New House Build camera setup discussion/opinion

[c0redumpt]

Hi all,

Thought I'd post on here to get some further options for my new house build camera setup. Thanks to Andy at Empire Candy and wildcat for all the advice and responses so far. For reference i will be looking to setup a blue iris setup and am really looking at ai facial recognition mostly.

I have a new house extension and renovation build in the cbd, where i have a private rear laneway for a number of houses in the street with mine being the last house of the laneway as per photos attached. Am primarily interested in tracking of humans/facial recognition in the laneway.
Im building a 3 storey extension with the first photo indicating the height of the 3 storey extension in red, with camera locations marked out in red and yellow. At the moment consensus is to go with a SD49225XA-HNR ptz camera at the second storey height level and a IPC-T5442T-ZE turret on the ground floor level (as a spotter??) am pretty comfortable with this combo. The second photo shows the view from end of the laneway in terms of what would be viewed/recorded at a 2metre height.




I'm also looking at some really close range camera for my front portico area between my front door and front fence, this area is quite small and I'd like to be able to view if anyone unwelcome jumps the fence to try and enter through the front door and am able to place camera at any height etc, just wondering if there are any dahua cameras specifically designed for something like this? As reference Ive attached the area between house and fence and a view from the street for reference.


As always any comments and opinions are very greatly appreciated, I know there will be a steep learning curve, but am looking forward to setting it all up

Kind Regards
Anghel

 

[Holbs]

take same pics...but at 10pm. Let's see the lighting

 

[c0redumpt]

take same pics...but at 10pm. Let's see the lighting

Hi here are some photos I took tonight.
Rear laneway at night



Front portico at night



The front portico suprisingly has alot of light available.... rear laneway is quite dark in comparison

 

[Holbs]

I wouldn't even try night color for the rear laneway. B&W all the way....and to toss in some LED lighting to help the B&W out. Can you add your own illumination for the laneway? That would help greatly if wanted to go full color at night.
You have a single light bulb up high above the front portico. If some JOE jumps the fence, their face will be dark & shadowed pretty badly if full color at night (you can tell from the existing shadow created from the wall).

 

[c0redumpt]

Hi again to the ipcam community,

Hoping to get some help with the setup of my rear laneway cameras.... this has become a priority due to the recent break in and trashing of my car parked in the laneway!!! Is amazing to witness how hopeless the local cops are in the city these days

With Andy's assistance I've purchased a SD49225XA-HNR and IPC-T5442T-ZE camera(s) with the view to have both of these setup for the laneway with the 5442 a type of spotter for the ptz potentially. I would really really appreciate the wisdom of the community of where to place these cameras to maximise recording and facial recognition of people in laneway. All advice greatly greatly appreciated.

For reference here is a photo of the rear laneway and my car when it was still in one piece with potential locations of the 5442 (ground floor) and ptz on first storey marked out.

Kind Regards
Anghel

 

[mat200]

Hi again to the ipcam community,

Hoping to get some help with the setup of my rear laneway cameras.... this has become a priority due to the recent break in and trashing of my car parked in the laneway!!! Is amazing to witness how hopeless the local cops are in the city these days

With Andy's assistance I've purchased a SD49225XA-HNR and IPC-T5442T-ZE camera(s) with the view to have both of these setup for the laneway with the 5442 a type of spotter for the ptz potentially. I would really really appreciate the wisdom of the community of where to place these cameras to maximise recording and facial recognition of people in laneway. All advice greatly greatly appreciated.

For reference here is a photo of the rear laneway and my car when it was still in one piece with potential locations of the 5442 (ground floor) and ptz on first storey marked out.

Kind Regards
Anghel

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hi @c0redumpt

I'd want to test the various positions as sometimes what you think is the best position, turns out to be a bit off ..

 

[Holbs]

Hi again to the ipcam community,

Hoping to get some help with the setup of my rear laneway cameras.... this has become a priority due to the recent break in and trashing of my car parked in the laneway!!! Is amazing to witness how hopeless the local cops are in the city these days

With Andy's assistance I've purchased a SD49225XA-HNR and IPC-T5442T-ZE camera(s) with the view to have both of these setup for the laneway with the 5442 a type of spotter for the ptz potentially. I would really really appreciate the wisdom of the community of where to place these cameras to maximise recording and facial recognition of people in laneway. All advice greatly greatly appreciated.

For reference here is a photo of the rear laneway and my car when it was still in one piece with potential locations of the 5442 (ground floor) and ptz on first storey marked out.

Kind Regards
Angh

welcome to the world of "hurry up and put something in so this feeling of emptiness and anger does not repeat" I had same feeling when had a tire slasher. Not once...not twice...not three...but four times.
The happy ending? 6' off the ground camera caught the person's face for direct facial ID. I gave that to police and now they said they can take direct action since could clearly see the face and identify in a court or judge. All these Ring / Nest / Arlo cameras can see a human at 15' range. Could be Elvis, Sasquatch, or Nixon....but for police purposes, you need a identifiable face for them to really start to do something.
My advice? Find a way to put not just 1 but 2 cameras at the 6' off the ground height. Why more than 1? To catch various angles, less blind spots. Not possible? Run 1/2" EMT conduit or find a way to make it happen. Sure, someone with a bat or crowbar can destroy your camera. That is the chance I take to get clear facial ID's.

Now, if you want to go the extra mile... because, remember....camera/nvr system will show you what happened the next morning. To do quick response, I added a home alarm system with PIR detectors outside. This home alarm system integrates with my Home Assistant. Same for when Blue Iris & my Dahua AI camera's detect a HUMAN (though keeps triggering on cats & dogs). My home alarm system is PRIMARY, cameras are SECONDARY. Upon certain triggers, my Home Assistant turns on my smart TV and a buzzer which in turn has Blue Iris's UI3 always running via Amazon Firestick. Basically, when at home I get notified within 1 second if there is a human near my vehicles & house.