Robot Overwatch

[zdog16]

So have a funky one that I need some help on. I work at a company that installs IP cameras and we have a weird situation. One of our clients just bought a robotic autonomous forklift that they want to monitor so we got them a 360 fisheye camera and we need to connect it back to the network so it can be monitored/recorded from the NVR. Problem is because the forklift will be moving around we have to use the power available on the lift itself which happens to be 48v DC. We have a switch that can be powered by 48v and is PoE. the camera is PoE so no problems there but we need a way to connect the camera back to the building's wifi. At first we thought we could use a PoE access point in bridge mode but we are having problems finding one that can be powered by standard PoE and not some funky standard.

Here's what we've tried so far

• Ubiquity M2 Bullet (Non-Standard PoE can't power it up with our switch)
• Ubiquity airGateway (Non-Standard PoE can't power it up with our switch)
• TP Link EAP225 (AP only does not support bridge mode)

Any suggestions for Wifi routers/Access points that support bridge mode, or some other solution we haven't considered?

[RollTime]

I don't know the answer to your question, but what does this have to do with Overwatch?

 

[zdog16]

1 minute ago, RollTime said:

I don't know the answer to your question, but what does this have to do with Overwatch?

 

Nothing that was meant to be like the camera is overwatching the robot

[Levisallanon]

i don't really get your problem. PoE is a standard and if the switch supports it, it should always provide the right voltage for the products connected to it to work.
Also an IP camera has it's own wifi connection build in right? so why would you need a acces point on the forklift?

 

[zdog16]

1 hour ago, Levisallanon said:

i don't really get your problem. PoE is a standard and if the switch supports it, it should always provide the right voltage for the products connected to it to work.
Also an IP camera has it's own wifi connection build in right? so why would you need a acces point on the forklift?

 

2 of the routers that we tried will not power up on a standard PoE switch, only with the included PoE injectors which require 120v. We confirmed this with the manufacturers. As far as the camera, we are a HikVision dealer and the customer specifically wanted a 360 degree camera. While HikVision does make wifi-compatible cameras they do not make a 360 wifi camera so we had to use a normal PoE 360 and a switch. 

I was not involved in the pitch/sale part of this project, I was just given a camera and told to make it work. I agree that a wifi camera would have been a much better option but it wasn't my call. 

[Levisallanon]

1 hour ago, zdog16 said:

2 of the routers that we tried will not power up on a standard PoE switch, only with the included PoE injectors which require 120v. We confirmed this with the manufacturers. As far as the camera, we are a HikVision dealer and the customer specifically wanted a 360 degree camera. While HikVision does make wifi-compatible cameras they do not make a 360 wifi camera so we had to use a normal PoE 360 and a switch. 

I was not involved in the pitch/sale part of this project, I was just given a camera and told to make it work. I agree that a wifi camera would have been a much better option but it wasn't my call. 

Okay.
The ubiquity stuff I can imagine not working on normal PoE, they also provide their own switches etc so there is a big chance they have a custom standard.
I would sugest taking any cheap PoE AP you can find for on the forklift and have it send out a network. Then in the warehouse you install a proper wireless router which can run in client/bridge mode to connect to this AP, you can then configure some routes to make sure the packets are delivered okay. That should normally work.