CCTV recommendations

[Pond digger]

I want to monitor the farm drive and need to be able to clearly read car number plates at up to 35 meters, day & night. There is a direct line of sight from camera site to farmhouse, so wireless is a possibility. Any recommendations please?

 

[Boomerang]

I want to monitor the farm drive and need to be able to clearly read car number plates at up to 35 meters, day & night. There is a direct line of sight from camera site to farmhouse, so wireless is a possibility. Any recommendations please?

Do you want live real time monitoring or would a video clip ,or image taken by PIR do the job ?
You could try a trail camera !!

 

[Pond digger]

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Do you want live real time monitoring or would a video clip ,or image taken by PIR do the job ?
You could try a trail camera !!

Thanks, but I need real time monitoring,and a good sharp image.

 

[Clive]

If you can get power and Wi-fi to the cam then a nest cam would be a high quality easy to set up option ?

 

[How much]

its quite difficult to get no plate visibility or recognition at night as the combination of glare of the car head lights effect the picture and reflection off the number plate if you use infra red to see it . i would suggest that the camere needs to be mounted high up to avoid the light glare in the first instance
i dont think anything in the cheap budget will do it , daytime is another matter and pretty easy.
my gut feeling is that to get reliable no plate visibility you will need another external light source illuminating the vehicle, that would allow the camera adjust for the glare and if the number plate is illuminated at an angel to the camera it should not reflect back to its lens
As that will need power for the light so i think you would need to put a cable in anyway and a pretty high resolution camera like megapixel one with them you can zoom right in on the number plate and the picture not be so pixelated you cant make out the number plate.
in terms of brands Hikvision using a IP system rather than traditional coaxial cable ( that is the norm now anyway ) , maybe something like Swann will work , but you wolud be sick if on the one dark wet night you need to id a number plate and the camera in that condition came up short.

 

[Still Farming]

Yale very good too.

 

[Pond digger]

its quite difficult to get no plate visibility or recognition at night as the combination of glare of the car head lights effect the picture and reflection off the number plate if you use infra red to see it . i would suggest that the camere needs to be mounted high up to avoid the light glare in the first instance
i dont think anything in the cheap budget will do it , daytime is another matter and pretty easy.
my gut feeling is that to get reliable no plate visibility you will need another external light source illuminating the vehicle, that would allow the camera adjust for the glare and if the number plate is illuminated at an angel to the camera it should not reflect back to its lens
As that will need power for the light so i think you would need to put a cable in anyway and a pretty high resolution camera like megapixel one with them you can zoom right in on the number plate and the picture not be so pixelated you cant make out the number plate.
in terms of brands Hikvision using a IP system rather than traditional coaxial cable ( that is the norm now anyway ) , maybe something like Swann will work , but you wolud be sick if on the one dark wet night you need to id a number plate and the camera in that condition came up short.

Many thanks. I thought it might be a bit of an ask to get clear night time id, but I guess anything is possible at a cost.

 

[Still Farming]

Many thanks. I thought it might be a bit of an ask to get clear night time id, but I guess anything is possible at a cost.

No our basic yale camera for £80 has day and night and data mini sd storage and links to mobile phone with alerts etc.etc.very good

 

[Ukjay]

Ideally to give you the best option, you would use an ANPR camera, the cost of them have dropped quite significantly now, so around £300 will get you one. However - some models are not the best as a dual purpose offering - so you are sometimes better to add another general camera alongside to have clearer video footage of the whole area, and then dedicate the ANPR for number plate recognition only.
The reason you use ANPR is that the Day / Night camera sensors struggle with the high refelctivity of number plates, and often wash them out in white. During the day - it is not such a problem - as the vehicle headlights are not on.
Just as an example:

These give some video footage of how they work

Just my personal opinion.

 

[Still Farming]

With fake plates and coppers not doing anything headaches all round ?

 

[Pond digger]

No our basic yale camera for £80 has day and night and data mini sd storage and links to mobile phone with alerts etc.etc.very good

Ok, I'll take a look, thanks.

 

[Still Farming]

Ok, I'll take a look, thanks.

Toolstation cheaper also.
I know maplins gone up screensaver I had.

 

[John]

We have a few Swann cameras round the yard and at the main gate we use a wireless bridge to get the pictures back to office where the box is.
They are ok but spiders are a pain in the arse they must like the ir

 

[Pond digger]

We have a few Swann cameras round the yard and at the main gate we use a wireless bridge to get the pictures back to office where the box is.
They are ok but spiders are a pain in the arse they must like the ir

Crawling over the ir trigger? Or over the camera lens?

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

With fake plates and coppers not doing anything headaches all round ?

Anyone upto no good with even half a brain cell is driving round with cloned plates.

 

[Kidds]

Anyone upto no good with even half a brain cell is driving round with cloned plates.

I agree but think you might be overestimating the intelligence of such folk.

 

[John]

Anyone upto no good with even half a brain cell is driving round with cloned plates.

We use them more to check before we go out if we hear something strange or if an alarm goes off. Better to know before you walk round the corner and find somebody. The one at the bottom of drive by our electric gate sees a lot of different things with people driving right up to the gate to see if it's opens or backing out at full speed after tailgateing somebody else then wondering if the will get out.

 

[JP1]

I want to monitor the farm drive and need to be able to clearly read car number plates at up to 35 meters, day & night. There is a direct line of sight from camera site to farmhouse, so wireless is a possibility. Any recommendations please?

Access control gate with fixed camera with number plate recognition software

Expensive but reliable

 

[joe soapy]

Crawling over the ir trigger? Or over the camera lens?

They put their webs across the lens,, Who knew a web was a pipe with internal discs maintaining its shape

 

[Ukjay]

The way around that is to use remote IR illuminators and turn off the in built camera IR. The reason the webs wipe out the picture is that the built in IR bounces right back at the lens at night and the sensor is overloaded.

By using separate IR iluminators (which are a lot better anyway imho) - you practically avoid the feedback intensity you get with built in IR, also - the IR illumination field has less hot spots seen with camera IR.