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Good plan, atleast these are officially supported by plenty of the big brand NVR systems so you can expand as you wish

I'd be quite curious exactly how the Lens causes this issue, surely you could just enable an audio adjustment in the software, seeing as using a different lens makes the issue go away is the SDK actually delaying the video stream as it's processed?

They need to hurry up and share info on these!

When people are paying for the power and having their internet hammered... bad idea your BEST idea is if your houses are close enough... Run wireless Camera's, beef up the antenna, store it yourself. DVR's are always a crap idea, NVR is what you want, can I suggest you look at community funding for this before you spend a cent? if they won't pay for it, why waste your time, even if their words lead you to believe they care.

I'm a bit confused why you're so keen for Cost effective camera's when you've run cat 7! there may be camera's that are that cheap and do PoE but I'd not want to touch them (maybe hunt for a Dahua, I believe there are some on special for $165 at the moment, do a forum search) you can also run a 12V PoE injector over short distances if you get stuck on that one.

will that be at a 200% price rise? will they not actually allow you to run the camera' at the full 5mp resolution, if you do will it be at like 5fps!? I have a few weeks to make a decision where to go so maybe they'll come to the party, maybe we'll get lucky and they'll do the panamorph as well (so the pixels are in more useful positions) Thanks for the heads up!

I'd go the Geo anyday! not impressed by what you get from Mobotix only reason I'd not go Geo is if your NVR does not support displaying of the De-warped views OR you have a location that has greatly differing light amounts, at which point I'd just go multiple 100 degree camera's

I may have to stoop to this unit, really want a 5mp unit though.... covering such a large area really make sense to get the pixel density up.. Speaking with a few experts in the 360 field they've brought up one really good reason to avoid it, a single 360 will not be able to adjust for the various lighting conditions (we have sunlight coming through some of the doors into our warehouses, so lighting conditions can vary greatly) I really liked the two other 360 degree options recommended by Milestone, but the WDR issue would need to be tested before going too far, Milestone's suggestion of looking at the Immervision len's was a good one, they "bend" the image into the sensor slighly differently giving you more pixels further away from the camera, see here: http://www.immervision.com/en/security/security_panomorph_lenses.php the only issue is that again, with such a large area, and in the case of our business we don't need massive frame rates, instead we want pixels, so we'd want a 5mp sensor in there, and the "current" version of that immersion lens that's $600-800 by itself depending on who you ask, only supports 1.3-2mp (they say) the 5mp one is listed as existing but no-one will tell me a price!! so rather than getting your $600-800 fisheye you're then stuck with a $500 camera and a $800+ dollar lens!!! for $1300 I can buy a LOT of camera and a LOT of storage (Dahua for $300 each, HDD"s for our storage are $200 for 4tb) the other direction is the Grandeye, getting a price out of anyone is proving quite hard : http://www.oncamgrandeye.com/45-grandeye.html

This gets even better!!! the dewarping plugin ONLY works with Corp/Ent well, this camera is whipped straight off the interesting list.

While I'm sure there are some certifications you could throw money at just like comms cabling, security stuff is pretty easy... I do suggest you play around with a few systems before going for full on deployments though.

a Bump on this one, any of you guys able to show screen shots of shared views with all angles of the 360 degree de-warped? what the cheapest 5mp solution that does this, are you guys still playing with this? I don't want any of our managers to have to play with the fake 360 degree PTZ stuff?