Recommendation for indoor WiFi restaurant cameras
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 7:43 pm
For a restaurant, I want to buy a couple of indoor camera's which, but I don't know which ones yet. However, I have no doubt that some people already have tackled this domain before, so I would like to hear about recommendations. The conditions are that the lighting is generally worse than in a natural environment and I suppose it would be useful if most of the camera's are not easily spotted.
If one camera is easily spotted that just gives away there is video surveillance, but otherwise I don't see the point of telling people more than they already know.
Budget for this would be I suppose 1000 euros for a set of 4 camera's, which should allow for a reasonable camera, AFAIK. High resolution camera's are preferred. E.g., I currently operate a 1920x1080 camera and I think it's quite limited in quality by the time it has been processed by ZoneMinder.
Currently, I am thinking of using WiFi, but I also wonder about security. E.g., if this just runs on a standard open WiFi, the signal can be intercepted, which would be a privacy nightmare, if e.g. the neighbors would just store that same data. Do you run separate networks for these applications in practice? Additionally, I can imagine that with a lot of users, a high bandwidth user (the camera) will face a lot of interference.
It might be that these are mere theoretical concerns, since I don't expect many people to actually use the existing WiFi, because most people have 4G and don't bother to use some random restaurant's WiFi, but it is a concern.
Finally, perhaps there are like standard ways to cleanly install such camera's that they become blended in with decorations for example, such that a normal visitor doesn't see all the plastic directly.
For me this is a hobby, for what it's worth.
If one camera is easily spotted that just gives away there is video surveillance, but otherwise I don't see the point of telling people more than they already know.
Budget for this would be I suppose 1000 euros for a set of 4 camera's, which should allow for a reasonable camera, AFAIK. High resolution camera's are preferred. E.g., I currently operate a 1920x1080 camera and I think it's quite limited in quality by the time it has been processed by ZoneMinder.
Currently, I am thinking of using WiFi, but I also wonder about security. E.g., if this just runs on a standard open WiFi, the signal can be intercepted, which would be a privacy nightmare, if e.g. the neighbors would just store that same data. Do you run separate networks for these applications in practice? Additionally, I can imagine that with a lot of users, a high bandwidth user (the camera) will face a lot of interference.
It might be that these are mere theoretical concerns, since I don't expect many people to actually use the existing WiFi, because most people have 4G and don't bother to use some random restaurant's WiFi, but it is a concern.
Finally, perhaps there are like standard ways to cleanly install such camera's that they become blended in with decorations for example, such that a normal visitor doesn't see all the plastic directly.
For me this is a hobby, for what it's worth.