How To Turn Thirty Dollar Web Camera Into Home Surveillance System

April 2nd, 2010


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Web cameras are really inexpensive these days. With no technical knowledge, you can hook up one or several camerass to your PC and create own surveillance system, much like CCTV (closed curcuit television). But you’ll need the right tools first.

Active WebCam

Active WebCam captures images up to 30 frames per second from any video device including USB and Analog cameras, TV-boards, Camcorders and Network IP cameras. The program broadcasts captured content or from your computer or uploads it to FTP server. Broadcasting can be viewed using any Internet browser; no plug-ins or downloads required. The program performs simultaneous recording and broadcasting from unlimited number of cameras. Your camera / cameras can be used as surveillance system. When the program detects motion in the monitored area, it sounds alarm, e-mails you captured images, starts broadcasting, or records video. Live broadcasting as well as recording can be password protected that all video and audio information are scrambled and cannot be viewed without valid password. The program has features to place image overlays and date/time stamp on each video frame, and adjust picture size / quality.

Free Download: http://www.deprice.com/activewebcam.htm

Blue Iris

Blue Iris is professional-grade software utilizing the latest video software technologies, including MPEG and Windows Media webcasting. Watch your home, cars, and valuables. Watch your pets. Watch your kids. Watch your nanny, babysitter, or your friends. Use up to 12 cameras, the $20 kind, or your digital camcorders. Use motion detection, audio detection, or capture continuously. Overlay text and graphics. Use the built-in web server, or post to a website. Receive alerts via loudspeaker, e-mail, instant messaging, or phone. Updates and support included.

Video Security:

* Use motion or audio sensing to trigger recording, or record continuously or periodically.

* Images may be captured as either JPEG images, MPEG movies or Windows Media movies (full version).

* Receive alerts via loudspeaker, email, instant message, voice phone call, or external program/script.

Friendly Interface:

* The initial view shows live views on the left, and a list of clips on the right.

* When you size the window, the main image sizes with you.

* Click on a camera view or clip to open it.

* Click on the image to zoom in or out.

* A status bar at the bottom lets you know what Blue Iris is doing, and provides help when you pass the cursor over windows and controls.

Powerful Clip Viewer:

* There are controls for playback and stepping frame by frame. A position slider allows random access to any point in the video.

* Zoom and Pan functionality.

* Control the speed of playback (audio as well as video) and the audio volume.

* Automatically archive and retire images.

WebCam Features:

* Built-in multithreaded web server, supports authentication.

* Post images to a remote web server.

* Broadcast MPEG, a JPEG image stream to a Java client applet.

* Perform “true” webcasting using leading-edge Windows Media Technologies such as variable and multiple-bitrate encoding (full version).

* Detailed stats.

Free Download: http://www.deprice.com/blueiris.htm

John Deprice owns and operates Deprice.Com. For the latest tools, gadgets and software, visit http://www.deprice.com/utilities.htm

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March 29th, 2010

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How Should You Protect Your Home Surveillance

March 26th, 2010


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Counter Surveillance, also called anti-surveillance, anti spyware or anti spy activity, is any form of technological measures that can be taken by interested malicious people to block surveillance cameras to their advantage and to void the purpose itself of home surveillance.

As such, Counter Surveillance actions need to be addressed explicitly, and whoever plans to implement a home surveillance system should be advised on its limits of effectiveness. Surveillance cameras need be protected from assault in order to safeguard investment and home.

It would be a pity to spend considerable time and money for building a well conceived home surveillance system… and have it turned useless by some easily implemented means.

The mere possibility of tricks being played against your system requires foreseeing the risks and acknowledging the weak points of unprotected surveillance cameras in order to take at least the most obvious provisions to assure meaningful and continued surveillance operation.

Users should be warned that surveillance systems may be the object of determined Counter Surveillance efforts to sabotage, spoil, shut off, ruin, break and destroy them, from the part of hostile people wishing to avoid the proofs of their malicious acts and their own identification.

If you plan your own home surveillance, you must know how fragile it may be, if not protected effectively against Counter Surveillance. You should make some efforts to explore the risks that your system may be subject to.

When you plan to install your home surveillance system, you should be concerned by possible vandal actions, in order to take proper precautions. Indeed whoever does not want to be observed and on record might be tempted to disable the system, if easily accessible. Therefore you should better make it inaccessible.

One should dedicate thought and ingenuity to pile up hindrances and obstacles, to make the task of Counter Surveillance difficult or impossible to achieve in a short time, to convince would be offenders to give-up any vicious attack without trying.

You should be informed on how you can disclose hidden cameras if you suspect that they may be operated against you without your knowledge. And you should also know that those observed by your surveillance with your hidden camera, may discover your plot if they want to.

In this page we alert our readers to look into the simple precautions that should be taken in any case to protect your home surveillance system. It is like making sure that your entrance door has a good lock and that you shut it when you go out.

You can confidently implement your home security plan if you do not neglect the important points relative to how accessible and defended is your hardware, to discourage any Counter Surveillance attack.

Elia Levi is a retired engineer. He built a website to assist with a step-by-step Guide to understand, design, select and set up, all by yourself the best and least expensive Surveillance System for your Home Security. Read more on the subject of this article at http://www.1st-diy-home-surveillance-guide.com/Counter-surveillance.html

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