I have been wanting to start up a thread here for a long time regarding retreat security. I know a few things about security and video surveillance type stuff. I have been in the low voltage industry for 17 years designing, installing and servicing these exact systems. Hopefully this can be a thread that takes on some life and I welcome all questions. I may not always know the answers but if I don't i'll do my best to find them for you. First up is remote video surveillance. Im kinda going to start in reverse as this is the extreme of video requirement. You want to have video at a location that you just cant get wire to either because it is just too far away or it isn't practical. As I like to think in extremes... LETS GO THERE!! You have a retreat and you seriously would love to have a video feed of the road coming into your place but its 2 miles to where the road leaves the pavement. Well,, if terrain allows thats not a problem.. What if you could place a camera on a hillside 5,6 or even 8 miles away and monitor a area? As long as you have line of sight its totally doable and its not that expensive.. Lets start..
Ubiquiti networks is a manufacturer of high end yet low cost wireless network solutions. By low cost im talking about the ability to send video 15 kilomets thats 9.3 miles for about $150 dollars. Even better yet the Ubiquiti Nano station is a narrow beam antenna system so you align the transmit and receive units together, you arent just sending video out in a 360 degree arc, that's important for security reasons, If you don't know why maybe we can cover that later..
The Nano station is a WIFI based system. It was designed to send wireless access to remote locations. However, with modern IP based cameras we can plug a camera into the transmitter and have its signal sent to the receiver WIRELESSLY.. Using modern IP based cameras, a NANO station pair, 24v dc power and solar to recharge said batteries it is a very easy task to accomplish. Granted cost wise the system can get pricey for multiple single camera units but that is the nice thing about IP based cameras.. Introduce a standard network switch into the design and you can plug in multiple cameras all using ONE nano station pair. Here is a extreme application.. Your budy has a retreat a couple miles from you. His house sits in a small valley but behind his house is a hill with direct line of sight to your house. He has several cameras that you would like to monitor and vice versa SIMPLE... put a nano station between the two houses and link his cameras to your system.. Heck if they are IP based you can even see them on your smart phone....WITHOUT THE INTERNET BEING OPERATIONAL...
It may sound complicated but seriously.. If you can use wire strippers, a laptop and common sense I could walk you through it over the phone in about 2 1/2 to 3/4 hour sessions.. its not that complicated.. This is the same tech that the Mexican drug cartels are using for communications and surveillance all over Mexico...
Ubiquiti networks is a manufacturer of high end yet low cost wireless network solutions. By low cost im talking about the ability to send video 15 kilomets thats 9.3 miles for about $150 dollars. Even better yet the Ubiquiti Nano station is a narrow beam antenna system so you align the transmit and receive units together, you arent just sending video out in a 360 degree arc, that's important for security reasons, If you don't know why maybe we can cover that later..
The Nano station is a WIFI based system. It was designed to send wireless access to remote locations. However, with modern IP based cameras we can plug a camera into the transmitter and have its signal sent to the receiver WIRELESSLY.. Using modern IP based cameras, a NANO station pair, 24v dc power and solar to recharge said batteries it is a very easy task to accomplish. Granted cost wise the system can get pricey for multiple single camera units but that is the nice thing about IP based cameras.. Introduce a standard network switch into the design and you can plug in multiple cameras all using ONE nano station pair. Here is a extreme application.. Your budy has a retreat a couple miles from you. His house sits in a small valley but behind his house is a hill with direct line of sight to your house. He has several cameras that you would like to monitor and vice versa SIMPLE... put a nano station between the two houses and link his cameras to your system.. Heck if they are IP based you can even see them on your smart phone....WITHOUT THE INTERNET BEING OPERATIONAL...
It may sound complicated but seriously.. If you can use wire strippers, a laptop and common sense I could walk you through it over the phone in about 2 1/2 to 3/4 hour sessions.. its not that complicated.. This is the same tech that the Mexican drug cartels are using for communications and surveillance all over Mexico...
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