 Tom here for more systems and we're gonna talk about small business camera systems There's a lot of options out there and I'm gonna talk about you know This little setup right here why we chose this and some of the parameters around it It is not exclusively the one we sell but we sell different solutions to fit different client needs So if you want to learn more about me or my company head over to Lawrence systems.com If you like to hire sure project There's a hires button up at the top if you'd like to support the channel in other ways There's affiliate links down below for products and services and discounts and deals for things We talk about on this channel including I'll have a description of all the parts used in this particular setup so I am well aware that the Ubiquity videos I did were very popular But unfortunately unify discontinued their self-hosted software. They I have a video on that I'll leave a link to they discontinued support for it. It seems to be one of the most frequently Asked questions of well, we really want a camera system But what happened to you to unify now? We really like the unified cameras We thought they had a great system and they moved everything over to protect which does require their cloud-hosted system as opposed to the one Where you could build it yourself because of that we've had to for many the small business We offered when they needed larger camera systems We've continued to support the installs we have done in the past with unify but in going forward since the software Bio unifies own words is no longer being updated. We've had to look at other solutions So that brings me to the Synology real link combination now I really like the Synology surveillance station. I'll leave a link to the video. I did on the software. It's actually really nice software the Parameters for this particular client was no recurring fees. No paying for cloud hosting etc. Etc. No cloud management They wanted everything self-contained self-managed and that's perfectly fine. That's what this build out is about and Including the from the PoE switch to the Synology. Yes, there's a license You do need for the Synology surveillance station, but they're one-time license fees that are transferable So it is not tied specifically to the camera It's tied to the quantity of cameras that you have attached to your Synology surveillance station set up and I covered that in a video But just so I'm always clear on it once you install these licenses They are transferable personality. They've sent me that as an email and they do not care What camera they only care about quantity so that does fit the bill for that I'm aware of some of the other higher-end systems, but many of them, you know Do have some levels of subscription support services with it. So we're gonna focus on this one right here today now these real-length cameras and They've been pretty good to us. So they're five megapixels HD 4x optical zoom indoor outdoor cameras for 8999 they've been really reasonably priced and our failure rate on them is not zero But it's pretty reasonable and I see that for as many of we installed I think we're at about a 1% failure rate, which is actually high in my opinion for cameras But we don't know if they were fluke of the market or what in some of the past since all's we did we had them DOA in the testing period like out of the box setting them up They just didn't work now They were awesome working with Amazon real link and sent them back and got a replacement no big deal and we had One die in the field, but it died in a weird way It got half a picture and we rebooted the camera and always came out the half a picture So we've had a couple die out of the maybe couple hundred we installed Which is to me a high number at 2% but not end of the world high number for the price And we generally keep a handful in stock and it's not that big of a deal except when they're out in the field and installed That's one of the reasons you see this big mess in front of you is all the testing we do these actually have been running for several days and recording we make sure we do a little bit of burn in because Specifically these ones are gonna be mounted up high Sometimes it requires lift rentals to mount some of these cameras or high ladders and getting in places You don't want to have to replace them out in the field The ones we've installed out in the field and of course they're exposed to weather and everything else They've survived. Well, at least, you know, because we only been selling these for about a year now They've survived a Michigan winter and they've survived some Michigan summers and now I'm covering them I've been using them for a little while, but Part of the thing I like to do is review things over time and I may cover and go back and cover one of the installs We did last year. I'm gonna be going onsite to do a video for it to show a year later But how the cameras are holding up because that's what really matters now if you install them today and they work You want to know did they work after a year of a weather exposure or did they fail? That's a better metric in my opinion So we are confident enough that we are still putting these up because besides the couple We've had to go bad the overalls been good on them and the picture quality is reasonably good now Synology supports a massive amount of Cameras like they're the variety of support has been amazing. So you can mix and match We chose all these real links for this particular job, but yes, you can mix and match cameras Throw a few WD purple drives in there. So these are the drives. We chose to go inside of here the Amazon 16 port PoE gigabit ethernet unmanaged PoE switch I do like a lot of the unified PoE switches, but these neck gear ones are kind of cool and They are solid we've put in a handful of these are unmanaged But it's not something that matters in this particular case because we build out and slice up a separate network Just for these cameras. So they're not on the shared network with everything else There's a firewall that they have and we split off the traffic So there's a dedicated camera network and that's where this will all be living is on that dedicated camera network So all the cameras will talk to Synology and if you're not familiar with how Synology is set up They do have dual network interfaces on this DS 918 plus so those dual interfaces Allow for us and I think got a picture of the back because I don't have an easy way to show it to you But there we go dual interfaces So you stick one interface with all the cameras and you can put the other for an interface on the land Or you can just poke a firewall rule through there depending how you want to configure it But the cameras aren't completely separated land so a managed switch and VLANs just aren't necessary It is split up at the firewall level ahead of this switch So once again, it's just a matter of keeping all the cameras on the same network and it's POE The little switches we have here are some TP link POEs And that's because we got to run a underground cable and to a couple cameras on the other side of this building We're putting them on so there wasn't they didn't want to pay to run every single run from the next year switch So we have a couple TP link switches in here Which is these ones here and they're just gonna be at kind of the outline building after we do a long one Really long cable run to get it over there So it comes off of the next year goes over to these and there's gonna be a couple cameras on each side So yes, we could have ran direct cable all the way But when you're doing burial cable, they didn't really want to pay for all the runs being like I said This is comes down to meeting with client budget client expectations to get things done There's always someone says why only sell the top of the line Super expensive access cameras, which don't get me wrong access makes really nice equipment But this project would have been out of their budget and they simply wouldn't have gone with it So it is about, you know client expectations client needs so finally all this is set up to these Synology of vanilla station. Let's actually look at the cameras now so here's what they look like and I took this one here and put the stream quality a little bit higher and You can kind of hear I hear the noise It does have audio on these cameras. So this allows us to Record all the audio, which was another request that the client had they want to be able to hear what's going on in some of the Areas this is going kind of like a industrial type site So they're able to go back playback audio because it can matter on the machines that are running if they hear something That occurs before an incident that is something important to them and That you can easily quickly access things a lot of people ask me about what about you know x y z system Well, the problem with some of the other systems, especially the single drive systems Which like the unified protect is the amount of storage you need and it's so knowledge You surveillance station has four drives in it So we build a rate array with some redundancy and it can send out notifications if there's a failure on there And this gives them the storage room with these drives for the number of days that's actually a calculation at the workout with the client how many days are you going to need and Build the storage appropriately of course you got to ask how much redundancy do you want in the more redundancy because the data's Maybe more values them matters a lot to how much storage you got to buy again And how many of those drives are paired or you just want to read zero everything that comes down to once again Some of the design and planning But as you can see this real link here, and maybe you can see what's in here talking about BGP Let's go ahead and just grab a snapshot real quick out of it and we're gonna go ahead and download the snapshot and I see there can I zoom here you can see well We can read the signatures from the IT Pro TV Christmas card that I have sit here Read the talk about BGP and everything else and you can see it's quite good in terms of resolution and quality that The cameras have we've been really happy with it matter of fact. We can probably point it more towards the kitchen over here And these do have that zoom See if I can zoom in a little more Kitchen's a little bit of a mess. You can see the firewall. Let's see if we can Get it zoomed in a little bit more and we'll grab a snapshot of these cameras Snapshot pull this up and See let's look here Well, you can see the kind bars the pepper you can probably even recognize what hot sauces are on the table from across the room So I'm gonna say these cameras for $89. You can see our fry daddy and our toaster oven here You can see these are pretty good for the price. We can talk about a camera. That's within a good budget, but also a Reasonable good quality these real lakes have really hit the mark I know people like some of the other brands and you can choose a completely different brand a camera with this and it'll work fine But like I said, the list of support honest analogies been great now our overall because now we've been deploying many technologies I've been very happy with it. Our clients have been very happy with it They do have the ability once we map the firewall. They have their quick connect They have their phone apps so you can view these from the phone. They have reasonably easy I think software to access. I mean, I will like I said in beginning hats off to unify They did a really great job on building a nicer interface for the camera system But the analogy is pretty reasonable and I guess that I did a more in-depth review that I can link to if you want to watch that video on the analogy now The other last little part I will talk about here is when we do the deployment and I'll jump to the overhead right here is Yes, it does look kind of messy and just so you can see the type of ends on these They do support separate if you wanted to power them not POE like with the adapters with these cameras But we generally are gonna do POE and they got the little twist locks on them if you have the right ends to come the other side We're gonna seal these really good And be using these these are the other end what goes on these twist locks So when these go in these got little gaskets and everything So even though the camera I mounted on the outside here with the mounting bracket It protrudes through into the building So yes, they seal really nice because I thought at least mention next people You know some of the cheaper cameras don't always come with a good way to seal it these do these come with a little rubber part to put through you crimp the end on and Pretty good. So my my overall is really cameras for for being less than a hundred dollars a camera with a 4x optical zoom they're pretty solid in terms of Build quality and functionality and like I said, we haven't had that many go bad Overall, so it's not been not been that bad of a problem with and they do have if you are fine with a fixed Focal zoom. They're about hmm. $50 less. I think I think about $50 less. You can get the ones with fixed focal zoom We really like going with the optical zoom because well Because then you got to buy wide or buy more zoomed in ones That can be a challenge because a client doesn't necessarily know you got to work with them when you're doing the planning phase But when you buy the optical zoom ones if they go can you widen that view a little bit? Or can you bring that view a little bit closer most of time? We set them all to the widest and then bring them in as needed when we actually do the deployments for the clients And it's it's been really handy to be able to do that so they can bring it in and go Okay, I needed that tighter view on that one But you know 4x optical is a pretty reasonable range They do have some ones that are higher and like I said You can also do the mix and matching of these where you put different cameras in different areas based on the needs of the Client and based on you know how the job works out so my overall like I said, we've deployed quite a few of these They fit the budget really well the clients like them the usability We've had extremely good reliability out of the Synology Someone will always bring up the question of the Synology and the power brick issue I've never done a Synology review with someone doesn't bring it up and We have had zero of these fail I believe Synology if I'm not mistaken used to build the power bricks internal with some of their older models I guess those were prior to my using of Synology ones that cause some problems But our impression of these with the external bricks has been none of them have failed on us at all of all the deployments We've done and we've done a couple camera jobs a little bit bigger than this on some bigger Synologies They have a lot of offerings on that they even have one That goes a step further in terms of an even higher performance Synology system Which it has some type of recognition of objects and things like that I haven't had a chance to review any of those yet But these smaller like this DS 918 plus has been a great performer for a job this size And like I said the nice thing is if they decide they want to triple or double the cameras We can do one of two things put another Synology in or chance for the licenses and drives and make a bigger Synology To handle even larger volumes of cameras and traffic that they want there or if their storage needs change There's always the option of Synology of expanding and moving They have archiving options for storage so there's there's kind of a lot of expandability options I think surveillance station is a just really nice feature with Synology Plus all the other little things that you can get with it. It's been it's been pretty cool with these little nvrs Because they're more than an nvr to be able to do things with but that's my thoughts on this If you're looking for a budget camera system this setup right here I'll leave links below to the kit that we built with this is one We've been really happy with and I'm going to do some follow-up videos on this because we actually have when we built with a This right here plus site to site to get it to the other side of the building and There's too much interference on this particular location to do a site to site That's why we have the project's going to require some direct burial cable to be trenched and put in but Overall that it does work really well even if you do break this down over a site to site All right, like I said leaps below to everything else and thanks And thank you for making it to the end of the video If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up If you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon If you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out If you'd like to hire us head over to laurancesystems.com fill out our contact page And let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums.laurancesystems.com Where we can carry on the discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general Even suggestions for new videos. 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