Security Camera system concern; suggestions?

[MossRoad]

Hi disney

I use a camera that sends still images back to the farmhouse.

Camera is a Mobotix camera, with a separate Ubiquity Rocket M5 5.8 GHz wireless transmitter. Both are powered by a solar panel and a 12V car battery. The entire stuff is mounted on a cart thing that I made from wooden palings and some wheels. Images from the camera go via an ethernet cable to the wireless which transmits them back to the farmhouse. From there they get saved to the flash drive in the small fitPC2i computer (it's 4 x 4 x 1/2 inch size, takes just 4 Watts). Then the images get sent each hour via the satellite dish to my website so I can check on the alpacas anytime.
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Mike

You put something like that up around here and the last picture you'll see is of it being stolen. :laughing:

Neat setup! :thumbsup:

 

[Industrial Toys]

I am in the business for thirty years and I won't bother saying again how I think people are mistaken thinking cameras are the answer to crime.

Anyway. Why don't you buy a really cheap recorder as a decoy? Wire it all up with cables and power. Just don't go telling anyone.

BEST to get a good (wired) alarm system with dual tech sensors only and a lot (I mean a lot) of high power sirens. No one is going to set one foot inside your house, after all heck breaks loose.

I have had customers with just a broken door and skid marks in the driveway, where the would-be thieves left in a real hurry. That's what you want. Not a burglary with some dubious video footage.

 

[Sysop]

Agreed that many sirens, preferably on a battery backup, connected to a proper alarm system is the way to go. Cameras are nice to deter mostly honest folk, sorta like a lock, but they will not drive a determined thief away.

 

[MossRoad]

Maybe he's using it in a commercial setting? Wanting video evidence may be a necessity.

 

[Sysop]

Agreed, cameras are a required part of a "good" security system. That is why my first post was about a camera solution that is ideal for any scenario. Vivotek cameras simply do it all. They are a true commercial grade piece of hardware.

Having them or any camera system as the only security solution implemented is foolish as is noted in other posts because there are plenty of crooks that will steal the hardware if there is nothing preventing them taking the time to trace wires to where the recordings go. Vivotek's solution is to allow you to record in many places simultaneously, even inside the camera itself -on an SD card. If there is nothing preventing a crook from climbing a ladder to steal your cameras, computers, and anything electronic that could hold a video file, they will do so.

Someone else mentioned sirens, etc. as good additions and I simply agreed. Videoing someone is only good if you can run them off before the video is stolen. Sirens from multiple difficult to reach places is the ideal thing to run folk off.

 

[MossRoad]

I wasn't arguing with you. We rely on the alarm systems over video as well. At our first house, the alarm only went off once in 11 years... and it probably saved our car and lawn equipment. Snowy night. Fast asleep. Alarm goes off. I think maybe false alarm, but look outside and see footprints in the snow where someone had parked down the block and checked every car and garage door on the street. When they got to ours (that had a flimsy fiberglass overhead door) they busted the latch and opened the overhear door. When it got raised a couple inches, that was enough to move the reflector that was mounted to the door that a light beam was monitoring. Sirens went off in the house, on the roof and in the garage, and they ran away. Footprints were REALLY far apart heading back to their vehicle. Called the police and they followed the tire tracks for several blocks, but just our luck, the city actually plowed snow that night and they lost the trail.