Do you have Sprint coverage?  You could use this and a 750U, it works
pretty well for me (at the base of a 155' Sprint building).

http://www.balticnetworks.com/maxxwave-3g-embedded-m2m-usb-modem.html

I do $10/mo for a few megabytes which is plenty.


Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Jaime Solorza <[email protected]>
wrote:

> With an MDS Orbit cellular router and public IP assigned to you by carrier
> you have what you need whether network camera or NVR.   We have used them
> for water well SCADA sites with LTE connectivity.  Depending on distance
> from cell tower you can use higher gain antenna or a booster.   Sounds like
> fun project.
>
> On Jul 27, 2016 1:49 PM, "Josh Luthman" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>

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