Webcam Installation
Monitor a remote location on the web... with ease and security.
The Hawthorne, California Police Department is building a new state-of-the-art police station on
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Hawthorne Boulevard and they wanted to set up a 24-hour webcam over the 18-month construction period to both monitor construction remotely, and to document the project in the form of a time-lapse photography presentation upon completion of the structure.
South Coast Web was called upon to handle the technical side of the installation. We got together and talked about their requirements, met the people we'd be working with and took a closer look at the camera install site. We put together a bid and got the job.
The project involved mounting a wireless web camera atop a 100
foot-tall communications tower pointed at the construction down
below. The wireless receiver for the camera was placed in a line-of-site
window in another city structure several blocks away. The data is
then fed to our server and from there out to the web. The live feed
would update every few minutes while sending archived images to
an FTP server every fifteen minutes. When the construction project
completed, we will assembled key shots over the 18 month period
into a slick time-lapse presentation of the structure coming together.
