Broadcasting live video and sound from capture card
through webcamera server application
Surveillance software
If you find yourself with a need to record surveillance video with a webcamera over an area,
webcam
computer software
may be the right choice for you. Using this application, it is possible to set up a
camera to detect movement 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 webcast using the server's broadcasting
function to a web site.
Depending on the quality of the camera and the viewer's video card, the picture that is recorded may be as clear as a high-definition tv signal.
Using a setup 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.
New professional security software works with
any camera, Internet cameras, and major capture cards.
Surveillance software
has become so complicated that the normal
businessman who has been busy minding his office instead of pouring over electronics and internet
know-how articles can be easily overwhelmed when it comes time to install or renew his surveillance system.
Fortunately, there is new professional security application that simplifies much of the decision making.
You don't necessarily have to get rid of a working analog CCTV system in order to update to a streaming
video that can be monitored from any ip connected pc or 3G phone. Video capture cards can digitally convert the
images for broadcast. Until recently, there had been no real attempts to standardize the new Internet
cameras; every make and manufacturer functioned a little differently. And when you connect web cameras into the
merge, using one application to control them all was cumbersome.
Professional security software
is now accessible that will work for any camera
or Internet webcam and for most capture cards as well. You can monitor anything your activity
detectors are picking up at your home or company while you can be half a globe away.
The application itself may not be easy, but it can make life simpler for you.
Web camera software senses motion, triggers
siren, captures snapshots, records video, and sends captured images by e-mail
Webcams
are usefull for more than just making ip conversations
more practical. They can furthermore be
an awfully practical instrument
for exploit in residence or commercial security.
Software
is now available that can identify motion and use
it as a trigger for various actions.
The way that
it works is to analyze the picture sent by a webcam that is either attached using USB
or through a video capture device for movement. Once it picks up
that movement, it can afterward acquire any number of events,
including triggering an alarm.
An other popular application, though, is to either
send live images of what is happening in the field that is covered by the camera
or to even webcast through live streaming exactly what is
happening with both audio and picture. If installed secretly,
this software could even be used for covert surveillance.
Given the
large amount of systems that either have a webcam attached
or can support one, this is an excellent way to inexpensively and easily protect
the area across that workstation
from invasion or robbery.
