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Hi,
first of all, I apologize for my bad English. I hope this is not a problem.

I am looking for a video surveillance system with which I can pursue more than 20 cameras into 4 large monitors what is happening live. A recording is not first required.

What hardware is needed for this zone and is less cope with such a high number of cameras? And what will it cost something?

The whole is mounted in a steel plant will find a lot of fine dust in the air is.


Thanks from Germany
Marcus

You don't need any special software for that, other than the computer running the display - with a quad head graphics card.

If you're using ip cameras (and for a large site, analogues would be tricky to wire), you can simply create a local html file with <img> tags pointing to the mjpeg feeds. Firefox or chrome will display the streams as video. Four of those, one for each monitor - done.

Or - as above, but using a smarter montage system. I put all my camera details (different types) into an sql database and have a cgi script which creates different montages of streams, based on area or group (welfare, security, perimeter etc)

Alternatively, something like four traditional analogue systems split into quarters. Each system to its own monitor (ok, only 16 cameras then, so you may need an extra monitor).

The dust will cause some problems, but possibly not that many - depending. I run a lot of cameras in stables which generally run fine, although of course the lenses need cleaning more than a cleaner environment.