Has Anyone Ever Made A Wireless Camera?

Why wrack your brains?  Just point him in the direction of the "Ring" cameras.  They are wireless (require only a network) and come with batteries.  Rechargeable batteries.  Since I don't do residential, I typically advise the DIY'ers to look at the Ring.  I like the Ring and it is stupid simple to install.  The $30 per camera (annual) is pretty doable.

Axis Companion Cube is also wireless and you can record to an SD card. You also get the bonus of 2-way audio if needed  

Just did this for a friend who wanted indoor Surveillance for their elderly mom who lived in a very large home. They too wanted the flexibility and the ability to move all 4 cameras around. 

They used the ubiquity WiFi access point and everything works flawlessly. No need to open ports and app is free to use.  

Apologies, company policy requires I post discretely. 

We have people ask about wireless but I don't understand the reasoning. If we have to fish a cable to the camera to power it, we might as well home run to a POE switch. The last 10-20' of the camera can be the toughest if over a gable at a front door, patio etc. Once in the attic might as well home run them.

Yes, they make wireless cameras. But they are rarely if ever worth it. The performance is typically terrible, they are extremely insecure, and they still require power. While battery operated models exist, who wants to climb a ladder every few months to change batteries?

If I ever did anything as silly as consumer wireless, I'd use Arlo.  I understand the tinkering part and have been known to do too much of that.   :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FPELc1wEvk

When someone asked for wireless camera, often comes to my mind is it's not really function for:

1. it still need some kind of power (batteries does not last long enough especially when the camera is detecting a lot of movements and cumbersome to change every now and then).

2. wireless signal is somewhat limited when finding brick/concrete wall, so essentially need to add another access point for a larger area and different floor

3. security in the transmission, when a signal jammer is activated the video feed will be lost.

4. when recording locally is what the user wants then the internet P2P is not gonna be a issue, but when user wants to see it from mobile phone then it's another question.

I did install a bunch of Hikvision's wireless consumer grade product by the name of EZVIZ, they are not too bad if you want to look the other way for the above points.

I tried their C6T, it comes with 1080p, limited IR range, but interesting push notification to mobile phone, etc. IPVM did a review on it a while back.

Since you are in Canada, without the ban and all... perhaps that is something that the user's budget may allow you to implement.

You can...

Any Access Point < ---   > TP-Link Nano Router (Client Mode) < ---  > IP Camera or any ethernet device.

Nano Routers are cheap $30 so don't expect them to last forever, I still have one running for about 3 years, I had to reboot it a couple times on occasion.

Expensive Mode...

Any Access Point <  ---  > XPico <  ---  > IP Camera or any device

About $160 for Xpico kit. This is a more robust commercial grade product.

Rasberry Pi (as RTSP Server/Stream and use Wifi back to Access Point) <  ---  > IP Camera.

Around $60 bucks, some nerd skill required so ask your 10 year old to set it up for you.

Use PERCH app and convert old phones to security camera.

Watch those data fees.

I’d like to share my thoughts about cyber security, truing to add something usefull.

If there’s a wireless network, there’s a real security concern to care about. The higher the security, monitoring and the periodic maintenance, the lower the security breach.

In the other hand, an open door where nobody’s interested to enter is a big security breach, but probably there will never be an unauthorized event. So, an open wireless nw doesn’t mean people entering it.

Now, since we are the security consultants for our customers, we need to evaluate all the risks.

Wireless is less secure than wired if wired is phisically protected. And normally that’s the case.

No-Internet connection is good, but doesn’t mean cyber-secure.

Video-security only and no-Internet is better than previous, but also doesn’t mean cyber-secure.

Cyber security has an Internet component, but it is about keeping networked devices safe of  unwanted/unathorized use of the equipment; so even an isolated PC can be used to infect an USB and then gain access to a  network through a vulnerable server.

So for my last home I ran the Hik wireless NVR and two wireless cameras.  Long story short the cameras would barely reach the recorder and you still had to get power to them (a cable).  So what I did was ran the cameras into wi-fi extenders that powered the two cameras.   The extenders were beefy enough to reach the recorder and all was well.  So you would not need wireless cameras for this configuration just a wireless recorder.