So I have a longgg driveway. There is a tree almost at the end. It is a large tree and I can put a camera on it looking down at the driveway. I currently have ring outdoor solar there, but it just shows if there is movement. I cannot make out license plates or faces. For this particular location, I would like a solar wifi.
Any suggestions?
would any of the reolink battery powered security cams work?
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Yeah, Reolink will do the same - let you know what happened, but everything will be motion blur city. Reolink won't actually adhere to user settings, especially shutter speed.
A ring or reolink camera WILL NEVER be able to read plates, especially at night.
You have to setup the camera to get plates, but at night that is all it will get.
This is a
camera dedicated to plates and not an overview camera also. It is as much an art as it is a science.
You will need two cameras. For LPR we need to
OPTICALLY zoom in tight to make the plate as large as possible. For most of us, all you see is the not much more than a vehicle in the entire frame. Now maybe in the right location during the day it might be able to see some other things, but not at night.
At night, we have to run a very fast shutter speed (1/2,000) and in B/W with IR and the image will be black. We need the fast shutter to capture the plate and take advantage of the reflective properties of the plate. All you will see are head/tail lights and the plate. Some people can get away with color if they have enough street lights, but most of us cannot. Here is a representative sample of plates I get at night of vehicles traveling about 45MPH at 175 feet from my 2MP 5241-Z12E camera (that is all that is needed for plates):
At that shutter speed you will not pick up the outline of the car, people walking by, etc. Just like at a shutter speed to capture people at night, the plate will be all white due to the reflective properties of the plate.
See the
LPR subforum for lots of examples.
