Anywhere out in the sticks the problem with cables is long distances to power and communications. Anywhere in a city the problem is that simply digging anything costs a fortune with so many pipes, cables and so on to worry about plus having to reinstate driveways, pavers that are no longer available (so you can’t break even one….) and so on.
Road network monitoring is another application that comes to mind. All the state traffic authorities have control rooms with CCTV feeds of major roads around the cities but, since they’ve mostly been around since the 1980’s or even 70’s, historically that has all been limited to what could be done with cables and mains power or at most via Telstra / NBN infrastructure. Given the cost of setting all that up they only installed cameras in places that were really critical.
For a system like this though, well anyone can have one basically and it’s all dead easy. Logically the market for really easy and cheap cameras ought to be several orders of magnitude bigger than the market for cameras that cost an outright fortune to install due to digging things up and having half a dozen people hauling cables in and so on.
Whether the company can make a profit out of it is another matter of course.
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