Recommend me a camera that can zoom

[perfect777]

School has started and the district has moved the bus stop from directly in front of my house to about 100-150 yards away. I have a camera (Loryta IPC-T541IR-AS 6MM) aimed in that direction, but my kids are just a few pixels and my wife has given me the green light to get a better camera to address the issue.

My primary goal is for a camera that has a good zoom that can see this circled area better:


My secondary goal would be a camera that can actually programmatically zoom at select times (during bus pick up / drop off), but act as a regular non-zoom the remainder of the time. It is nice getting a view of the whole street - but we only need the bus stop zoomed in view for a few minutes AM/PM. Does something like this exist?

 

[wittaj]

Ideally it would be a PTZ, but you could use the Z12E that many use for plates, but it isn't good to constantly zoom a varifocal.

This PTZ would work well as long as they are not out in the dark as the IR reach isn't very far

EmpireTech PTZ425DB-AT 1/2.8"CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight IR 5mm–125mm Vari-

4MP, 1/2.8" CMOS 25x optical zoom Starlight technology Max. 25/30fps@4MP IR distance up to 100 m Auto-tracking 1.0 Perimeter protection Face detection SMD 3.0 IP66

empiretech01.com

And then the Z12E

EmpireTech IPC-B52IR-Z12E-S2 1/2.8" CMOS 2MP 5mm–60mm Ultra Low Light

2MP 1/2.8" CMOS image sensor Built-in IR LED, the max. illumination distance is 150 m Deep learning algorithm Built-in MIC IP67 and IK10 protection SMD 3.0

empiretech01.com

Personally I would go with the PTZ to give you more options.

 

[Sybertiger]

PTZ might be what you want.

 

[Ri22o]

I only see a rectangle, no circle.

 

[mat200]

A larger PTZ should work .. good thing for WAF pre-approval