Re: Compact cheap "surveilance" camera

[Prometheus <Prometheus@xxxxxxxxx>]

In article <1151309414.011743.104840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bitsyboffin@xxxxxxxxx writes
>The club is an aircraft club, we are on an uncontrolled but busy
>airfield about 1/2 an hours drive out of the city.  The door lock is a
>combination, everybody in the club is given it.  We have no set "open
>hours", members come and go as they wish, first one in opens up, last
>one out closes, that's the way it's supposed to work at least.  We only
>have about 120 members, so if I can find out people who have left it
>open and make sure they don't do it again, then we can at least try and
>reduce the problem.
>
>So alarm monitoring isn't really the answer here, I don't think it
>would be manageable with the unset hours of operation, and people
>coming and going all the time.
>
>Same goes for card access ( a. cost, b. it's not going to record who
>left the door open, only who initially opened it).

You do not need "card access", you already have a combination that
should only be known to members*, what you now need is a self closing
door which can be easily opened from inside but can only be reopened
from outside with the combination. We have a secure room at work with
just such a system, it works, and it was not expensive. You do not need
to know who opened it, and you do not need to know who failed to lock it
since it locks its self. Your proposed surveillance camera system would
cost more than my proposal. In fact I begin to question why your are so
insistent on a surveillance system, what or who do you really want to
record?


* If it is known to non-members then it does not mater if the last one
out did lock-up.

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Ian             G8ILZ