Empire Tech Camera recommendation for new detached garage

[Mike Baglini]

Greetings,

I have a sizable garage/workshop that I'm building, 45' wide by 30' deep, 3 car garage and would like some recommendations for cameras to monitor inside of the garage. I think I'm good on the exterior cameras. Are the 180 degrees panoramic cameras something to consider. maybe two of those, one on opposing walls? Is there something that I can put in the middle of the garage that will capture everything instead? Current design is a ceiling camera in the two rear corners pointing out to the garage doors, capturing the side wall windows, and one camera in the ceiling on the garage door side facing to the rear, to capture the rear windows in the building. So, 3 internal cameras. nothing focused on the front side passage door, and nothing as a close-up camera on the door.

Also, what's the best way to capture a face at the passage door, a doorbell camera (no doorbell needed), or a wall mounted camera about 8 feet high (that can get clobbered by a baseball bat)? A camera under the soffit seems like it's looking down too much, but maybe that's better, given it's 12' high.

Any recommendations on what I should be considering?

Thanks

Mike

 

[Flintstone61]

MAybe you can catch the face before the bat with a EmpireTech IPC-T24IR-AS 1/2.9" CMOS 4MP IR and if they wack it, it's only $80 bucks. Meanwhile a doorbell cam will capture the wacker doing the wacking.
or if he goes after the doorbell first the camera will capture that too. I have both.

EmpireTech IPC-T24IR-AS 1/2.9" CMOS 4MP IR Fixed-focal Turret Network

4MP 1/2.9" CMOS image sensor Built-in IR LED, the max. illumination distance is 30 m Intelligent monitoring Built in MIC IP67 protection SMD Plus

empiretech01.com

 

[Flintstone61]

Here the Amcrest 5mp caught the face in the sun before the shadows obscured it. Doorbell image not good in daylight in a dark porch.

 

[Flintstone61]

Here is an 4MP Color4k t180 with warm white LED lights and Color 4k 8mp bullet with warm LED lights in the garage.

EmpireTech IPC-Color4K-T180 4K Full-Color 1/1.8" CMOS Dual-Lens Splici

Dual 1/1.8" CMOS Image Sensor Outputs 180° wide angle splicing image Built-in warm light, the max. illumination distance is 40 m Built-in Mic and speaker supports two-way talk IP67 protection EPTZ function SMD3.0

empiretech01.com

EmpireTech IPC-Color4K-X 8MP 1/1.2" CMOS Full-color Fixed-focal Warm L

8MP 1/1.2" CMOS image sensor Built-in warm illuminator, the max. illumination distance is 60 m Built-in Mic and speaker Supports two-way talk ePoE, IP67 protection SMD 3.0

empiretech01.com

 

[Flintstone61]

Here is the T180 before I down- Resolutioned it to a 1080P stream, like the long strip pics above.

 

[Mike Baglini]

Thank you Flintstone61 for your responses, they are very helpful!! I'll look into what you have mentioned.