling to find enough work to keep yourself busy or like me want to expand my options. You already have all the tools, teams and installation experience. the high end installations are worth the effort. IF you do entry level kit installations you going to be dealing with the "you are expensive" customers, leave those for the armed response companies. Focus on the customers who want the job done right and are prepared to spend the money to make sure it is right.
Lets start with the ISP (internet service provider)
You want to make sure your internet speed, pings etc are going to keep up with the traffic.
Depending on the equipment you plan to install, a 720P or 1080P kits with 8 cameras, a fibre 20 meg line wired in cat 5e will do the job, I wouldn't suggest you waste your time with these type of installations.
What these kits wont do, is be of much use if there is an intruder, the pic quality probably wont be of much use for any form of identification, unless a few consideration are taken into account, which I will go into.
A few tips:
Get the ISP fibre router installed as close to the CCTV installation as possible. The shorter the runs the better.
Make sure you have a fibre line and your NVR or at least the switch has a fibre port or ports to link to other switches. The first thing the tech support is going to tell you if you have jitter or it looks like you watching a slide show, is that your network is the problem, so get this right. IF you are not sure, just get a network person ( just about every youngster will be able to assist especially if they are into gaming ) or they will know someone.
Just be careful working with the fibre cable, the bending radius and how you pull the cable is very important.
I have been doing my homework on fibre connection and realized it is not as difficult as everyone makes it out to be, in fact I am going to teach my guy how to do it, he has a much steadier hand and the patients. With the right tools it takes about 5 minutes tops.
Cat 5e was considered OK for any installation for short 10/100 and maybe even 1000 Mbps runs, then everyone suggested cat 6 to future proof you install, well I would suggest, like car EV car chargers, technology is moving so fast and you are going to blink and fibre will be the new cat 5e.
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