Chap. 1: Scouting of the Main Location

For this first week of the project was mainly sitting down and discussing some details with my parents and going around and scouting out locations seeing where possibly WiFi extenders or hotspots can go and where cameras will be placed at. The discussions took some time in order to finalize some parts of the plan and see if there were any changes. I will have weekly "meetings" with my parents to update them on progress and financial stuff. My stepfather wants me to focus on our main property first, before going on to the second one.

Here is our main property from Google Earth:

The two houses at the bottom left-hand corner have WiFi. He wants to try and expand the coverage to the whole plot of land. And going by the size of the property, the coverage is going to have to expand by quite a lot. I've begun looking into the best way to go forward. Any research or findings on what will be done will be reported, hopefully, in the next post.

Now, the cameras are going to be a little tricky due to them being hardwired when setting up, mostly being due to location. But, I am down for a challenge.

This is the main area where sheep are loaded/unloaded from the trucks and where some cameras will be going:

Outside View -

The farm office is the small room in the back of the covered section.

 Interior View -

There are multiple alleys and lots for sheep to go.

The other place that will have cameras is our new, massive lot barn used for housing sheep.

 Exterior View -

Interior Views (with some sheep for a neat visual) - 

My stepfather hasn't decided yet on what exactly he wants to do here. There are plenty of vantage points to choose from. But, I should know in a blog post or two what we will be doing camera-wise.

Next time, I will be diving in fully and look for the best way to extend the WiFi coverage and seeing if keeping DataTruck as our provider is the best route or if it's time to move on and see what else is out there...

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post!