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Galaxy IT & Marketing is an authorized Lorex dealer serving Sudbury, MA. Every system we install records to a recorder in your building — no monthly subscription, and it keeps recording with the internet down.
Sudbury properties are large, spread out and often have three or four separate structures. The hard part here is not choosing a camera — it is getting signal and power out to a barn 300 feet from the house.
On a typical Sudbury property the house, the garage, the barn or shed and the driveway entrance can be hundreds of feet apart. Standard Ethernet stops working reliably past about 100 metres, and Wi-Fi from a router in the house does not survive the trip to an outbuilding through two exterior walls and a stand of trees.
The solutions are unglamorous and they work: PoE extenders or a switch in an intermediate structure, direct-burial cable where a trench is feasible, or a point-to-point wireless bridge between buildings with its own local recording. We work out which during the walkthrough, because it drives the cost far more than the cameras do.
Detached garages, barns and workshops are where tractors, tools, bikes and equipment live, and they are almost always the least covered structure on the property. They are also the least likely to be noticed during an incident, because nobody is in them at night.
Coverage there is worth more per camera than another angle on the front door. Pair it with motion-triggered lighting — a floodlight camera at a barn door does as much deterring as recording.
On a long wooded driveway the entrance camera is the one that matters, and it needs to be near the road at vehicle height, not up by the house. That is frequently the position with no power and no easy cable path, which loops back to the distance problem above — but it is the camera worth solving for.
Yes. Options are a PoE extender or an intermediate switch, direct-burial cable if a trench is feasible, or a point-to-point wireless bridge between the buildings. Each has a different cost and reliability profile, and which one makes sense depends on what is between the two structures. It is the main thing we work out on a walkthrough here.
The detached garage or barn, and the driveway entrance — not the front door. Outbuildings hold the equipment and nobody is in them at night, and the driveway entrance is the only camera that tells you who arrived and in what.
No. PoE means the same cable carries power and video, so we only need a path back to the recorder, not a nearby outlet. Where even that is impractical, a solar wire-free camera covers it — with the caveat that battery cameras have a wake-up delay, so we pair them with a wired camera wherever the timing matters.
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