I would not make it so complicated and just get some of the Game cameras
that do this already...
On 7/27/2016 2:49 PM, Josh Luthman 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
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Ryan Ray <[email protected]
<mailto:[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?
