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Hi all-
Trying to decide if I should take this project on given a small budget and big requirements.

I need an outdoor daylight camera at my home that will monitor a 100-foot-wide gate area that is 200 to 380 feet from the camera. It's not necessary to see faces or license plates, but vehicles and people should be roughly recognizable.

The camera will be 330 feet from the PC, through some tall trees. I would prefer a battery-powered IP camera in order to avoid running wires -there is no power out there- but cost and battery life will decide.

What are the options and rough costs with this setup? I have seen some very expensive cameras but I hope there are alternatives. I'm willing to sacrifice some reliability, and I'm OK with building my own enclosure, mount and power supply if necessary.

Thanks for your advice.

Well if you are running a wired ip cam get POE adapters. If you want to go 100% wireless use a wireless ip cam with a small solar pannle and 12v battery. Also don't forget diodes on the battery to prevent discharge as for the camera it really depends on what you want to spend.

http://www.axis.com/products/cam_207w/ is not an external camera, but the megapixel does give a much better image at the further distances.

Agree with king about PoE. Use a PoE injector such as http://www.ciao.co.uk/Buffalo_AirStatio ... r__5819772 at the house. Run cat5 out to the camera and have a splitter like http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=368 to extract it to the camera.

House all in a waterproof enclosure.

I have used Solar and wireless before. Results were not great. You'll need to do the maths and use plenty of panels and a hefty battery as wifi uses much more than wired. It will also be much much less reliable than poe/wired. I don't recommend this route unless you are prepared to spend a lot of time fiddling with stuff and cursing the world when you need to check something and you discover it stopped working 2 days ago.

oh and from experance the cheap 50$ ups that on ewith built in splitter can run 2 axis cams and poe switch for 1 week +- a day

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6842101344

Same here, I vote for PoE.

Hello Mighty.

Well, as your name suggests, you are really mighty. I appreciate the courage and for being an optimist. Mighty, regarding your case, what I can advice to you is to go for PoE adapters. They really fit, pretty much amazing home CCTV that's completely securing you.

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In my opinion, CCTV offers security cameras that encompass a vast variety of features that will take care of any security system need. Another feature of these security cameras is that they are weatherproof which gives them the ability to use indoors or outdoors.

i totally agree to it. Good advice!

mighty wrote:Hi all-
Trying to decide if I should take this project on given a small budget and big requirements.

I need an outdoor daylight camera at my home that will monitor a 100-foot-wide gate area that is 200 to 380 feet from the camera. It's not necessary to see faces or license plates, but vehicles and people should be roughly recognizable.

The camera will be 330 feet from the PC, through some tall trees. I would prefer a battery-powered IP camera in order to avoid running wires -there is no power out there- but cost and battery life will decide.

What are the options and rough costs with this setup? I have seen some very expensive cameras but I hope there are alternatives. I'm willing to sacrifice some reliability, and I'm OK with building my own enclosure, mount and power supply if necessary.

Thanks for your advice.

hi, mighty,
it is not a problem. you could solve it according to ours.
1. using a waterproof analog 700tvl camera, it is enough for your request, it it cheap, about $70/pc, no need IP camera.
2. using PVD video balun and network cable to transmit video and power for camera, you could supply power for camera in your house. there are one PVD video balun item recommended in cctvvideobalun, it could transmit up to 300m, enough for yours. it is only $5/pair.