#poe

Structured wiring + conduit + PoE backbone for framing

“Forty-two Cat6 drops, twelve conduit runs, six exterior camera locations, and one mailbox sensor signal pair. The single buildable-once moment in the house's life ended this afternoon.”

Designing the new build for the wires, from day one

“Cat6 in the walls during framing costs $40 a drop. The same Cat6 after drywall costs $400. Everything is a retrofit eventually — so plan everything you might possibly want before the studs are covered.”

PoE cameras + Frigate NVR — local object detection

“Cloud camera services charge $5-15/mo per camera. Frigate + a Coral USB does the same object detection locally for $75 of one-time hardware. The cost-per-camera-month asymptote is zero.”