Best choice for camera interface

Hi there,

I am going to design a smart surveillance system in which I will be using PTZ cameras with a controller kit. I need some guidance about the choice of processor to be used. Size of the board is not a figure of merit.
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Former Member over 10 years ago +1

Hello abubaker , Assuming you have great PTZ camera's with reasonable till high resolutions then Arduino won't be able to process the video stream and detect motion because it is far too light. As a learning…
Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member +1

abubaker Fortunately ZM is open source and ZM's "zone minding" can be controlled. someone hacked that already ZoneMinder - Wiki - How to control your Foscam HD cameras - PTZ cheers, Fred

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Former Member over 10 years ago

Hello abubaker ,

Assuming you have great PTZ camera's with reasonable till high resolutions then
Arduino won't be able to process the video stream and detect motion because it is far too light.

As a learning process I would suggest to hack one of those cheap Chinese camera' s like in this instructable. http://m.instructables.com/id/Hack-a-30-WiFi-Pan-Tilt-Camera-Video-Audio-and-Mot/
However unlike this instructable that only catches and processes the available streams, completely replace the internal weak embedded system with FramboisePie 2 ;)
The original code of those camera's is available somewhere as I remember from a few years ago.
The maximum resolution of such camera is limited at 640x480 pixels.
This type of camera at its minimum 5 till max 30 fps can hardly cope with that bunch of data and will normally crash and reboot itself sometimes. Clearly a trade off was done for the processing power and internal memory. Positive side of these things is that they have speaker and mic build-in and can see in the dark quite ok assisted by the build-in IR leds.
In the hacking process also suggest to introduce some kind of vpn tunnel with ssl or something because these camera's are basically quite open to the internet.

good luck with your project!

cheers,
Fred
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Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

abubaker,
Of course zoneminder comes to mind ;)
See someone did it already on previous version of Framboise Pie ;)
http://www.holylinux.net/content/raspberry-pi-webcam-zoneminder
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Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

Zone minder is typically for CCTVs not for PTZs.
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Zone minder is typically for CCTVs not for PTZs.
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Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

abubaker

Fortunately ZM is open source and ZM's "zone minding" can be controlled.
someone hacked that already
ZoneMinder - Wiki - How to control your Foscam HD cameras - PTZ

cheers,
Fred
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thanks Fred..
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