Advice Requested - 8 Camera System For High End Residential - Wireless Infrastructure

Should be easy to do with UBNT. Use a Rocket with an ONMI or sector antenna at your head end and use NanoBeams at your switch locations.

I have done some work with Tirade (which is now called Ligowave).

They are an antenna with access point built in weather rated and are powered with POE. They have clamps that fit nicely on a standard J pole like they use for satellite dishes. There is also a signal strength meter on the unit which is handy for aiming.

They can be setup for point to point or point to multipoint.

They claim to go 9 miles point to point.

I have one installation going 1400 feet for nearly 2 years with no problems.

I have tested up to 2000 feet and seemed to work well.

Perhaps something like this might work for your application.

UBNT or Ubiquiti. We installed tons of these with my former company. We had some sites that did have some hiccups and I was told it was possibly due to us not using Cat5e with a ground discharge. We also had no surge or UPS protection on most of these devices. Not my choice, I didn't design them.

I suggest you use their TC cable, its not that expensive in the grand scheme of things. I also would install a UPS on each end.

We usually used the Loco M5 up to 4 or 5 cameras.

The 120 integrated sectors with nanobeams work pretty good. I wish they had put dual nics with poe passthrough like the retiring nanostations. That made dual cameras and repeaters easy. The 8 port tough switches are good to power radios and cameras. Will allow camera reboots remotely. Low temperature rated, with layer 2 management and diagnostic. Be sure to not plug radios into ports configured for 48 v.

You must use shielded cabling with grounded rj45 for all radios. This is the first question their support will ask you. The midspans and switches have grounded ports which grounds the radio and eliminates ESD. You must crimp the drain on the connectors.

Ubiquiti no longer supports new rockets ac with omnis. Sectors only. You can still get omnis, though.

I've done at least 7 jobs that I can think of at the moment using Ubiquiti over the last three years and all are doing very well, but we've always played it pretty safe in terms of system design and application. I've used both the Loco M5 and the Nano M5. We always did point to point setups that had clear line of sight, and always used a UPS backup on all equipment. One job had two Nano M5s back to back on a light pole as we didn't have a clear line of sight from the camera to the building, so we did a bank shot off of a light pole. Fortunately, the light pole had 24hr voltage and used photocells on the lights. We put the UPS in an outdoor enclosure on the pole. One job has three 2MP cameras, another has one 2MP and two 4MP cameras, another has two 4MP cameras going to a low cost NVR with an internal POE, another has two 5MP cameras, a couple jobs are a single 5MP camera and a single 2MP camera, and one job has 11 analog cameras on three 4-port encoders plus three 1MP cameras, on one wireless point. We always set a bandwidth limit on all cameras and encoders so we've never exceeded 50mbps on the wireless points on any of the jobs. The furthest shot we've done is the one with the analog encoders which is about 600' between points and across a fairly busy street. That same location also has the IT guys set of Ubiquiti points (not sure which model) carrying the customers internet service between buildings across the street. I've had good experiences with Ubiquiti. There might be "better" products but Ubiquiti is a very cost effective solution and has been adequate for our customers needs.

We would typically set up any wireless points on the bench and verify operation before installing.

Thanks all for the suggestions. I really appreciate everyone's professional recommendations and assistance.

Hi Matt

(Disclaimer - I am a Siklu employee)

For a wireless network with very high reliability, availability and capacity you may want to look at Siklu. We operate in the interference and congestion free 60GHz operating bands, so no risk of interference. These license free bands can also deliver very high capacity (from 100Mbps up to 1Gbps) with very low latency (350 micro seconds) so if you are aggregating a number of cameras no concerns with bandwidth limitation. No spectral analysis required due to the very narrow beams and zero interference.

Higher price point than Ubiquity for sure but more of an Enterprise class product so different category.

If you would like to learn more please visit www.siklu.com.

Thanks

Alex Doorduyn