The Infrared Illuminator is key to ensuring that we can read license plates at night.
Correct installation is not hard once you know what to do.
At Neighborhood Guard we believe that a safe neighborhood is based on (and in) a safe community. No neighborhood is an island and the only way to stay safe is to make other neighborhoods safe as well. The little money we have collected from our activities has to be used for the best of our community.
Today it is our pleasure to announce the Neighborhood Guard financial aid program.
Eligibility will be based on the latest US Census Poverty Rate data. Specifically the percentage of residents with income below poverty level. When measures on on smallest possible neighborhood census area.
The neighborhood poverty level information of available from a number of sources online.
For example here is a web-site with the poverty data for Oakland. http://www.city-data.com/poverty/poverty-Oakland-California.html
Zoom in to your neighborhood and click to see the poverty rates.
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NG = Neighborhood Guard Financial aid contribution
Member = Contribution of the member neighborhood group.
Each camera in a typical neighborhood guard setup is hosted by a neighborhood household.
Typical member organizations include:
Link to Neighborhood Guard Bylaws
Your enrollment will not be completed until your enrollment fee has been paid in full.
Nothing is more important that the right location for your camera.
No-one can place a camera perfect on the first try, plan to move it a couple of times until you get it just right. Make temporary installations at first; once the location has proven that it can do the job then make the installation permanent.
Place the camera at natural choke-points, that is where cars naturally slow down. PS. a stop sign is not a natural choke point, fleeing burglars will blast through the stop sign.
Place the camera on the outside of a curve to get the license plate from most angles. Never place camera on the inside curve as you will only get the side of the vehicle
A Key concept of the neighborhood Guard System is the cloud storage. The ability to safely store the recordings away from houses hosting the cameras leads to a number of significant benefits:
The City of Piedmont, CA is sharing the same problems as the communities that has joined Neighborhood Guard: A high rate of burglaries and violent home invasions. Like the members of Neighborhood Guard they want to use modern Security Camera technology to aid solving crimes. But this is where the similarities end.
Tasked with getting a quote for a camera system the Piedmont Chief of Police came back with a 1.1 Million proposal, that does neither include Operations (power and Wireless fees) nor Installation. The proposal is for 57 cameras, which gives a per camera price of $20,235 ! ($1,153,416 / 57 cameras).
Comparison:
Neighborhood Guard $2,200 per camera site
City of Piedmont $20,235 per camera site
Why is Piedmont’s solution so more expensive than the Neighborhood Guard solution?
Is it the installation? No, while Neighborhood Guard is based on volunteer DIY installation, the Piedmont quote does NOT include installation which will be a considerable additional expense. Continue reading
Vandals might try to disable your camera
Enable Tampering detection on your camera
We often get the question:
1) Why are you using the expensive camera Axis P1347-E when I have just seen a complete set with NVR/DVR and several cameras at Costco ?
2) I am considering getting this NVR with 4 system, that do you think about it?
