bigdavelamb

Hi I am a software developer and have been asked to take 10 images of an object and then send these to a 3rd party system that will take care of the rest. So I am will be responsible for the cameras and collecting the images that I will need to be JPEGS and just send them to some 3rd party software probably by just copying them to somewhere on a network drive. I am new to this area, would I need a frame grabber with some sort sort of SDK, I looked at Geovision but you need to run their software in the background which I do not want to do as I want my own software to get the images at specific times. Cheers for any help. dave

Hi Robin Thanks for the response. I had a look at the cameras which certainly look usable, I met with the customer today and I do not think we are going to be able to use a covered bay as there are large vehicles that will be using the lane as well, so it unfortunately changes things a little, obviously this means lighting becomes an issue, however we have free reign to install any lighting we require (just not covered). I also was wondering whether it may be best to use a Stills camera as I only need one shot of each vehicle. All the best. Dave

Hi I have a specific application, I have cars that drive into a well lit bay, I wish to have 6 cameras positioned around the vehicle and take 6 images of the vehicle from these different angles, I wish to save these images and review at a later date to check if there is damage (i.e. scratches, dents) on the vehicle. I am therefore happy to take Still images of the vehicle and save these if that would be better for quality as I feel this is all about what will give me the best quality to see the damage. Can anyone recommend the best cameras (I assume IP is the way to go as well)? Thanks very much. Dave

Hi Daryl, THanks for the post. This is one of the issues I have been debating, one reason we were going down the DVR road was Windows and frame grabbing cards may well be a bit flaky and prone to the occasional crash as we all know windows likes to crash now and again. We were thinking using a ready made DVR is pretty much 100% stable. 1. Car drives in 2. Input / Alarm fired: 2.1 Starts cameras and DVR records images 2.2 Fires ANPR software to scan image on APNR dedicated camera 3. DVR stores image by time / date / Input Alarm ID 4. Our software stores Input Alarm ID with number plate As long as the DVR can store the alarmID and our system can store this same ID along with the number plate we will be OK. However as you suggest this solution may well be unworkable. I am at the moment still looking into it. Dave

We are supplying boxed solutions to clients, which also will have our own bespoke software which does some additional stuff, I cannot supply clients with a Windows server running applications as it looks unprofessional.

Hi there, thanks for that, I have been looking at the Geovision product, unfortunately I would have to use their software which does not run as a windows service it runs as a standard application, which is not ideal, do you know of any other products? Dave

Hi, I am new to the forum and fairly new to CCTV. I am a software developer and I have been asked to develop some software that stores images of vehicles by number plate. I thought the best method maybe to use a standard DVR to store the images captured by the cameras, then retrieve the images on the DVR and use a 3rd party application to query the images and pull the number plates, basically a client will give me a number plate I then need to be able to retrieve the image from the DVR. To be a bit clearer, a vehicle will stop at our stop sign, pictures will be taken of the vehicle so I will have a consist image of each vehicle. Does anyone have any suggestions on methodologies on this? Thanks in advance for any pointers! Dave