After browsing through various resources on the web for a solution, I decided to post a query here to see what suggestions others may have (and to hopefully create a useful forum for someone else looking for a similar solution).
We run air quality monitoring sites, and we have become interested in setting up outdoor site cameras in order to see things like weather events and environmental conditions, snow on the ground, hazy skies due to wildfire smoke, etc. I would like a system with four cameras capable of saving four images at set time intervals, and store the images on site for retrieval later, if needed. I’m shooting for a $500 - $1000 per site budget.
Two most important things:
1. Camera with image quality good enough to identify meteorological conditions.
2. A network storage device (NVR, NAS) capable of storing still images at set intervals, with a manageable file system.
The first camera I was becoming set on (before we were thinking more than one camera) was the Axis M1114-E. This camera appeared to be very good quality and was able to FTP snapshots of streaming video to a NAS at set intervals. After I started thinking about four cameras, I decided that maybe we should have one NVR per site with four PoE cameras connected to it, and let the NVR do all the work capturing images at set intervals and storing them. That brought me to the Hikvision 7604 NVR, but I didn’t find the manual to be all descriptive and was uncertain that the NVR could do what I want it to.
Any ideas, advice, or experience with these requirements? Perhaps I am expecting too much on that budget.
Thanks!
