Outdoor camera for construction area

[Jack Haley]

My wife is getting a new building and she'd like to be able to do a timelapse and have remote viewing of the site.

I did a site visit with the site supervisor and he thinks that placing a cameras hlaf way up a temporary telephone pole will present the best view. Our budget is around $100 while also needing a poe injector.

I was looking at Dahua IPC-HFW4431R-Z but it lacks a sd card slot, and I dont know how much I can trust the internet at a live construction site. I'd like the timelapse to be scheduled and saved to the sd card, and then remote viewing available anywhere. I also hope that I can remotely pull the images off the camera so I dont have to climb a ladder to swap sd cards.

What do you guys recommend?

 

[TonyR]

Have you thought about a trail camera? Some will do time lapse, even at night. Of course there's trade-offs (battery life, accessibility of images on SD card, etc.) but also some pluses. You could probably figure a way to power it with an AC to DC adapter, too.

 

[blake]

How far is your site from your residence? If you can have to antennas to have line of sight, you can install a pair of ubiquiti locoM5 units and do the recording from your home and check on the build.

 

[Jack Haley]

The site supervisor has a wired internet connection. If there's nothing else in the price range, I can just point this camera at my blueiris install and hope for the best.

 

[blake]

Hmmm. See if you can get it to work but he might be on a different subnet if I'm thinking correctly?

 

[TonyR]

The site supervisor has a wired internet connection. If there's nothing else in the price range, I can just point this camera at my blueiris install and hope for the best.

Sounds like your best bet.

 

[Jack Haley]

Thanks for the confirmation. I have faith it should work okay.