NVR Network Video Recorder

Channel count is the number these recorders get chosen on, and the least useful one — it only caps how many cameras can connect. What decides the model is how long the footage has to be kept, and how the cameras get their power.

How to choose

• Retention first, then the model. Ask how many days of footage the client actually needs — usually a figure an insurer or a head office has already named. That number, against the cameras and how they record, sizes the disks, and the disks size the recorder.
• Built-in PoE, or a separate switch. Some recorders feed the cameras from ports on their own back panel; others assume a PoE switch is already in the cabinet. Where the building has structured cabling and a rack, paying twice for switching makes no sense; on a retrofit with neither, built-in PoE saves a switch, a power supply and labour.
• Drive bays, and the drives. Bay count caps retention, and drives are almost never supplied with the box. Price them separately, surveillance-rated, sized to that retention.
• Classification at the recorder. AcuSense models separate people and vehicles from other movement, keeping the overnight event list short enough to read. That earns its cost where somebody reviews the alarms; where nobody does, spend it on camera positions instead.

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