Thread: Effectiveness of security cameras

I just got an alert as I was reading the post above. I checked it out and it was the cleaner I the lounge.

looks like some cameras are too effective though... Oz is now reconsidering the wisdom of having installed wi-fi enabled chinese cameras in government buildings. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-...ings/101950236

Originally Posted by Buffer

looks like some cameras are too effective though... Oz is now reconsidering the wisdom of having installed wi-fi enabled chinese cameras in government buildings. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-...ings/101950236

1) Government agencies don't use wifi enabled cameras.
2) if you're in a government agency and you cannot stop [any brand of camera] accessing the internet then you are in the wrong job

It's a storm in a teacup and tactic used to stir up sales for US based vendors (who get their cameras made in china anyway)

Originally Posted by Buffer

looks like some cameras are too effective though... Oz is now reconsidering the wisdom of having installed wi-fi enabled chinese cameras in government buildings. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-...ings/101950236

And I've just ordered a couple of balloons from China to watch over my place. Bugger.

Originally Posted by Gamehunter

And I've just ordered a couple of balloons from China to watch over my place. Bugger.

Reminds me of the topic and lyrics in this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7EmLiFWeI8

I have some camera's at my place. The notification's are only useful if a few people live at the house. I have a few flat mates who come and go all of the time + it goes off when a car goes past on the main road. I used to get notification's all of the time.

they are only there to assist any investigation or if I move to a lower traffic area then they'd be good for prompt 111 phone calls. The video quality is quite good.

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

I have some camera's at my place. The notification's are only useful if a few people live at the house. I have a few flat mates who come and go all of the time + it goes off when a car goes past on the main road. I used to get notification's all of the time.

they are only there to assist any investigation or if I move to a lower traffic area then they'd be good for prompt 111 phone calls. The video quality is quite good.

You need to do better. My system has object recognition as well as facial recognition (you can get free software that does this). By the time I get an alert it has had to pass certain object recognition thresholds in specific zones.

For example, front door camera triggers on motion. It only sends me an alert if it sees a person, dog, or cat:

I was pissing around with the AI on my system today, and the mother in law (short asian) was mucking around outside with a big sunhat on... it kept detecting her as a fire hydrant

Originally Posted by Boner

I’ve got a couple of Ring cameras on my section. Alert me if they pick up people and save video to the cloud( a.k.a. Someone else’s computer).

Rate it as I can check alerts remotely.
Only piss around is, it sometimes alerts if it’s really windy and the trees move too much.
Works at night too.

With Ring cameras if you go into the settings there is a 'person detection' mode that will record all motion events but only notify you when it determines that the moving object is a person. Works pretty well.