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As a member in a Volunteer Community Patrol Group down in Brooklyn one of the things we want to in order to battle crime is to implement is a Community-wide Video Surveillance System. Being a small community in Brooklyn and the crime n a serious rise we see this as a mandatory thing.
Now the city dose not want to help us out, not with grants nor with permission to use utility poles, so we devised a plan. Most houses have a broadband internet connection and faces the street, so we were thinking of putting a small computer with 3 or 4 cameras connected to it and to the internet. That is something that by law we can do.
Now this is the issue.
Our budget isnt that big, so we cant afford some fancy security company to design such a system for us and we are opting in the DIY [Do It Yourself]. We will set up the systems and do the installation, between ourselves we have enough knowledge in computers itself, but the surveillance hardware is where we have no clue what to do.
This is what we want to achieve. Around 100 cameras from at least 40 different houses/internet connections, a central monitoring station, a central place to store the video, and the ability to once in a while take one set of cameras and make them publicly viewable, so the residents can go on and actually see it for themselves.
Can anyone recommend some solution for such a situation, or if this isnt the right forum for such a request, can you please refer me to a proper forum, maybe even one that dedicates to security and surveillance.
Now the city dose not want to help us out, not with grants nor with permission to use utility poles, so we devised a plan. Most houses have a broadband internet connection and faces the street, so we were thinking of putting a small computer with 3 or 4 cameras connected to it and to the internet. That is something that by law we can do.
Now this is the issue.
Our budget isnt that big, so we cant afford some fancy security company to design such a system for us and we are opting in the DIY [Do It Yourself]. We will set up the systems and do the installation, between ourselves we have enough knowledge in computers itself, but the surveillance hardware is where we have no clue what to do.
This is what we want to achieve. Around 100 cameras from at least 40 different houses/internet connections, a central monitoring station, a central place to store the video, and the ability to once in a while take one set of cameras and make them publicly viewable, so the residents can go on and actually see it for themselves.
Can anyone recommend some solution for such a situation, or if this isnt the right forum for such a request, can you please refer me to a proper forum, maybe even one that dedicates to security and surveillance.