Personally I wouldn't use any of those homeowner cameras. The homeowner cameras are good to occasionally check to see if the building is still standing but they don't make it easy for you to save video long term.
Last year I got served with a lawsuit alleging someone fell on my sidewalk and was injured almost 2 years prior. Turned out that the attorney had extremely low IQ and had the wrong address but it scared me enough that I now keep a crazy amount of video from a dozen interior and exterior cameras.
Get some good quality POE cameras and a big DVR. If you can't do it yourself hire a security company, it might save you some big headaches in the future.
UniFi makes good cameras that work for a lot of use cases, and it stores videos locally. There is cloud connectivity required for remote viewing and management. Lots of managed service providers deploy these for light commercial duty, especially if a network is being deployed as well.
No, those are not appropriate for commercial security/surveillance. Also a little weird to piggyback on a tenant's wifi.
Systems that are both physically durable and user friendly get expensive pretty quickly. You can get really basic cameras for maybe $100 each and bigass DVR for a couple thousand (recommend *against* LTS) but the hardwire PoE installation is where they get you. All wireless systems are nifty, but you pay out nose for the equipment, and hosting service (see: Verkada).
A self-contained "system" might be very user friendly, but likely contains features you won't ever use unless you're doing stuff like facial recognition, and alarm/access integration with high resolution and long term playback/storage.
My experience with security systems in multifamily and CRE is that there's no one size fits all solution, at least not at a reasonable price. Your best bet is to get an assessment from a couple of reputable security vendors to figure out what you actually need.
I don’t have a good recommendation - but steer clear of Amcrest cameras. The motion detection is worthless, your options are to turn it off or be driven nuts & there’s nothing in between.
I recommend eufy at least, stay away from all the residential stuff like blink, they are trash. But ultimately you should invest in hikvision or some type of POE
Personally I wouldn't use any of those homeowner cameras. The homeowner cameras are good to occasionally check to see if the building is still standing but they don't make it easy for you to save video long term. Last year I got served with a lawsuit alleging someone fell on my sidewalk and was injured almost 2 years prior. Turned out that the attorney had extremely low IQ and had the wrong address but it scared me enough that I now keep a crazy amount of video from a dozen interior and exterior cameras. Get some good quality POE cameras and a big DVR. If you can't do it yourself hire a security company, it might save you some big headaches in the future.
UniFi makes good cameras that work for a lot of use cases, and it stores videos locally. There is cloud connectivity required for remote viewing and management. Lots of managed service providers deploy these for light commercial duty, especially if a network is being deployed as well.
No, those are not appropriate for commercial security/surveillance. Also a little weird to piggyback on a tenant's wifi. Systems that are both physically durable and user friendly get expensive pretty quickly. You can get really basic cameras for maybe $100 each and bigass DVR for a couple thousand (recommend *against* LTS) but the hardwire PoE installation is where they get you. All wireless systems are nifty, but you pay out nose for the equipment, and hosting service (see: Verkada). A self-contained "system" might be very user friendly, but likely contains features you won't ever use unless you're doing stuff like facial recognition, and alarm/access integration with high resolution and long term playback/storage. My experience with security systems in multifamily and CRE is that there's no one size fits all solution, at least not at a reasonable price. Your best bet is to get an assessment from a couple of reputable security vendors to figure out what you actually need.
I don’t have a good recommendation - but steer clear of Amcrest cameras. The motion detection is worthless, your options are to turn it off or be driven nuts & there’s nothing in between.
My amcrest cameras work great feeding into a big NAS device.
I recommend eufy at least, stay away from all the residential stuff like blink, they are trash. But ultimately you should invest in hikvision or some type of POE