Geovision 16 CH 1480 Setup

[voloftn 0]

Hi All,

 

I am new to the forum and new to building a DVR PC. However, I am a former Dell support technician building this for my business and I know my computers inside out.

 

I am going to build a custom PC with the Geovision GV-1480 16 channel, 480 FPS card. The specs for the PC are as follows:

 

-ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard

-Athlon 64 Dual Core 3800+

-1 GB Ram

-3 Western Digital 500GB HD's, 3.0/SATA, RAID 0, total 1.5 TB

-GeoForce 6800 PCIe, 256 MB Video Card, Dual DVI

-DVD Burner

-WinXP Pro

-19" Widescreen LCD w/DVI

 

In addition, I am going to purchase a Sony PTZ camera:

[edit by mod - link removed due to non retail pricing]

 

Does CCTVSpecialty.com offer genuine Geovision products as they advertise? Does this setup seem reasonable?

 

How many days of storage could I expect with 16 cameras running, with the business open 14 hours/day?

 

Does anyone else use a widescreen for Geovision products and does it help?

 

Thanks!

Todd

[sal 0]

First , I do not like your machine specs at all for the GV-1480.

 

Athlon is not a good starting point for Geovision since geo does not test on this platform. you want to go with the 945 chipset and and a genuine intel processor.

 

The combo cards are picky when it comes to hardware combinations, took us a while to find the right formula. Here is a machine with specs that we build and know works welll with the GV-1480.

 

http://www.digitalwatchguard.com/securitycameras/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=363&idproduct=2877

 

On another note, that Sony PTZ Camera is not a Sony Camera. It is a camera with a Sony CCD chip inside. Not the same thing and I am sure it won't last as long as if it was made by Sony, however it may be fine for you application. What protocol does it run on? I reccomend Merit Lilin for use with Geo since its protocol is fully supported.

 

http://www.digitalwatchguard.com/securitycameras/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=15&idproduct=894

 

As far as storage calculation, please visit http://www.geovision.com.tw/english/index.asp and see the HDD calculator on the bottom right. It will help.

 

I think an ideal resolutiion for Geo is 1024 x 768 depending on the size and quality of the monitor.

[jalltec 0]

SAL, regarding the Merit Lilan ptz, is it compatable with Geovision's Object Tracking feature? Their website shows many ptz's they support but I have only seen them mention 2 camera's for object tracking.

I would be very happy to find that the model you linked to would work.

Have you used it with Geovision object tracking?

I have never used ptz. Object tracking is too interesting, I really want to try it out!

Also, I was wondering if geo object tracking could be done with a zoom only.

The idea is for it to zoom in on a subject as they trigger the motion zone at the front door for a few seconds, then to automatically return to wide angle ( to watch the entire room.

Here is the zoom cam link:http://www.digitalwatchguard.com/securitycameras/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=541&idproduct=1588[/b]

[Charlie 0]

Don't be concerned by your choice of hardware, that system is by far and away more than capable of running a demanding Geovision system. For a long time we used Athlon socket A, then 754's,then 939's & now AM2's. Whilst Geovision them selves don't test AMD based hardware, they do accept that in general few problems will arise - In fact many recent issues with card stability has been related to bad Intel chipsets.

 

Using H.264 compression you should expect 1.5Tb to last you a good month if not more when working on a VMD basis. If you’re talking time lapse, then considerably less.

 

As an example a typical system for us would use a 3000+ athlon64, 512mb DDR, and a motherboard with integrated graphics (ATI). We've used this same setup on everything right up to 1480 combo cards - no issues.