For thought and discussion:
So last night I was driving home from dinner and while stopped at a red light at FM2920 and Kuykendahl Rd, I counted eight bullet cameras on the poles each giving a specific view of the roads. Continue driving and at another intersection there is a big PTZ and another bullet. Further down the road the intersection has six bullets. Another intersection had 5 bullets. That's 21 cameras in 4 intersections. Just about every intersection along these main roads here in the Houston area have cameras.
TxDOT has a website that lists some of the cameras and you can view a recent snapshot. But of the 8 cameras at FM2920/Kuykendahl they only show 3 of them. What about the other 5?
Is someone monitoring these? Do they just take a snapshot or are they streaming 24/7? Are they storing all that data? If so, for how long? There must be 1000's of cameras in the area. I guess I would doubt they are streaming and storing. That would take a huge amount of storage.
So last night I was driving home from dinner and while stopped at a red light at FM2920 and Kuykendahl Rd, I counted eight bullet cameras on the poles each giving a specific view of the roads. Continue driving and at another intersection there is a big PTZ and another bullet. Further down the road the intersection has six bullets. Another intersection had 5 bullets. That's 21 cameras in 4 intersections. Just about every intersection along these main roads here in the Houston area have cameras.
TxDOT has a website that lists some of the cameras and you can view a recent snapshot. But of the 8 cameras at FM2920/Kuykendahl they only show 3 of them. What about the other 5?
Is someone monitoring these? Do they just take a snapshot or are they streaming 24/7? Are they storing all that data? If so, for how long? There must be 1000's of cameras in the area. I guess I would doubt they are streaming and storing. That would take a huge amount of storage.