- Aug 30, 2014
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A small victory
Just wanted to share a little story and some quick videos from my surveillance cameras.
This one is the first system I purchased just because I've been pondering with the idea of installing some cameras. At the time, I had no reason to be worried and it was just something to play with. Two days after initial installation and tinkering with settings and configurations, I found this little video in one of the motion detection alerts.
Oh oh, what the hell? How long has this been happening? Well, I'm definitely not satisfied with my $200 analog QSee system now. I need to do some research and see what other options I have. Quick google search, and BOOM! ipcamtalk.com forums seems like a good place to start. Let the research begin. Just like many of you, I gained valuable information and understanding from these forums of this fun and scary surveillance world. Nevertheless I decided to just take it easy and buy a couple of IP cams to start. After setup and management using BlueIris software I started to consider purchasing a NVR, but wasn't too sure about it. So far, BlueIris was good enough for my needs although I didn't have a decent computer to run more than 2 cameras.
Almost 6 months passed without any issues! Maybe the fact I have more cameras outside is keeping crooks from venturing this way. Who knows, maybe it was just an isolated incident to begin with... WRONG!
DS-2CD2032-I with 12mm lens
DS-2CD2332-I with 2.8mm lens
Motherf...! Why did my wife left the van unlocked! She claims that was our daughter that was playing with the remote and unlocked it, but I know better. Either way, got these little crooks looking for opportunities and they found one in my driveway. As you can see in the first video his face of "accomplishment" once he found the vehicle unlocked, but thanks to the video I was able to see that around second 19-20 of the recording he touched the back of the van's doors while fleeing with his accomplices. Big mistake! Did I mentioned I manage two AFIS systems for the state? Not only I have video, but might also have fingerprints... Let's see...
That might work! Well, time to call the cops and get a report. Before they arrived I burned a DVD with all evidence on it. Video clips, fingerprint photos and snapshots from BlueIris.
Once the cops came in and looked at all the evidence guess what! A patrol unit in the neighborhood that night, stopped 3 teenagers a few blocks from my house because it looked that they were checking car doors. When they questioned them, they found no evidence of any stolen property or wrongdoing, so they left them go not before getting their names, ages and home addresses! To my surprise the patrol officer was on duty and was able to ID the crooks! Two 17 years old and a 14 years old from the neighborhood a mile away. Since they had clear evidence and positive id of one of them, they left my house to pay them a visit at theirs. Got a phone call less than 30 minutes later from one of the officers just to let me know that all 3 were arrested and charged with auto burglary and en route to the local juvenile center for booking! BOOM! At least those 3 will think twice before venturing this way again.
Only bad thing of this experience is that now I have an extra 2032 camera and new Hikvision NVR, since I want to record 24/7. After all, it should be money well spent. Let's just hope I don't have to deal with any of that again.
To IPCAMTALK.COM forums and all the people that takes time to help others and share their expertise; to all of you I say THANK YOU!
Just wanted to share a little story and some quick videos from my surveillance cameras.
This one is the first system I purchased just because I've been pondering with the idea of installing some cameras. At the time, I had no reason to be worried and it was just something to play with. Two days after initial installation and tinkering with settings and configurations, I found this little video in one of the motion detection alerts.
Oh oh, what the hell? How long has this been happening? Well, I'm definitely not satisfied with my $200 analog QSee system now. I need to do some research and see what other options I have. Quick google search, and BOOM! ipcamtalk.com forums seems like a good place to start. Let the research begin. Just like many of you, I gained valuable information and understanding from these forums of this fun and scary surveillance world. Nevertheless I decided to just take it easy and buy a couple of IP cams to start. After setup and management using BlueIris software I started to consider purchasing a NVR, but wasn't too sure about it. So far, BlueIris was good enough for my needs although I didn't have a decent computer to run more than 2 cameras.
Almost 6 months passed without any issues! Maybe the fact I have more cameras outside is keeping crooks from venturing this way. Who knows, maybe it was just an isolated incident to begin with... WRONG!
DS-2CD2032-I with 12mm lens
DS-2CD2332-I with 2.8mm lens
Motherf...! Why did my wife left the van unlocked! She claims that was our daughter that was playing with the remote and unlocked it, but I know better. Either way, got these little crooks looking for opportunities and they found one in my driveway. As you can see in the first video his face of "accomplishment" once he found the vehicle unlocked, but thanks to the video I was able to see that around second 19-20 of the recording he touched the back of the van's doors while fleeing with his accomplices. Big mistake! Did I mentioned I manage two AFIS systems for the state? Not only I have video, but might also have fingerprints... Let's see...
That might work! Well, time to call the cops and get a report. Before they arrived I burned a DVD with all evidence on it. Video clips, fingerprint photos and snapshots from BlueIris.
Once the cops came in and looked at all the evidence guess what! A patrol unit in the neighborhood that night, stopped 3 teenagers a few blocks from my house because it looked that they were checking car doors. When they questioned them, they found no evidence of any stolen property or wrongdoing, so they left them go not before getting their names, ages and home addresses! To my surprise the patrol officer was on duty and was able to ID the crooks! Two 17 years old and a 14 years old from the neighborhood a mile away. Since they had clear evidence and positive id of one of them, they left my house to pay them a visit at theirs. Got a phone call less than 30 minutes later from one of the officers just to let me know that all 3 were arrested and charged with auto burglary and en route to the local juvenile center for booking! BOOM! At least those 3 will think twice before venturing this way again.
Only bad thing of this experience is that now I have an extra 2032 camera and new Hikvision NVR, since I want to record 24/7. After all, it should be money well spent. Let's just hope I don't have to deal with any of that again.
To IPCAMTALK.COM forums and all the people that takes time to help others and share their expertise; to all of you I say THANK YOU!
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