I live in the glorious city of Gary, IN, once the murder capital of the USA! It's really not that bad, at least the part I am in, which is a beach town called Miller, somewhat separated from Gary, but still part of the city. We have a pretty diverse population that ranges from homeless and section 8 housing, up to multimillion dollar lakefront properties.
About 6 weeks ago, my church on our main drive into Miller had it's front door/window shot out overnight, and after investigation it appears there was some kind of altercation as about 15 bullet holes from two separate guns were discovered across the façade of the Church and our neighboring property (an insurance salesman). Needless to say it has shaken our small congregation a bit. We now have armed congregants guarding the doors during service (myself included), and have lost a couple of members afraid of something happening.
Yesterday, my pastor was mowing the front lawn, and a couple of kids driving by shot a co2 pellet gun at him, striking him once in the arm. Broad daylight, early afternoon, right on our main street in the middle of Miller. I wish I could say this is an isolated incident, but as summer ramps up, the rif-raf comes out around here, particularly with NWI crowds and Chicagoans partying at the beach along Lake Michigan. Now, we are planning to hold service in the basement until we have addressed the security concerns.
We have already ordered a 10x Swann NVR camera system that I'll be helping to install once it arrives to monitor the exterior views and interior of the church. I do not expect the cameras to necessarily deter the recent vandalism/incident or shenanigans going on, but I do want to be able to provide our understaffed and strained police force with effective evidence when something does happen. We are also working with our neighboring property (the insurance guy), who would let us run some ethernet and post a couple of cameras on his property if needed to grab license plate views.
I am not trying to set up an automated LPR logging system, or 'monitor'/'log' the street traffic. First of all, about 25% of the cars here have 'temp' tags that they trade out with their buddies at the cash-n-go used car dealers around here, and the ones usually causing problems have them in the window or barely visible. I want to be able to go back a week or two if needed and pull footage from a time period should an incident occur involving a vehicle passing along our main drag. I also plan to engage the police department directly to let them know we have this capability, should something happen, and they could benefit from the footage.
I have attached a google map image with some quick line art showing the property, Swann camera plans, and (in yellow), of where I would like to put a couple of tight angle lens cameras to record car traffic 24/7.
I need help finding a good telephoto NVR system, or parts (cameras and a dedicated generic NVR recording unit) that would help us monitor the street traffic (in Yellow). Please let me know what ideas and recommendations you have from your experience.
(fyi, highly experience IT guy, networking, cable running, programming, video, etc, so MacGyver like hackery is an option)
About 6 weeks ago, my church on our main drive into Miller had it's front door/window shot out overnight, and after investigation it appears there was some kind of altercation as about 15 bullet holes from two separate guns were discovered across the façade of the Church and our neighboring property (an insurance salesman). Needless to say it has shaken our small congregation a bit. We now have armed congregants guarding the doors during service (myself included), and have lost a couple of members afraid of something happening.
Yesterday, my pastor was mowing the front lawn, and a couple of kids driving by shot a co2 pellet gun at him, striking him once in the arm. Broad daylight, early afternoon, right on our main street in the middle of Miller. I wish I could say this is an isolated incident, but as summer ramps up, the rif-raf comes out around here, particularly with NWI crowds and Chicagoans partying at the beach along Lake Michigan. Now, we are planning to hold service in the basement until we have addressed the security concerns.
We have already ordered a 10x Swann NVR camera system that I'll be helping to install once it arrives to monitor the exterior views and interior of the church. I do not expect the cameras to necessarily deter the recent vandalism/incident or shenanigans going on, but I do want to be able to provide our understaffed and strained police force with effective evidence when something does happen. We are also working with our neighboring property (the insurance guy), who would let us run some ethernet and post a couple of cameras on his property if needed to grab license plate views.
I am not trying to set up an automated LPR logging system, or 'monitor'/'log' the street traffic. First of all, about 25% of the cars here have 'temp' tags that they trade out with their buddies at the cash-n-go used car dealers around here, and the ones usually causing problems have them in the window or barely visible. I want to be able to go back a week or two if needed and pull footage from a time period should an incident occur involving a vehicle passing along our main drag. I also plan to engage the police department directly to let them know we have this capability, should something happen, and they could benefit from the footage.
I have attached a google map image with some quick line art showing the property, Swann camera plans, and (in yellow), of where I would like to put a couple of tight angle lens cameras to record car traffic 24/7.
I need help finding a good telephoto NVR system, or parts (cameras and a dedicated generic NVR recording unit) that would help us monitor the street traffic (in Yellow). Please let me know what ideas and recommendations you have from your experience.
(fyi, highly experience IT guy, networking, cable running, programming, video, etc, so MacGyver like hackery is an option)
