Items Tagged With cctv

Submission by Anon.

"SentryPad is an innovative solution to small business and home security and monitoring. The solution gives you live images over the Internet and on Internet ready mobile phones. Motion detection software will alert you via email and sms text message so you can view the live images or archived event log to confirm an intrusion to your property...

The BBC are running the following piece on their News site...

"Wander into your local branch of Woolworths, B&Q, Argos or Homebase and you will see boxes of CCTV systems stacked alongside more traditional homewares. Prices start at under £30 for a basic black-and-white device. Clearly, you no longer have to be a celebrity, millionaire industrialist or politician to have cameras trained on your doorstep...

Rather than wait another few weeks to publish my Home CCTV Server review I've decided to make t a two part affiar. Part one is now on-line...

"I have had CCTV at home for 8 years now in one form or another. Over that time camera performance has increased, whilst prices have fallen. Par for the course where most technology is concerned I suppose. A year or so ago I bought a Samsung CCTV switcher from eBay to view our cameras by modulating its output round all the TVs in the house. Using its simple timer it switched between each camera at a set interval, while this worked it was frustrating as the camera you wanted to view was rarely the one that was on the screen at that particular moment in time. The eBay acquired switcher died a month or so ago and so the search for the "upgrade" was on"...

The IR-POD camera mount provides wireless positioning capabilities.

Controlled by hand-held, TV-style remote, the IR-Pod is a motorized base that pans and tilts a camera. Set-up requires users to plug a camera and a power cord into the unit and does not require computer. Works with any camcorder, camera, or webcam within weight restriction; product is available in 2 versions...

I have had CCTV at home for 8 years now in one form or another. Over that time camera performance has increased, whilst prices have fallen. Par for the course where most technology is concerned I suppose. A year or so ago I bought a Samsung CCTV switcher from eBay to view our cameras by modulating its output round all the TVs in the house. Using its simple timer it switched between each camera at a set interval, while this worked it was frustrating as the camera you wanted to view was rarely the one that was on the screen at that particular moment in time. The eBay acquired switcher died a month or so ago and so the search for the “upgrade” was on...