So there's a nice rash of thefts around the area lately and I've had a few calls now asking for help with security cams at sites. However these sites are pretty remote. On the fringe of cell service, no power, no internet and have to be mobile to they can move them to other sites.
Customers are requesting a picture to their email on motion, the ability to live view the camera and needs to be all powered via solar + battery. I think this can all be accomplished with a cell phone wireless hub, some unifi video cameras, solar panels, battery and the part I'm stuck on is the VPN. Seeing as this will be running off battery for extended periods of time I am needing something that won't suck back a huge amount of power and can VPN back into my NOC. Not going to be a huge amount of traffic since it will be running off a 3g cell network and I've said that live view will be possible but limited as the data plans are an extreme cost. My first thought is to use Mikrotik routerboard. I currently don't use any Mikrotik in my network, typically for VPN's I've been using an ASA5506 at client sites but I feel that is too expensive and overkill power wise for something that has the potential to be vandalized / stolen anyways. Does Mikrotik sound like the right solution to this and if so I would need to have the ability for the router to join the cell hub wireless network and then route the camera traffic back into my network. What routerboard would accomplish that while being light on the power suck?
