'Real' cost ?

Has anyone hear ever worked on a municipality video surveilance system ?

Buffalo, NY just finished installing a 60 camera system using the 4.9 GHz
Public safety band.

The link below is an article about it.

The question is the cost. According to the article, it seems like the
camera's and radio equipment needed and the city paid for, amotized over
the 60 camera's, ended up costing ~ $41,000 per camera location. Additional
costs for a monitoring room, (what I'm assuming are site-surveys)
analytics, and other additional costs.

I've seen many of them around the city, and all of the ones I've seen
appear to be mounted on existing locations (meaning none of the $41K per
site included construction/installation of special poles or dedicated
towers.)

I guess it's all in the cost of the camera's.....(which I couldn't find
online with a quick search.)

Still though, $41K per camera site sounds pretty high.

http://www.bpdny.org/Home/Press/Current/MayorBrownSurveillanceCameraUpdate

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