- Client
- Airpark Self Storage
- Location
- Gypsum, CO
- Scope
- Self-storage security · Commercial security camera systems · Commercial security
A self-storage site is mostly outdoors, mostly unstaffed and arranged so that a camera at one end of an aisle looks a long way down it. The coverage problem is distance, and the alert problem is everything that moves and is not a person.
Airpark Self Storage in Gypsum needed both answered at once, on a property where winter is hard on equipment and power interruptions are part of the season.
The installation
The photographs below are from the completed job. They show the camera positions and how each housing sits against the surface it was mounted to.
The installation A bullet camera at the end of a drive aisle in Gypsum, set for the long view down the row of unit doors.
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A dispersed site with dead spots
The property is a set of long drive aisles and building rows rather than one building. The previous system left the far ends of the aisles and the outer storage areas loosely covered, which is where a problem is least likely to be seen.
The assessment started at the gates and the perimeter fence and worked inward, because those are the points that decide who is on the property at all.
Filtering out animals and weather
On a site like this, motion is constant: wildlife, shadows, passing cloud and wind. An alert system that reports all of it is a system that management stops reading. Wildlife crossing a drive aisle at night is a normal event here, and it should not read as an intruder.
We deployed AI cameras that report human and vehicle movement and ignore the rest. Dome and bullet housings were placed for the long view down each aisle, with infrared illumination for the dark hours.
Recording that survives a drive failure
The cameras record to a central NVR with a RAID array, so a single failed disk does not take the recordings with it. That matters more at a site where nobody is on hand to notice a warning light.
We configured the detection zones and the recording profiles per camera rather than accepting the defaults, and set up remote access so the owner can check the property without driving to Gypsum.
Fiber to the far ends of the site
The property is longer than a copper network segment, and the buildings sit apart. Weather-hardened network switches distributed across the site are joined by shielded fiber optic cable runs.
That layout keeps the copper runs short, protects the backbone from electrical interference and gives each cluster of cameras a local connection instead of one long path to a single closet. The recorder and the power protection sit together at the center of it.
Edge storage where the runs are long
The cameras also hold an edge storage copy, so a break in the network does not mean a gap in the record. A UPS at the recording location keeps the NVR running through the brief power interruptions common in the area.
For the owner, the system is one place to review an incident across the whole property. For the site, it is coverage that reaches the far aisles after dark.
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