Hello all,

I am working on a large residential project where we are building a total of 4 homes on a 40 acre lot.

The first home is large, 5500sq/ft (single story, non-rectangular with lots of inset areas) and the other 3 are identical smaller traditional rectangular homes (1200sq/ft ea). The large home is roughly 1200 feet away from the large home, and they will be networked via a wireless bridge rated for 1.5gb speed.

By my first estimation at the number of cameras, I’m arriving at 40-48 cameras. That’s approx. 24 for the big house, and 8/ea. for the 3 smaller homes.

For simplicity, I’d like to make them all the same (ie 4K/8MP outdoor IP67 dome cameras). I’ve had a good run with Amcrest. They are cheap, and work quite well based on my experience. Any other suggestions at under $100 USD/ea.?

I’ve been a long-time Blue Iris home user (8ch), but feel Blue Iris will require a very beefy server to reliably operate that many cameras, whereas I feel an NVR would be best suited. It may not have all of the features of BI, but its single-purpose HW, and probably will require less maintenance over time. They will be monitored remotely, so reliability is important. What do you think? Any recommendations for a 48ch capable NVR?

I can either run 2 NVR’s, each with 24 channels, one for the big house, and the other for the 3x smaller homes or a single 48ch NVR centralized. Any reason to do 2 NVRs vs. a single NVR? I can only think of one–the weak link being the wireless bridge. If this goes down, I loose access to the cameras/recordings. The tradeoff is needing to manage two NVRs.

Any other approaches you can think of or problems you can anticipate me having? Any feedback/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

thank you.