Im looking to add some cameras inside my IBAs and was looking to get some input on whats good and bad. I have been in contact with carwashcameras.com and they are recomending a dome camera with very high resolution,veri focal, and is submersible at a very resonable price. Also camera placement in bay. I would think the exit side would be best. Sugestions?
I would seriously consider looking at Geo Vision I have installed six of there systems now and I can't seem to find a better system out there for the money, at one site we decided to go with Axis cameras and a high end ip video recording software called Video Next.. this was a mistake, the system is complicated and very expensive, it works good but I can do the same thing with Geo Vision for half the cost. The last install I did went back with Geo Vision and used there 1.3MP Box cams and some of there 3MP box cams we went total IP and very pleased with the results. When you start to get several ip cameras on a network you must be sure to have the infrastructure to support them, I installed a V1900 series HP POE switch on site and it also served as the power supply to all the ip cams, another thing to remember is that for every 4 ip cams you need to dedicate a hard drive so a 16 camera system we installed a server with 5 HD @ 2TB each for video storage and I always dedicate one drive just for the OS.
As for your question on where to mount in your IBA, I always try to have them mounted so the sun at there back if possible unless you can keep direct sun from being in the scene, this is only a problem when have a dark area of a bay and then the bright sun through the entrance of the bay.
Good luck