WirelessEye

Yeah of course with IR it would be better. What I'm trying to say is that it shouldn't need IR. The camera I replaced it with doesn't, because it has much better light sensitivity. Although I saw the new SNC-RX550N looks to be a much more "up to par" offering. If anyone has one of these up (I don't know if they are even out yet), I'd be interested in seeing what it looked like.

LOL Rory, you have all that working off THAT power supply?

It's been VERY foggy here for the past couple months, no new/good pictures to show. Here's a short clip of a wireless/solar powered/thermal unit we have on a 10+ mile link. It shows an individual walking and a semi driving in the background. Both the truck and the person were 1/3 mile away from the camera in complete darkness.

http://www.wireless-eye.com/Micham_Thermal.html

(excuse the quality, something was lost in the avi-to-flash conversion)

I think I could top that installation, since all of our installations are like that-- except increase the wireless range by 10-20 times.

We are working something right now that is REALLY cool. I'll keep you updated after the install and try to post some pics.

We set it up. We played with the settings for the backlight, and shutter priority. We were able to get a "decent" night image from it, but on "slow shutter" when anything would drive by, it would be horribly blurred like time lapse. Not really much you can do about it, the Lux rating is 2.5. The camera we replaced it with is 0.01-- no shutter adjustment needed.

If I were you, I wouldn't use Cat6. It is not worth the hassle. It's stranded wire, not solid which makes *proper* termination much more difficult than cat5/5e. It is also very stiff and much more difficult to route than cat5/5e. My advice would be to skip it, I don't think you'll need it with 900' anyhow.

That's too bad. The 30n is absolutely horrible at night.

I think hybrid systems are what's really fueling the conventional vs. IP war. Hybrid gives you all the benifits of CCTV like reliability and picture quality and all the benifits of IP like ease of management. Once someone gets the right formula (and there are a couple of companies that are REALLY close) then they won't be able to keep product on the shelves.

BTW- I thought the Sony SNC-RZ30N was the best thing until sliced bread too, until I saw it at night head to head against a Spectra IIIse. I haven't seen the SNC-RZ25N yet, is it any better with night visibility?

I think we met you at ASIS 2004. We started ordering stuff a few days ago for some new R&D we are doing, but I have Stacy checking on several other items as well-- we'd like to order it all from you.

Gotcha, I was looking at his profile.

It isn't in your profile. Saw that you were from Rocklin, CA and guessed. We just started ordering from you a week ago and are going to be ordering a ton more starting this month. Stacy, Yvette and Candi are very polite over the phone.

JMAN, you wouldn't happen to work for Northern Video Systems would you?

Typically there's a bit more research involved with solar than "just add more batteries if it dies". But I guess if it's just for a cow pasture... I can tell you that you'll need more than the (1) very small battery that comes the system (in most locations). Probably more like 4. The IR range on this system will probably not be sufficient for most agricultural situations.

Just so you all know, I just found this out last week, the SED-2300Q cannot stream more than (1) concurrent stream. That means, it can only show channel 1 or channel 2 or channel 3 or channel 4 or quad view. It does not have the capability to request separate streams. Don't know if that is usefull info or not to share, but for us, it was a deal breaker...

Don't fret though, I hear they are working on a quad port that will support concurrent streaming.

Say what you will, but I have never discussed in detail how our system works, really if you can't tell how it works from our website, well.. never mind. Are you saying we were dumb to have a website? How silly. Besides, if you knew how a patent actually worked, you'd know that even if everyone went out to build this system or even applied for their own patent, that they would not only NOT be issued a patent since our file date predated theirs. They'd also be in breach of ours.

We filed this years ago and we have been told we're only a couple of months away from it being published. And if you're talking about Adco who does transportation surveillance off of trailers in AK, FL, etc.-- we came before them, and our parent company sells them their trailers.

I wish we could, but in this type of case we cannot recoup our legal costs. What's worse is that their name is really close to ours, and their service (we hear) is horrible.

We are in court because someone else is trying to take our idea and our system design and run with it. Quite sad really.

You are right, the attorneys always win.

We are already in a suit over this. Turns out changing a design by a certain % doesn't pay legal fees.

Easy, our patent describes a mobile or temporary tower based surveillance system that runs on conventional or solar power and streams video back over a wireless connection and/or has a mobile on-board DVR for redundant backup of video.

That sounds a lot like what we do, but what you are planning on doing will not work for a couple of reasons.

1) Power - IR will not work on solar, especially 150' distance. The IR illuminators use far too much power, unless you have a ton of batteries and a ton of solar panels.

2) Legality - What you describe is a system that we've been using for years now on construction/agriculture and we already have a patent pending on it.

Yeah they'll get you for it, I know people that have gotten tickets, although if you're not in a big city you can drive forever without getting cited. I haven't run a front plate since I was 16.

Not having front license plates is a problem whether your state requires them or not. I know a ton of people that only run rear plates and get away with it.

You could possibly use one of the CoVi Technologies HD cams and zoom in on the video from further away due to their higher resolution. You could even use the higher end IQEye cams that can zoom in after the fact as well.

Solar powering would cost more than the camera, but you should be OK with one of the afforementioned cams. Wireless would also work like a charm, and would be super easy considering the real lack of distance involved. It would also probably be cheaper than trenching in cable if the installations are away from structures.

Couldn't tell you as I've never bought a spectra 2, but my best guess would be no.

Really? I didn't notice any change after changing it from 56k to 128k. Of course, I'm streaming it over a CDMA card for testing on another application, so the available bandwidth (very little) might be limiting it.

I've observed the SED-2300Q needing only 56k for 5fps @ CIF, but I might have one of the earlier batches.