Street - CCTV Camera's

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elf_lord_ZC5

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What are the obstacles to placing CCTV cameras to cover the street area in front of a residential complex, other than the trees growing on the pavement.

In recent times we have had a few Hi-jackings, numerous assualts and last night an attempted kidnapping of a young girl ...

We would like to have some data to follow up and take any action possible in such instances ... , even if it is only being able to hand over footage to the police.
 
Body Corporate is mostly in favour ... , which is nice for a change ... , don't even mind putting up boards - Warning you are being observed by a 24/7 CCTV System - please smile!
 
Some good advice - Get a good PTZ to start with.

If you have a video camera - mount it temporarily in various placed to find your best location.

Doing it this way, the zoom, direction and tilt can be changed from time to time too, because as sure as the strike season every year, the bad ous will try to change their habits and your fixed camera will be just in the wrong positions.
 
The 4-5 camera's we have in mind, should give us close to 100% coverage of the area ... , excluding dead spots caused by trees ... , and I am not in favour of removing the trees ...
 
TEXTILE GUY said:
Some good advice - Get a good PTZ to start with.

If you have a video camera - mount it temporarily in various placed to find your best location.

Doing it this way, the zoom, direction and tilt can be changed from time to time too, because as sure as the strike season every year, the bad ous will try to change their habits and your fixed camera will be just in the wrong positions.
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A PTZ and some fixed cameras that overlap.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
The 4-5 camera's we have in mind, should give us close to 100% coverage of the area ... , excluding dead spots caused by trees ... , and I am not in favour of removing the trees ...
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Get a decent DVR and then a couple of cameras, get the body corporate to budget for a camera a month till the DVR is full.
 
There are no legal obstacles to placing CCTV cameras to record roads. As long as you don't infringe on private property (like peeking at your neighbour's daughter while she swims), you're good to go, and it may be used in court.
An example of the above is the Chanelle Henning case - we had cameras recording traffic in the street, and the courts loved it.
 
froot said:
There are no legal obstacles to placing CCTV cameras to record roads. As long as you don't infringe on private property (like peeking at your neighbour's daughter while she swims), you're good to go, and it may be used in court.
An example of the above is the Chanelle Henning case - we had cameras recording traffic in the street, and the courts loved it.
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Don't want to know about the neigbouring complexes or what they doing - tho a facility to remotely turn down the volume on a few audio systems might be useful every now and then ...
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
What are the obstacles to placing CCTV cameras to cover the street area in front of a residential complex, other than the trees growing on the pavement.

In recent times we have had a few Hi-jackings, numerous assualts and last night an attempted kidnapping of a young girl ...

We would like to have some data to follow up and take any action possible in such instances ... , even if it is only being able to hand over footage to the police.
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One of the security companies nearby recently installed a system to monitor the street. Not sure how safe it as, as anyone can just steal it even though they have an alarm system built in.

The unit consists of 4 x IR Cameras that are linked to our control room where they monitor the unit 24/7, it also has a builtin alarm system with seismic and tilt sensors. The unit can function off battery alone but the ac is used for extra charging for our wireless video transmitters inside.
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Ek kan ongelukkig nie te veel inligting uitgee nie maar die hoof doel is misdaad verkoming, ons beplan om nog so stelsel binne die volgende 2 weke by die ander ingang te sit om die 44 kliente van Graniethoogste te beskerm. Hulle kan my gerus kontak om die stelsel op hulle slimfoon of tablet te koppel aan die stelsel sodat hulle die video self kan sien 24/7
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Thats all the info, they provided on our community 'watch' facebook page.

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Something like that in a protective enclosure could work ... , tho solar cell panels are rather attracive targets for vandals and thieves alone ...
 
Waking a sleeping thread for some info.

Anyone with experience on CCTV for monitoring a street?
Any suggestions for wireless kits that can be used?
 
Still kicking this ball around, want to monitor the street entrance and exits at complex, but need a solution for monitoring them. As I work, cannot monitor them myself.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Still kicking this ball around, want to monitor the street entrance and exits at complex, but need a solution for monitoring them. As I work, cannot monitor them myself.
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Their main use would be for after the fact info. Or for viewing the life feed when you know some is wrong (in my case if dogs are barking). Permanent active watching is very unlikely.
 
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I use Hikvision IP cameras and Ubiquiti nanostation all connected to a little network switch mounted on a home made pole overlooking the street. My advice would be to have 2 cameras pointing in the same direction, one with a wide angle 3.6mm lens for general view and one with a 12mm lens aimed at the road to read license plates.
 
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I use Hikvision IP cameras and Ubiquiti nanostation all connected to a little network switch mounted on a home made pole overlooking the street. My advice would be to have 2 cameras pointing in the same direction, one with a wide angle 3.6mm lens for general view and one with a 12mm lens aimed at the road to read license plates.
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Perfect.

Do you have them hooked up to an NVR?

A solution like this would work perfectly for the street I live in.

From home > switch > cameras mounted to home
switch > nano > house on other end of the street > wireless IP cams? or another nano at the receiving end connected to a switch with wired cams
 
supersunbird said:
Their main use would be for after the fact info. Or for viewing the life feed when you know some is wrong (in my case if dogs are barking). Permanent active watching is very unlikely.
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My view as well, one of the other members of the Body Corporate thinks otherwise. :(
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Still kicking this ball around, want to monitor the street entrance and exits at complex, but need a solution for monitoring them. As I work, cannot monitor them myself.
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Have you considered something like Snipr?
This system checks each vehicle registration against the SAPS database as the vehicles drive past, as well as local lists you can create, and sends an alert to you if a vehicle comes back with a positive hit.
Not 100% fool proof but would give you an early warning if a potential suspicious vehicle was driving past.

Disclaimer - I work for Snipr.
 
supersunbird said:
I'd challenge that person so sit and watch CCTV footage for an hour...

I give it 10 min before the smartphone comes out and they are looking at the wrong screen.
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Not fun - in my youth, I used to watch a x-ray security monitor - 2 hours on - 2 hours off ... , and a half hour later forget they are supposed to be watching a monitor and fall asleep.
 
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