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How to install video surveillance in your 360 SHOOTHOUSE!

Enhance your after action reports!!

For installations for your shoothouse call 321 795 7588!

This is a project where we will be installing a Video Surveillance System inside of a live fire 360 degree shoot house! This will be used for after action reports. This is a great way of training, and running teams through a live fire scenarios of Dynamic Breach, and Close Quarter Marksmanship, and to allow the team members to review the video sequences of securing a "house", "building", or a "boat".

For more info about video surveillance in a shoothouse, or firing range email at sales@scorpiontheater.com, or call 321 795 7588.

This style of a shoothouse is used by S.W.A.T, Special Ops, Sherrif's, LE, ICE, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, FBI, HomeLand Security, and with the Intelligence Communities.

First you will need to look at your shoot house.

Is there power at the shoothouse site?

Is it inclosed, or is it under a pole barn?

Will the equipment be protected, or exposed to the weather?

Where will the DVR, and the monitor be stored?

How will the team review the video, and engage in the After Action Report?

Will this be an open air, or an enclosed classroom?

Will other agencies, and LE be using the shoothouse?

How do you protect the cameras from flying brass?

What is the best camera positions to view the breaching of the entrance, and clearing room by room?

Would you want a camera mounted high to look down on the "maze".

How will you signal time start, time stop, and emergency cease fire?

The following pictures, and descriptions will be from a live fire shoothouse. The site location will remain anonymous for security purposes. We will not go in to the Shoothouse design, or specifications.

The shoothouse has a perfectly flat concrete floor to minimize richochet. The walls are steel with 3/4 plywood covering. Entrances are specially designed Breach Doors. The shoothouse has a pole barn for a roof.

In this installation an 8 channel DVR is used for 8 cameras.

The cameras chosen for this install are "ball" cameras that have impact resistance, and have a Vari Focal Lens of 2.8mm - 12mm, and have an IR capability of 30 feet rated at 60 feet of IR in the Specification Sheet. Measure the camera mount position to the viewing area, and double this distance for your IR distance if used in dard environments, or used at night time. Note video using IR will be in black, and white.

Cameras are mounted near the top of the walls looking down toward the room's entry door. The vari focal cameras are set for the widest viewing angle possible. Note that wide angle lenses create a distance distortion. Things will appear farther away in the video compared to real life. To minimize distance distortion then set the cameras away from super wide viewing angles. The trade off is to get as much of the room as possible in this installation, and distance distortion is not of the essence.

The equipment will be stored in a Conex. This installation is exposed to extreme summer heat, and humidity. This has been taken in to account during the Site Survey prior to construction of the pole barn, and shoot house.

The after action report will be peformed outside of the conex, and a second monitor has been wired to a pole to be used in an open air environment. A monitor is also located in the conex with the DVR.

An 8 channel 12 volt power supply feeds power to all of the cameras, and to a strobe / siren combination to alert timed events, and cease fire conditions. The strobe / siren is controlled by a simple door bell in the conex, and also a second door bell is located in the shoot house in the main hallway.

FENCE POST COVERT CAMERA

360 LIVE FIRE SHOOT HOUSE

COVERT FENCE POST CAMERA!

Here is a project where someone is stealing fuel. We are going to set up a covert camera to catch the thief. We will be using the board camera from a covert motion detector called the CPIR. I highly recommend this board camera as it works in low light environments such as nightclubs, and bars. It will need some beer neon signs, or rope lighting, or black lights to give it enough lighting to allow the camera to work in low light environments.

We have selected a 4X4 post that was already on site. It is weather beaten, and it will look natural in the environment that it will be placed in to.

The 4X4 post has been split with a table saw, and then hollowed out. You can use a router to hollow out a "shaft" from where the camera will be located to the bottom of the post to allow the wiring to hide inside of the post.

The board camera has to be as close to the surface as possible. If it is not then you will get a tunnel effect such as looking through the cardboard tube from a roll of paper towels.

This is for a short term surveillance. Please note that there is no weather proofing involved with this install. The camera is out of the weather unless the rain trickles through the hole. The camera's board will tarnish, and it will suffer from corrosion, and it will cease to work.

We suggest you bring in the post from out of the weather when you have finished using the post for surveillance so that you may use it again for your next situation.

The wiring has been run down the fence line, and then hidden by tossing dirt on top of it, and placing leaves, and debris to make it "blend" in.

Where the wiring leaves the fence line, and has to travel to the building, and then find it way inside is a real trick. I have hidden the wire along the bottom of the building, and then brought the wiring behind the water spout from the roof gutters. The wiring has been hidden behind the water spout, and enters the building at the false ceiling heigth where it travels through the lobby in to an office where the recording equipment is located.

I used silicone sealant to hold the wire in place as it comes from the fence line, and wraps around a pipe and follows the building to the gutter. Dirt was throw on to the sealicone sealant to cover the wire to make it covert, and well hidden.

Twigs, and leaves were placed on the dirt to give it the "outdoor" appearance.

This is the 500 gallon fuel site where fuel is being stolen. Gas is at $4.10 a gallon.

4X4 post was on site, and it was weather beaten.

We are hollowing out the post for the camera, and wiring.

This is the view up the post. We do not normally hollow out this much. We did this for the photo.

CCTV Outlet. Model CPIR. We removed the board camera to install in the post.

Preparing the wood for the camera. We need to get to the surface for the camera to look out.

This is a mock up as we route out the wood working our way to the surface.

Using a battery operated monitor we are checking the camera view prior to the intallation of the post.

Wiring is following the fence line to the building. Note: Electricity, and fuel is a hazard!

Covert hiding of the wiring! We are bending the wire around this pipe, and using silicone sealant.

This is the wire following the building, and hiding behind the drain pipe, and going up behind the pipe.

This is the view of the hidden wiring. Covert installs require some ingenuity!

The wire goes up the drain pipe, and then enters the building behind the drain pipe, and in to the false ceiling.

Making the the installation look natural with twigs, and leaves.

Another successful installation!

Hey! Where is the covert camera? It is the post on the left!

There's the camera! Note how we hammered in rusty nails, and screws to the post.