Recent content by Donahue

The crane is powered, I think I can siphon of that for electricity. They get power by running HV down the length of the crane, not by wires. Obviously this would not work if I could not get 110V up there, which is not a guarantee at the point. PTZ wouldn't work, the goal would be the camera...

Installing a camera on a bridge crane would require quite a bit of festooning in the ethernet cable. Our cranes are similar to this one. They travel about 300' in one axis, and about 40' in another. I can probably get power to them, but there would have to be a wireless portion for the data...

I am looking into mounting some cameras (looking down) on some large bridge cranes in our shop. These would mostly be for insurance and liability purposes. Are there any good recommendations for a camera that might fit this use case? I obviously cannot run PoE to these locations.

I need to add more PoE AP's inside the building anyways, so this would sort of kill two birds with one stone.

It would have been their wifi network, not ours. I would not allow that on my wifi. But the building has 6" thick concrete walls, it's a nightmare for wifi anyways.

SSN's wouldn't help, and would probably make the problem worse. From what I was told, they were likely going through HR files to get the codes in the first place. The building has since been re-keyed, but the old key that unlocked the front door would also unlock all of the offices include HR.

Wow, it looks like BI and virtualization are not a good match together. I'll have to factor that into my calculations.

Well, the existing scenario that caused all of this to come up was someone coming in after hours and using security codes for other people. Our existing security system was pretty old, and that was part of the problem. That is also being addressed, but with the way it currently is, we only get...

That's good to hear. One of the reasons that I am not 100% on motion is because of this being a business that operates at least 16+ hours a day. For some areas, motion may make sense if there is either not a lot of traffic in and out of those areas, or something like that. But in other areas...

Hello. I am new to security/surveillance, and I have recently found this forum. There seems like a lot of useful information here. I am the IT manager for my company and I have been asked to look into our options for adding a system to cover our property. We recently have had some instances...