Specs for a budget building management PC

[graphicsgriffin]

Hi everyone,

I have to buy a PC for the management of a 20-floor residential building. The main functions are:
-installation and use of electronic door lock software (door card reader to be connected for the programming of the access cards)
-installation and use of AC BTU calculation software (the building has BTU meters installed which calculate the power consumption of the different apartments)
-CCTV viewing and recording (100 normal non-HD cameras already installed)

What specs should I be looking for on a budget?

 

[smorizio]

send out some emails to the door lock reader see if they have updated software. windows 7 went end of life and ms is killling off windows 8 as soon as windows 10 drops. also want to see what tye of port is on there hardware. on our condo door system it uses a serial port cable. if i was doing the set up I would use a heap laptop for the door software and have a online backup service for the database of the door software. or if there people that can do a monthly backup of the database to a usb sticks. one to keep lock up on site and another off site. most of the door software i used if you lose the password or the data base goes bad your going to have to ask for all of the keys back and rerpogram them back into the data base one at a time. also with a laptop you can mount it on a drop down self on a wall next to the door system. one issue that will alway pop up is what happens if the building loses power?? how long will the door system run on a ups. if the power going to be out for days at some point your going to have to unlock the main door in the software before the ups drops. using a laptop with it own battery make you look smart. btc ap should be installed on the laptop. most of those aps are not cpu intensive.
for the video system. speak with a few pro installers. you9 can go two routes. one is a pc the other dvr system.
the issue is with 100 cams you need a 100 port or channel system. you have to price out pci dvr cards to see how many port are on one card and if you need one or two pc.
http://www.dvrsystems.net/Enterprise_NVR_Servers-DVR_Systems_128_Channel_Super_Network_Video_Record.html
http://www.amazon.com/Channel-Enterprise-Surveillance-Resolution-Security/dp/B00EUKLQCM
on the pci cards I would use a lower end haswell server cpu and server mb in a small rack case. and rack mount it to the wall with a small screen and keyboard...have the system hooked up to the internet so you could watch the cams from any pc.