Designing a HikCentral Professional deployment? Use this free interactive calculator to estimate all critical server resources — SYS server tier, pStor recording capacity, RAM, video storage, RAID drive count, client decoding load, and network bandwidth — based on your real camera groups and workload parameters.
Enter your camera count, resolution, bitrate, recording schedule, RAID configuration, access control doors, ANPR channels, face recognition channels, and concurrent client connections. The calculator instantly recommends a complete server configuration for your HikCentral project.
How to Use This Calculator
- Camera Groups: Add one row per stream type (e.g. 80 × 2MP at 2 Mbps, 40 × 4MP at 4 Mbps). Mix as many groups as your project requires.
- Recording & RAID: Set daily recording hours, retention period, H.265+ smart codec reduction, filesystem overhead, RAID level, and HDD size.
- HikCentral Workload: Enter access control doors, ANPR/vehicle channels, face recognition channels, alarm event rate, concurrent clients, live-view streams, and playback streams.
- Click Calculate HikCentral Server to get your recommended hardware configuration.
What It Calculates
- SYS server tier recommendation (based on total camera channels and workload)
- pStor recording server capacity
- Required RAM
- Raw and usable recording storage (with RAID overhead)
- Minimum HDD count for selected RAID level
- Client decoding load across concurrent connections
- Network bandwidth (inbound recording + client live-view + playback)
Note: This tool is an estimator. Final sizing should be validated against the exact HikCentral Professional version, module licenses, recording mode, server role separation, disk write performance, and Hikvision project requirements.
For HikCentral Professional software downloads and licensing, visit our HikCentral Professional page.
