01-05-2009, 07:47 AM
quote:For under $50,000 I believe I could have about 10 cameras set up to monitor from the Post Office to Pauls Service Station. With today's technology, those cameras could be good enough to at least view images in the dark.
Originally posted by Rob Tucker
Sounds rather weak to me.
If such a vehicle can film effectively for 100' at night without lighting in a 360 degree range you will, for the expense and effort, be covering an effective area not much larger than a postage stamp. Bear in mind there are already video cameras in use with obvious limited effectiveness. Then if you are so fortunate to film a crime at night you will have to identify the perp, usually in the dark, and identify them postively.
You will also have to spend endless hours monitoring the video. It is like looking for a needle in a hay stack at night with sunglasses on.
Good luck. Sounds like fun.
You could set these cameras up to stream on a popular puna site "say punaweb".
Have 4 viewing windows available where users could switch to whatever camera one wanted to view during whatever time you wanted to view it.
Putting the town on notice that there could be some X number of Punawebbers that could possibly be viewing you at some time or another if you were to commit a crime in town could be a real deterrent.
I have never witnessed a crime on this live camera in Waikiki. With the world watching... who would?