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Posted by RW+/- on June 26, 2006, 2:02 am
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> A club I am a member of has a problem, members keep leaving the club's
> buildings unlocked, unalarmed and even with the doors open on occasion.
> All the members are of course entitled to use the facilities when they
> please, they pay for it after all, but the trouble arises because the
> last person leaves for the day and either forgets to lock up, or thinks
> somebody else is still around. It's only through pure luck we havn't
> been fleeced already.
>
> So what I'm considering is a compact and reasonably cheap solution to
> have a time lapse series of digital images taken, ideally, a looped
> recording so it can just overwrite old images as it fills up. That way
> when somebody discovers the doors open I can grab the device and have a
> look to find who was last there and give them an ear bashing.
>
> Something like the "L'espion S" (
> http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/7886/ ) but with a much
> larger capacity so it can take and store an image every, say, 120
> seconds for a week, and even better if it had "night vision". Doesn't
> need to be colour (8 bit greyscale is fine, only need to identify the
> people passing through, not judge thier fashion sense) or high
> resolution (probably could get away with 320x240, but 640x480 would be
> better). Battery powered would be best, but I guess it could be
> plugged in if necessary, but we don't want to have it connected to a
> computer that then has to run 24/7, it would only be connected to the
> PC when we need to review the images.
>
> Anybody seen such an item?
Yes
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