Greetings everyone! So I'm gonna paint you a bigger picture on what this project is all about as per the title.
For knowledge sake, as an RE diploma engineering student, my teammates and I are on the threshold of developing a solar-powered remote surveillance system. After conducting extensive research in the first phase, we agreed to implement this smart innovation for our Final Year Project tallying with our course, which harnesses the energy from the Sun through the right solar panel we’ve studied to power up our machine. To paint you a bigger picture, our innovation dubbed Smart-Solar Surveillance & Security (4S) is basically a wireless, standalone, and renewable energy-powered machine which has a superficial appearance of a trolley integrated with a pole transfixed with IP cameras and PA system, and on top of the ‘trolley’ lies the photovoltaic module. The way 4S operates is that users will place it at a definite distance from the wireless Internet source (note that the movement of the ‘trolley’ IS NOT remote controlled; users must manually move it) and the IP cameras (integrated with motion sensors) will detect movement regardless if it’s caused by animals or foliage (users may set the sensitivity on PC) and that action will trigger a notification on users smartphones (Android or iOS) via the cameras’ included app. After that, alerted users can choose to neglect the information displayed as push notification if it’s a false positive or trigger an alarm/siren through the machine’s PA system at the push of a button on their devices to startle the threat/target and people around it. Users can monitor live and also watch a recorded playback of the footage marked with timestamp. Footage will be stored in a network video recorder (NVR) for a limited time span before they’re overwritten and are transferred wirelessly to PC using the same internet connection. The downside everyone must acknowledge is that if 4S is placed beyond the safe and optimum internet range, the surveillance system might experience interruption such as video lagging or worse, drop all away. Furthermore, 4S is embedded with a Li-ion deep-cycle battery to store electricity garnered from the Sun in the day hence supplying seamless functionality at night. The cameras are also of passive infrared to enable night vision.
So what other calculations must I take into account before developing this project apart from a) energy capacity of battery and b) total load power expended (from CCTV system comprising of IP cameras, NVR, PoE and PA system consisting of loudspeaker and warning light)? Thousand thanks folks!
For knowledge sake, as an RE diploma engineering student, my teammates and I are on the threshold of developing a solar-powered remote surveillance system. After conducting extensive research in the first phase, we agreed to implement this smart innovation for our Final Year Project tallying with our course, which harnesses the energy from the Sun through the right solar panel we’ve studied to power up our machine. To paint you a bigger picture, our innovation dubbed Smart-Solar Surveillance & Security (4S) is basically a wireless, standalone, and renewable energy-powered machine which has a superficial appearance of a trolley integrated with a pole transfixed with IP cameras and PA system, and on top of the ‘trolley’ lies the photovoltaic module. The way 4S operates is that users will place it at a definite distance from the wireless Internet source (note that the movement of the ‘trolley’ IS NOT remote controlled; users must manually move it) and the IP cameras (integrated with motion sensors) will detect movement regardless if it’s caused by animals or foliage (users may set the sensitivity on PC) and that action will trigger a notification on users smartphones (Android or iOS) via the cameras’ included app. After that, alerted users can choose to neglect the information displayed as push notification if it’s a false positive or trigger an alarm/siren through the machine’s PA system at the push of a button on their devices to startle the threat/target and people around it. Users can monitor live and also watch a recorded playback of the footage marked with timestamp. Footage will be stored in a network video recorder (NVR) for a limited time span before they’re overwritten and are transferred wirelessly to PC using the same internet connection. The downside everyone must acknowledge is that if 4S is placed beyond the safe and optimum internet range, the surveillance system might experience interruption such as video lagging or worse, drop all away. Furthermore, 4S is embedded with a Li-ion deep-cycle battery to store electricity garnered from the Sun in the day hence supplying seamless functionality at night. The cameras are also of passive infrared to enable night vision.
So what other calculations must I take into account before developing this project apart from a) energy capacity of battery and b) total load power expended (from CCTV system comprising of IP cameras, NVR, PoE and PA system consisting of loudspeaker and warning light)? Thousand thanks folks!
