Hi Forum,
First of all I would like to thank the creator and moderator for this knowledge base opportunity as well as the contributor to this forum. This is truely great!
Here is my problem I would like some suggestions / ideas on.
I have a few acres of land in a remote area with no main power. However, we have a small cabin on that land but lately it got broken in and they started stealing the flooring and other materials.
To prevent us from more issues, I would like to install a few cameras around the area.
My issue is the following:
I thought about to build a mini ITX setup but the power consumption is high. Furthermore, if they steal this box, I will have to replace it and this cost will add up quickly.
That said, I am looking for a low cost setup.
My idea is to have a sort of raspberry PI handling the 4 cameras and connecting to the internet via the dongle. As the upload speed for that dongle is around 15Mbps and I need a low powered computer, I do not think I can stream 1080p (around 8Mbps per stream) on 4 cameras at the same time over the internet reliable.
A solution I was thinking of was to buffer the video feed on an ssd and upload the footage to a server in an interval and clean the ssd before it runs out of space.
However, if this works, it will give me a unorganised dump of data which is hard to go through for events.
Also, the box could be stolen before the next interval has started and the needed data is gone.
In an ideal world I would like to have this setup:
Thanks for the help in advance!
Cheers,
Macfly
First of all I would like to thank the creator and moderator for this knowledge base opportunity as well as the contributor to this forum. This is truely great!
Here is my problem I would like some suggestions / ideas on.
I have a few acres of land in a remote area with no main power. However, we have a small cabin on that land but lately it got broken in and they started stealing the flooring and other materials.
To prevent us from more issues, I would like to install a few cameras around the area.
My issue is the following:
- I need at least 4 cameras around the property to cover each entrance of the cabin
- The cameras should have night vision IR
- I have limited alternative power and an UPS which can run the setup but it need to have a low usage and run 24/7
- We have full coverage of mobile broadband via and USB dongle with enough data capacity to upload the data on motion only
- The data need to be stored away from the place as it is very easy to steal the setup
I thought about to build a mini ITX setup but the power consumption is high. Furthermore, if they steal this box, I will have to replace it and this cost will add up quickly.
That said, I am looking for a low cost setup.
My idea is to have a sort of raspberry PI handling the 4 cameras and connecting to the internet via the dongle. As the upload speed for that dongle is around 15Mbps and I need a low powered computer, I do not think I can stream 1080p (around 8Mbps per stream) on 4 cameras at the same time over the internet reliable.
A solution I was thinking of was to buffer the video feed on an ssd and upload the footage to a server in an interval and clean the ssd before it runs out of space.
However, if this works, it will give me a unorganised dump of data which is hard to go through for events.
Also, the box could be stolen before the next interval has started and the needed data is gone.
In an ideal world I would like to have this setup:
- 4 Cameras are connected to a low power usage middleware
- The middleware connects to the internet to my server at home
- The server runs ZoneMinder or equivalent
- If motion has been detected on one of the cameras ZoneMinder will record the stream
- How can i centralise the camera feed over the middleware
- How do I get the motion trigger across
- As far as I understand, the camera is constantly buffering X second to give me footage X second before the motion. Is this stored on the cam itself?
- Is there an openSource IP camera with API available I could easy use? Like Armcrest but open for any cloud?
- Are there better solutions matching my criteria above?
Thanks for the help in advance!
Cheers,
Macfly