How to organize video surveillance with recording on a remote server?

Question

linux

Good day!
There is a small office. The system administrator (that's me) was given the task of Organizing video surveillance for 10+ cameras, but on the condition that the broadcast would go to a remote server (most likely Win) located in another country. And one of the conditions is that nothing should be stored locally, that is, all the flow and storage took place on this remote server.
Has anyone else experienced similar issues, or can you just give me a solution?
Considered options:
https://video.yaware.com.ua/
https://www.zarit.com.ua/
iviport.com.ua/ru
https://ru.ivideon.com/
https://www. dssl.ru/https://www.mygvcloud-us.com/
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But my management did not approve of this, since everything should be stored on our server.

Answer 1

Trassir, line and others can do it, I think almost everyone else can too. We make vpn and add cameras by IPs within the network.
The main thing, as they correctly wrote in the comments, is the channel in which it will flow constantly.

Answer 2

You can estimate on the calculator what the stream will be from 10 IP cameras and how much storage is needed. For example, with ten 2-megapixel cameras (FullHD), the stream will be 34.2 Mbit / s, and 1-megapixel (HD 720) - 17.1 Mbit / s.
So think first of all how to organize a stable channel of such a width.

Answer 3

As they wrote earlier, a head-on solution is to merge the stream from the cameras via an external channel somewhere far away.
There is another option, I write from my own experience:
1. we install any software DVR that can record video only by movement in the frame. thus, we significantly reduce the volume of the generated video archive.
2. This DVR writes to the local video archive.
3. set up the transfer of new archive files to a remote server, for example, rsync via cron or other similar primitive method.
what we get:
1. reduction in the amount of transmitted data due to recording only by the motion sensor.
2. storing the archive somewhere far away, locally the files are formed and stored temporarily - i.e. it's actually a buffer.
3. such a scheme can easily survive a temporary loss of connectivity and a temporary drawdown in the channel capacity.
I did this with motion and analog cameras, when the channels were cdma450 / 3g / wimax, at current speeds, you can completely merge HD video.

Answer 4

VPN from the office with cameras to the surveillance server.
But usually they try to put the server as close as possible to the cameras, because. for recording, you need a guaranteed bandwidth of traffic, and it’s almost impossible to get it especially on an international channel (at least with earthly money)
So ideally: the server is in LAN, and viewing the archive in the Internet

Answer 5

shinobi.video - a full-fledged system recently used it to raise systems for 20+ cameras.
Quietly works with remote cameras (the server with recordings is in Hetzner, and the cameras are in a suburban branch with 2 3G LTE whistles in Mikrotik - a month of stable operation, not counting short downtimes due to the operator's network drop)
*Chinese cameras in alik, 640*480