Camera Locations for Self Build Detached House?

[iMCaan]

We're planning our CCTV system for our new self build house.

Considerations:

1) Detached house with large side garden 25x20meters on one side with trees around the boundary
2) Back garden is 5 meters with large field at the back with public footpath.
3) Front garden is 6 meters to footpath/street.
4) The front door is half a meter lower than the footpath.
5) Busy (traffic and pedestrians) street throughout the day.

Please see attached photos. We seek some advice/suggestions for the best camera locations.
Furthermore, would POE be the most appropriate system?

Any advice is highly appreciated.

 

[Dan]

Hi @iMCaan

Below are our camera position recommendations:

Front of the House - Position B is fine for covering the front door and position C is roughly okay for covering the garage and drive.

Sides of the House - One camera on each side of the building, probably positioned something like position D and angled to look back to the front of the property (assuming that the most human activity down the sides will be people walking from the front to the back of the property).

Back of the House - Positions F & H, one camera positioned to look along the back of the property and the other positioned to look out across the back garden.

With the areas you need to cover, 6 cameras should be enough.

If you can run cable through the whole property, then yes we would recommend a PoE system using Cat6 cable.

 

[iMCaan]

Thanks Dan

In regards to cat6 cable, we are going to run a cat6a cable throughout the house for cameras and computers using a PoE switch.
Would it be better to put a rj45 wall plate internally near the camera and then run a shorter cat6 cable to the camera from the wall plate? Or should it be just one long piece of cat6 cable directly into the camera from PoE switch?

What cameras would you recommend?

Thanks

 

[Dan]

Hi @iMCaan

The PoE wiring is really up to you.

If you or your electrician can run long cable runs through the loft, walls, and floors then that will probably be the neatest way to do it because all the cable will be hidden from sight, but if you are already planning to put wall plates/access points in places like the living room or bedrooms then you can also connect the cameras that way (but usually the wall plate/access points around a house are not carrying PoE and so you would probably need to a have a PoE injector for each camera between the wall plate and the camera).

Our go-to camera recommendation for residential installs would be a Hikvision Turret camera like the DS-2CD2346G2-IU or the DS-2CD2386G2-IU, we would pair these cameras with a DS-7608NI-M2/8P 8-channel M-series NVR

 

[iMCaan]

Thanks Dan

 

[itrim]

Hi friends,

I think cat6a is overkill for this setup and would also make the connectors harder to crimp and bend into the junction boxes, if the cable runs to the cameras are under 100 meters just use cat6 or cat5e for cameras, use shielded cable if laying it with electrical cable or else keep it way from the electrical cable runs, not sure if any camera would need more than 1000mbps so cat6a over the top. I would even divide the house into two sections with 2 poe switches to shorten with two cat6 or cat5e runs back to the patch panel.

If might be an option to use conduit to each outside junction box incase of water ingress into cable then you can replace easy, otherwise drilling required in the future.

I would get a modular patch panel 24-Port 19" 1U and divide it for home network and camera network and put the camera on it's own POE switch or switches and isolate it away from your main home network on a vlan, no need to lump everything into the one poe switch sending poe into devices that dont require poe might not be a great idea.


Best of luck with your project

 

[iMCaan]

Thanks itrim

 

[iMCaan]

Are all PoE cables solid core?

thanks

 

[itrim]

Are all PoE cables solid core?

thanks

Please dont make the mistake of use stranded cable for anything other than patch cables.

 

[iMCaan]

Hi

Can these Hikvision Turret cameras DS-2CD2346G2-IU and DS-2CD2386G2-IU be wall mounted.
Can they be easily adjusted (left, right, up and down)?

Thanks

 

[Dan]

Yes, these turrets support 3-axis of adjustment (Pan: 0° to 360°, tilt: 0° to 75°, rotate: 0° to 360°) so can be wall-mounted and adjusted to almost any angle/position.

 

[iMCaan]

Thank you