Looking for Suggestions for easy install options to insure needs

[mrbear37]

I am looking to put up some cameras to secure the perimeter of the building while I am away.
Items needed include a video doorbell ( a ring type doorbell , hard wired and secured from tampering with a cloud backup )
A front yard camera ( probably mounted on front corner around a 90 degree angle of view ) ,
a side yard camera another corner and 90 degree view,
and one for the back yard, also a 90 degree view.

This should cover access to the house from nearly any side.

I do however want to have higher resolution cameras for the corners for face/vehicle identification for the purposes of prosecution if needed.
I am attaching a picture I suspect you will need to download it in order to see it as the image displaying below is not correct LOL ..

Thank you all in advance.

 

[jeremyx]

Welcome. One thing worth knowing before you buy: a corner camera set wide enough to cover 90 degrees won't give you faces or plates that hold up, whatever the resolution. At that field of view even a 4K camera spreads its pixels so thin that a person is only identifiable within a few feet of it. The usual approach here is to split the jobs: a wide overview camera on each corner for what happened, plus tighter cameras aimed at the choke points people have to walk through (front walkway, driveway entrance, side gate) for who did it.

For those ID cameras, a varifocal lets you zoom onto the choke point after mounting, and a 4MP camera with a bigger sensor usually beats 8MP at night, which is when most of the trouble happens. The rough target is about 80 pixels per foot at the spot where faces will be.

Plates are their own thing. Moving cars at night need a dedicated camera with a narrow view and a fast shutter, so if vehicle IDs matter, plan one just for the driveway or street.

For the doorbell, a wired PoE model that records to a local NVR helps with tampering, since ripping the doorbell off doesn't take the footage with it. Cloud backup can still go on top of that.

How far is each corner from where people would approach, and can you run Ethernet to all the spots? That changes the lens choices a lot.

 

[mrbear37]

Welcome. One thing worth knowing before you buy: a corner camera set wide enough to cover 90 degrees won't give you faces or plates that hold up, whatever the resolution. At that field of view even a 4K camera spreads its pixels so thin that a person is only identifiable within a few feet of it. The usual approach here is to split the jobs: a wide overview camera on each corner for what happened, plus tighter cameras aimed at the choke points people have to walk through (front walkway, driveway entrance, side gate) for who did it.

For those ID cameras, a varifocal lets you zoom onto the choke point after mounting, and a 4MP camera with a bigger sensor usually beats 8MP at night, which is when most of the trouble happens. The rough target is about 80 pixels per foot at the spot where faces will be.

Plates are their own thing. Moving cars at night need a dedicated camera with a narrow view and a fast shutter, so if vehicle IDs matter, plan one just for the driveway or street.

For the doorbell, a wired PoE model that records to a local NVR helps with tampering, since ripping the doorbell off doesn't take the footage with it. Cloud backup can still go on top of that.

How far is each corner from where people would approach, and can you run Ethernet to all the spots? That changes the lens choices a lot.

Jeremy.. Thank you for your reply..
I have zero practice at running ethernet cables I need to splice. I was hoping to avoid that little process.
As to your other questions. I have 3 points of entry concern. and only the front driveway as a point of vehicle concern.
As I am away from the building, one neighbor has decided its OK to dump stuff in my front yard. /driveway, and I need proof of the behavior.
Otherwise, I will only have 2 maybe 3 access points where face recognition would be needed for prosecution purposes.
The building is empty for the time being, I might put one camera inside for this purpose just in case.
I hope that clarifies your questions/concerns.

Thank you again !

 

[samplenhold]

I have zero practice at running ethernet cables I need to splice. I was hoping to avoid that little process.

Yeah. When I jumped into this hobby in 2018, I too had no experience doing that. But I found that using WIFI cams was a waste of time and money as they always seem to be offline when needed most. So I watched a few YouTube videos and worked out how to do the cable runs and splicing the connectors. Plus lots of help in this forum.

You could buy pre-terminated fixed-length cabling and just coil the long parts at the start of the run.

@jeremyx gave you lots of good info above.