1. You are setting up a webcam.
Where will you place it, over what time period would it record and where would it be viewable? Outline your motivations for each of your decisions. Also specify what technology will be necessary and indicate a budget.

I would place a webcam at the entrance to an A&E ward, recording friday and saturday nights, with the information being shown live streaming on a publicly available and publicly advertised website. The objective of this camera would be to record drunken incidents and show others what can happen when you drink too much (or take too much of something), for best effect, people would need to know about the webcam, so it would be advertised publicly and all the information published across various popular websites to try to increase awareness.
For this project I would need a good quality security camera, which would need to be wired up, or sending wireless signals to an internet enabled computer, which would then stream the data to a website. I would also need to pay for a website domain name and a high bandwidth hosting service.
A wireless camera would cost around £200 for a good quality camera and transceiver.
The Computer would not need to be too powerful, a simple internet enabled laptop would do, so around £200 for a new laptop.
A domain would cost about £8 per year, and the hosting could cost anywhere from £7 – 40 per month depending on the service needed.