((((Preface, I don't know where this question belongs; moderator(s) please direct me))))
Anyway...
Maintenance, Security, and Admin would love to have our entire place covered with video.
"Professional Surveillance" vendors would love to transform us into a non-profit organization.
We have two large and two small buildings on about five acres of land.
I'm guessing that the area is about fifty percent parking spaces; some small, but significant, fraction of landscaping (unscientific guess is fifteen percent); and the rest for the actual buildings.
The buildings are four story units; and I'm tossing out a wild guess that they are about a quarter million square feet.
During certain times of the day, there will be very low traffic. This is when the security guys want video. During another part of the day, there will be frequent traffic; and admin (particularly housekeeping) wants video for those times. There will also be times when maintenance wants to stalk a given area.
I just checked Walmart, and they have $10 webcams on their website.
Is a whole bunch of such webcams (like more than a hundred of them) a realistic idea ?
What I have tried:
At this moment, all I've done is just trade a few sentences with the maintenance chief. He was more ready for this than I was.
I'm just asking for thoughts from those who know about these things.
Currently we have four ridiculous cameras which are quasi-useful if things work out right.