Hello all.
Long story as short as possible:
I live in a region that suffers from consistent (and fairly grave) police abuse.
I won't get into the specifics but safe to say, this isn't the sort of thing that would be tolerated anywhere other than a 3rd World dictatorship. Our systems of recourse for this kind of thing are absurd. They demand that police officers be investigated by other police officers, who naturally have no integrity in such matters. The court systems trust anything a police officer says by default, meaning that abusive officers know they can lie abut their actions and the courts will believe them, not you.
From time to time, though, as we all know, technology has broken through this charade of accountability and left officers unable to deny their abuses.
I wish to develop an in-car camera system that has the following capabilities.
1) Full (and clear) video and audio, from both in the car and outside.
2) Footswitch activated. When the footswitch is depressed, all audio and video starts recording.
3) The hardware needs to be covert. I have to be able to mount it in such a way that it's essentially undetectable via casual looking. I'm not afraid to take a cars interior apart and drill holes, if need be.
4) This seems to be the hard part- I'd like it to broadcast the streaming video wirelessly, via some sort of 4g connection, to an off-site server. In the event the recording is discovered (or if I find myself in a situation where I have to reveal its presence to get them to stop beating me- seriously, the situation around here is that bad), I cannot have the recording vulnerable to their destroying it.
4a) If (4) is totally impractical, I need to make the receiving system small enough that I can store it in an extremely secure, welded box that won't relent to a baton or a hammer.
I'm pretty smart with being able to follow directions, have no trouble thinking outside the box but I don't have any experience in engineering electronics systems, so I don't know what protocols or parts are available to me.
Any ideas appreciated. I'm starting from Ground 0 on this, but wish to have a working prototype in a month.
Long story as short as possible:
I live in a region that suffers from consistent (and fairly grave) police abuse.
I won't get into the specifics but safe to say, this isn't the sort of thing that would be tolerated anywhere other than a 3rd World dictatorship. Our systems of recourse for this kind of thing are absurd. They demand that police officers be investigated by other police officers, who naturally have no integrity in such matters. The court systems trust anything a police officer says by default, meaning that abusive officers know they can lie abut their actions and the courts will believe them, not you.
From time to time, though, as we all know, technology has broken through this charade of accountability and left officers unable to deny their abuses.
I wish to develop an in-car camera system that has the following capabilities.
1) Full (and clear) video and audio, from both in the car and outside.
2) Footswitch activated. When the footswitch is depressed, all audio and video starts recording.
3) The hardware needs to be covert. I have to be able to mount it in such a way that it's essentially undetectable via casual looking. I'm not afraid to take a cars interior apart and drill holes, if need be.
4) This seems to be the hard part- I'd like it to broadcast the streaming video wirelessly, via some sort of 4g connection, to an off-site server. In the event the recording is discovered (or if I find myself in a situation where I have to reveal its presence to get them to stop beating me- seriously, the situation around here is that bad), I cannot have the recording vulnerable to their destroying it.
4a) If (4) is totally impractical, I need to make the receiving system small enough that I can store it in an extremely secure, welded box that won't relent to a baton or a hammer.
I'm pretty smart with being able to follow directions, have no trouble thinking outside the box but I don't have any experience in engineering electronics systems, so I don't know what protocols or parts are available to me.
Any ideas appreciated. I'm starting from Ground 0 on this, but wish to have a working prototype in a month.