Many years ago I put up some traditional security lights driven by the detection of movement of (I'm guessing) infra-red generating objects. Classic Heath-Zenith 180-degree motion detector lights from a big box store.
They actually work surprisingly well. Anyone walking through the alley behind our house will trigger them. 2 conventional light bulbs (originally 60W incandescent, now 100W-equivalent LED) would light up the driveway for a minute or 2.
I'm wondering if they would be useful in conjunction with a newly installed IP camera.
For example, at night, IP cameras seem to go into a night mode where they are black and white and use the IR of an on-camera IR LED or perhaps some off-camera IR illuminators to see (record) better. It's certainly amazing that images result at all but they are in black and white. And humans seem to look like zombies or ghostly.
But I'm wondering if, with the detection of motion and the associated triggering of additional light from conventional incandescent or full-spectrum LED bulbs, could the cameras use that light to get back into colour mode.
I'm also wondering what's better for identification: 1) the black and white footage from IR-assisted night mode recording, or 2) colour footage from a camera in daylight mode with light from full-spectrum light triggered by a motion detector?
In my own specific case, I would already have the full-spectrum lights triggered because they exist already (that is, I wouldn't go mounting new ones now). Could they adversely affect the recording of security footage? I wouldn't want to take them down because then I'd be stumbling around in the dark if I wandered outside at night.
They actually work surprisingly well. Anyone walking through the alley behind our house will trigger them. 2 conventional light bulbs (originally 60W incandescent, now 100W-equivalent LED) would light up the driveway for a minute or 2.
I'm wondering if they would be useful in conjunction with a newly installed IP camera.
For example, at night, IP cameras seem to go into a night mode where they are black and white and use the IR of an on-camera IR LED or perhaps some off-camera IR illuminators to see (record) better. It's certainly amazing that images result at all but they are in black and white. And humans seem to look like zombies or ghostly.
But I'm wondering if, with the detection of motion and the associated triggering of additional light from conventional incandescent or full-spectrum LED bulbs, could the cameras use that light to get back into colour mode.
I'm also wondering what's better for identification: 1) the black and white footage from IR-assisted night mode recording, or 2) colour footage from a camera in daylight mode with light from full-spectrum light triggered by a motion detector?
In my own specific case, I would already have the full-spectrum lights triggered because they exist already (that is, I wouldn't go mounting new ones now). Could they adversely affect the recording of security footage? I wouldn't want to take them down because then I'd be stumbling around in the dark if I wandered outside at night.
