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I’m looking at the possibility of needing to install a covert camera and was hoping I could get some recommendations on hardware that will meet my specifications.
The application I have that I would want to use it in is an office setting where we have had several thefts of money from a locked cabinet. The Office is secured and only a certain number of employees have access, but I have so far been unable to narrow my list down to less than ten suspects. Although I have some fairly good suspicions, my Legal and Human Resources Departments are strongly opposed to any questioning being done without hard evidence of guilt. So I’m hoping to set up a covert camera, most likely looking down through a drop ceiling, to catch the person in the act so that I will have video evidence that I can use to solicit a confession.
I think that to meet my current need, and to be able to reuse in future situations, I would ideally have a micro DVR hooked to a pin hole camera, and I could then place the entire set-up above the ceiling. But for this to work and be easily place able without raising suspicion I would want both the DVR and camera to be battery powered (preferably with a single source), recording on motion to be able to be utilized to optimize recording time, and to have at least twenty four hours of video storage available on the DVR. In this application I don’t think resolution or video quality are nearly as important as how concealable it is and my ability to set-it up and not have to touch it as rarely as possible until I have been notified of another theft.
I have looked at several different hardwarwe set-ups, but cannot be sure of their cababilities without having used them before. So I was hoping that someone with a little more experience in covert surveillance could direct me to a good DVR camera combo that will work for the application I need.
The application I have that I would want to use it in is an office setting where we have had several thefts of money from a locked cabinet. The Office is secured and only a certain number of employees have access, but I have so far been unable to narrow my list down to less than ten suspects. Although I have some fairly good suspicions, my Legal and Human Resources Departments are strongly opposed to any questioning being done without hard evidence of guilt. So I’m hoping to set up a covert camera, most likely looking down through a drop ceiling, to catch the person in the act so that I will have video evidence that I can use to solicit a confession.
I think that to meet my current need, and to be able to reuse in future situations, I would ideally have a micro DVR hooked to a pin hole camera, and I could then place the entire set-up above the ceiling. But for this to work and be easily place able without raising suspicion I would want both the DVR and camera to be battery powered (preferably with a single source), recording on motion to be able to be utilized to optimize recording time, and to have at least twenty four hours of video storage available on the DVR. In this application I don’t think resolution or video quality are nearly as important as how concealable it is and my ability to set-it up and not have to touch it as rarely as possible until I have been notified of another theft.
I have looked at several different hardwarwe set-ups, but cannot be sure of their cababilities without having used them before. So I was hoping that someone with a little more experience in covert surveillance could direct me to a good DVR camera combo that will work for the application I need.
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