Newtothis

Wow Thanks folks I really appreciate the advice that you all gave. Over the past day or so, I have done some more research too but would any of you recommend an NVR solution for something so big? You can see how new I am to this! I totally didn't consider the fact that one guy can only see so many camera shots at a time. Do you think software analytics will be helpful in this case? Do most brands come with some kind of analysis tools like indexing or motion detection/ alarm?

Advance notice: Please don't flame me. I'm really new to this industry I've been tasked by my boss to look at building security and I hate to say it but I really don't know much about it. I came across this forum and most of the people seem to be really helpful and am wondering if any of you can answer some of my questions. Basically I've been tasked to see what options there are to add to this new building that we are going to build. I think (at this time) the idea is to have about 100+ cameras. We will probably be asking an integrator to do the job but we want to have some knowledge about it ourselves so he doesn't try to pull a fast one on us. There are so many brands out there and so many options (ie standalone/ PC etc etc). It seems that with the standalones you get a pretty good quality and it can be scaled up for 100+ cameras if you go with a high end company. However, one company that seems to have a pretty good product for PC Based systems (at least from my limited scan) is GeoVision. But according to the distributor sites it is not stackable. Does this mean that the maximum number of channels it can have is 16? Is it possible to go to 100+? And if so how would one do so? Question 2.) I listed GeoVision as an example but who are the players one would reccomend for a 100+ camera solution? Thanks