I have a Hikvision 7716 (16 POE ports) with 10 dome cameras, all mounted outside under the eaves of my house. Today I recorded a vehicle driving up to my mail box and helping themselves to a bunch of junk mail (I hope it was junk mail!). The distance is just a bit to far to capture important details, like manuf of vehicle, faces and plate number.
What I'd like to do, and don't know if it is workable, is to install a POE camera, probably a bullet, that would record a plate number and other details. The distance from the corner of the fence to the mailbox is around 15 ft. But if I'm going to go to this trouble, I'd like to be able to record details from both directions of travel, which would be parallel to the aim of the camera.
To do that, I would need to run 150 ft of ethernet, the last 60 would be outside, along the fence rail. And of course, the camera would be fully exposed to the weather and hot sun in summer. I know that is ok for packets, but I don't know about power.
Is that too far to run POE? If it is not too far, what would be a suitable camera? I would place the camera inside the fence to view throught a cut-out it would not be too obvious, I guess the infrared bulbs would be visible to a keen observer at night. I'd rather not fiddle with an enclosure for the camera, but that might be necessary. It would need ventilation due to temps in high 90's and occasional 100's. It would be easy to vandalize then lense in that location.
Alternatively, I may just get a locking mailbox.....
What I'd like to do, and don't know if it is workable, is to install a POE camera, probably a bullet, that would record a plate number and other details. The distance from the corner of the fence to the mailbox is around 15 ft. But if I'm going to go to this trouble, I'd like to be able to record details from both directions of travel, which would be parallel to the aim of the camera.
To do that, I would need to run 150 ft of ethernet, the last 60 would be outside, along the fence rail. And of course, the camera would be fully exposed to the weather and hot sun in summer. I know that is ok for packets, but I don't know about power.
Is that too far to run POE? If it is not too far, what would be a suitable camera? I would place the camera inside the fence to view throught a cut-out it would not be too obvious, I guess the infrared bulbs would be visible to a keen observer at night. I'd rather not fiddle with an enclosure for the camera, but that might be necessary. It would need ventilation due to temps in high 90's and occasional 100's. It would be easy to vandalize then lense in that location.
Alternatively, I may just get a locking mailbox.....