{"id":6913,"date":"2013-05-31T16:08:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T20:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2023-04-08T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T21:00:37","slug":"security-camera-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/05\/security-camera-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Camera System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The security camera system at WICC has been installed for a month or so. The greatest feature of this system is the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/blueirissoftware.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Iris<\/a> monitoring software. Two weeks ago while I was out there, we calibrated the motion detection on all four cameras. The results are astounding; there are at least two red foxes and six to seven white-tailed deer, and on the weekends, the place is busier than Grand Central station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nighttime images are interesting, people with flashlights walking down the beach at 1 am and a naked guy causally strolling by the front gate at midnight.\u00a0 I will never go to this site at night without the police.\u00a0 Never, so don&#8217;t even ask. \u00a0 This is a video of a fence hopper with a can of spray paint in his hand:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dtMUfHdZ9hk\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likely he intended some site beautification.\u00a0 His friend is out of the frame to the left when the cameras are spotted. A few seconds later both can be seen running away on the North facing camera. I find that rather funny. This is a still picture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/generator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/generator-650x504.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Iris screen shot\" class=\"wp-image-6920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/generator-650x504.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/generator-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/generator-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/generator-400x310.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/generator.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Blue Iris screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the right-hand side of the screen, one can see all of the triggered events from all the cameras.\u00a0 The Blue Iris software is great, it can handle up to 64 IP cameras and has all sorts of neat features; color coding cameras, recording on motion, night time sensitivity settings, ability to NAT the camera interface to the public network, etc.\u00a0 The Blue Iris also has an iPhone and Android client which will allow remote access to the Blue Iris server and the server can be set up to push events to the mobile device.\u00a0 At $9.99, the app is a little pricey, but for high-security situations, it might be just the ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must also get some signage warning about trespassing and video surveillance and post them on the fences and buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The security camera system at WICC has been installed for a month or so. The greatest feature of this system is the Blue Iris monitoring software. Two weeks ago while I was out there, we calibrated the motion detection on all four cameras. The results are astounding; there are at least two red foxes and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/05\/security-camera-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Security Camera System<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[147,164],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-security","tag-wicc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11399,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions\/11399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}