Mikrotik is an excellent choice for an eth/wlan port and VPN, yes. If you get network access to the site with whatever device you can just use a MAP, which is super super light duty and exactly what you need.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Ryan Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > > > >
