How to robotize, implement video surveillance?

Question

Programming

Hi all. Help me figure out how to approach the problem.
In general, there is a room in which 100 cages with animals are placed, they all stand side by side and in one row in height.
It is necessary to place such a grid on the ceiling and for a video camera to drive along this grid or not, to be honest, I don’t know how this is done smartly. The camera control should be through the web interface so that I can see and check if everything is in order at any time.
Help me understand how to implement this, advise where to start?
This is what you need approximately, only on the ceiling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BeTapvcqwY

Answer 1

Buy a rotatable camera with optical zoom. This is easier and more reliable than inventing a two-dimensional robot.

Answer 2

you need a server that receives commands from the tablet
via sockets
in the browser buttons - left right up down - by clicking on them commands are sent to the server
the simplest server in C processes commands and through the driver to the motors moves the camera in two dimensions the
server can be made and combined on a tiny board in one block with a camera