I got an airlink101 wireless camera at home for similar purposes.  I got
it at Fry's for about $100.
http://www.airlink101.com/products/internet_camera_chart.php

looking quickly doesn't look like only one of them supports PoE....

Geoff

Kurt Buff wrote:
> I thought about that, but a couple of things militate against it: the
> server room is buried in the middle of the building, and I don't want
> the signal on the production network - I'm going to place the cams
> outside of our firewall.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 13:35, Eric Kahklen <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Have you looked at any of the wireless webcams? I haven't used one
>> personally.  It might be overkill, but my brother got a nice camera setup
>> from Costco for monitoring his building.
>>
>> Eric
>> On Dec 11, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Kurt Buff wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:43, Brian Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On 12/11/09 10:22 AM, Kurt Buff wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been tasked with making a recommendation for a web cam that
>>>>> will monitor the parking lot at $WORK, for weather purposes, not
>>>>> surveillance - some folks want to be able to check on snow
>>>>> accumulation before leaving the house. Thus, I don't need to do TPZ or
>>>>> stream video, but do need a picture of the parking lot around once a
>>>>> minute or so. Don't need sound, either.
>>>>>           
>>>> They do more than you need, but I really like the Axis IP cameras. They
>>>> have models that do PoE. you can grab an image off them with a cronjob
>>>> and post it to a webpage someplace for coworkers to check.
>>>>
>>>> And they run Linux :)
>>>>
>>>> Brian
>>>>         
>>> Heh. Linux is good...
>>>
>>> But, they're really expensive. Definitely overkill. If we were doing
>>> surveillance, I'd vote for them in a heartbeat.
>>>
>>> Kurt
>>>       
>> --
>> Eric Kahklen
>> [email protected]
>> 206-595-2934
>>
>>
>>     

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