I'm using camera software. I
can broadcast Ip video to view my apartment
from anywhere.
With my new
web camera application, I can run a broadcasting tv station
of my apartment viewable online. This opens up a league
of possibilities, the surface of which has not even been scratched in today's world. I can use
this broadcast for surveillance purposes, allowing me to watch what's going on in my site
at any moment from a remote watching pc.
As long as I have the camera
running and a remote workstation with Internet access, I can watch the room.
With the application and the camera, I can change the options to capture picture,
sense movement (if I don't want to keep the camera running at all times),
or use a combination of a live feed and recorded video to implement a protection
system that takes full benefit of modern know-how.
With a capture card,
I can simply transfer related video and screenshots to use on
any station.
With delicate files on my pc
and expensive things in my site,
it only makes sense to have a protection setup that I can monitor whenever I feel that my privacy
is being compromised. If I owned a small company or lived with roommates, I couldn't imagine
living without it.
Web camera software senses motion, sounds
alarm, captures images, records video, and sends captured images by e-mail
are perfect for more than just making online communications
more practical. They can in addition be
an enormously useful device
for exploit in residence or corporation security.
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Application
is now available that can sense motion and use
it as a trigger for several procedures.
The way that
it works is to analyze the picture sent by a webcam that is either attached via USB
or using a video capture device for movement. After it picks up
that motion, it can afterward take any number of procedures,
including triggering an siren.
An other popular software, though, is to either
send live images of what is happening in the scene that is covered by the webcam
or to even broadcast via online broadcasting accurately what is
happening with both sound and image. If installed stealthily,
this software could even be used for covert surveillance.
Given the
large quantity of devices that either have a webcamera connected
or can support one, this is an perfect way to inexpensively and easily guard
the spot around that workstation
from invasion or stealing.
Streaming online video and sound from capture device
through webcamera server application
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If you find yourself with a need to record security video with a webcam over an area,
camera
server software
may be the right choice for you. Using this application, it is possible to set up a
camera to detect activity and begin recording when it does.
Depending on your needs, the sights and sounds that are picked up by the camera may be stored on a hard drive, or if the captured video
needs to be accessible off-site, can be broadcast using the server's broadcasting
function to a website.
Depending on the quality of the webcam and the viewer's video card, the picture that is recorded may be as clear as a high-definition television signal.
Using a install like this, it is possible to provide a measure of security for an area while
the economics of the situation do not justify hiring a security firm or setting up a professional monitoring system.
This
do-it-yourself approach
can save money while not compromising on security.
