How to prevent theft of network equipment?

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Aesthetic2020-07-21 03:28:07

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Aesthetic, 2020-07-21 03:28:07

Given: Wi-Fi access point TP-LINK CPE610, in the amount of two pieces. One is on the roof of a residential building, from where it receives data from the provider via a "street" cable, the other is in the customer's premises. By hook or by crook, an unidentified person, having hit the roof of a residential building, simply simply steals our "plate" from the roof, and it happened that they also stole with injectors by opening the provider's box with a grinder.

Question: what can be done about thefts of this kind? Indeed, if desired, anyone can get on any roof, it would be sufficient desire. Maybe there is some option to “embed” a GPS tracker inside the antenna, so that when a thief turns on my equipment in a new place, I can track down both the thief and return the equipment? Or some kind of software solution, if not for tracking, then at least for "bricking" the equipment, so that, for example, without a bunch of keys or through encryption, this antenna would be useless to outsiders?

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

PS Where a thief can install this equipment is completely unpredictable, different areas, a large city, geolocation will certainly be difficult.

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Keffer, 2020-07-21
@Keffer

Don't reinvent the wheel. Put video surveillance at the entrance to the roof and you will be happy.

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Andrey Ermachenok, 2020-07-21
@eapeap

Put the equipment "out of reach" - on the wall from a lift, or by the forces of a climber, or from the window of a tenant of a house ...
But if a thief is not afraid to cut an iron box with a grinder in order to get just an injector ... He will go down the wall behind the antenna behind 5000 rub?

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shurshur, 2020-07-21
@shurshur

If the comrade is so stubborn, then he is probably one of those who believe that antennas are chipping people with a coronavirus. He probably doesn’t have a goal to set somewhere else, he throws it away, sells it for 1000 rubles or sells it for scrap.
You can force the Criminal Code to change all the locks to the attic, and then find out who took the keys in the area around the time of the theft. It is unlikely that a thief will wait for months after changing the lock.

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Rauf, 2020-07-21
@fisher744

Maybe there is some option to “embed” a GPS tracker inside the antenna, so that when a thief turns on my equipment in a new place, I can track down both the thief and return the equipment?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA9wGFSvE1Y minute 1:49