Hello,
I am embarking on a camera project for a car wash. 6 self serve bays and 1 automatic.
The current plan is to mount a 12u server rack on the wall above the front door in the mechanical room. Should be enough room for 2 cisco 48 port POE switches, wifi controller for wireless, power, and storage server.
The attachment is a rough plan of where I felt the camera placement made the most sense. I would like each meter box to have a camera at eye level. Also, each bay can capture all sides of the vehicles. The back of and front of the wash has vacuums which have already been vandalized. There are light poles that I could perhaps tap power from and then wireless a camera.
There is def a risk of vandalism and fraud, so rather pay it up front than pay for it later. Aside from destroying some vacuums, they have tried to drill the safes in the bays, busted in the mechanical room and opened one of the meter boxes. This is while the wash was not operating for the past 2 years.
I would like to use 6A CAT, and I presume most of my purchases will be from eBay. Wiring will be ran through the bays in sch 80 PVC either rigid or flexible, as required. Considering its a wash, everything is a wet area.
There is a change machine in the front of the mechanical room. Would like to put a dog wash in the front too, as a future enhancement.
This post is an effort to get opinions and suggestions for this project. It would be super cool and sporty if I could everything purchased and installed before the winter. I am in the midwest, USA so about 120 days to go. The wash is currently not open, so I am bootstrapping the project one paycheck at a time.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read and offer any input.
Thanks!
I am embarking on a camera project for a car wash. 6 self serve bays and 1 automatic.
The current plan is to mount a 12u server rack on the wall above the front door in the mechanical room. Should be enough room for 2 cisco 48 port POE switches, wifi controller for wireless, power, and storage server.
The attachment is a rough plan of where I felt the camera placement made the most sense. I would like each meter box to have a camera at eye level. Also, each bay can capture all sides of the vehicles. The back of and front of the wash has vacuums which have already been vandalized. There are light poles that I could perhaps tap power from and then wireless a camera.
There is def a risk of vandalism and fraud, so rather pay it up front than pay for it later. Aside from destroying some vacuums, they have tried to drill the safes in the bays, busted in the mechanical room and opened one of the meter boxes. This is while the wash was not operating for the past 2 years.
I would like to use 6A CAT, and I presume most of my purchases will be from eBay. Wiring will be ran through the bays in sch 80 PVC either rigid or flexible, as required. Considering its a wash, everything is a wet area.
There is a change machine in the front of the mechanical room. Would like to put a dog wash in the front too, as a future enhancement.
This post is an effort to get opinions and suggestions for this project. It would be super cool and sporty if I could everything purchased and installed before the winter. I am in the midwest, USA so about 120 days to go. The wash is currently not open, so I am bootstrapping the project one paycheck at a time.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read and offer any input.
Thanks!
