A webcam software that detects movement, sounds alarm, captures snapshots, records video, and sends captured images by email
Web cameras
are good for more than just making internet conversations
more realistic. They can furthermore be
an enormously functional tool
for use in house or firm protection.
Software
is now available that can detect movement and use
it as a trigger for various procedures.
The way that
it works is to study the picture sent by a camera that is either attached by USB
or via a video capture card for movement. After it picks up
that motion, it can afterward acquire any number of events,
including triggering an siren.
A more popular application, though, is to either
send live images of what is happening in the picture that is covered by the webcam
or to even webcast by live broadcasting exactly what is
happening with both sound and image. If installed covertly,
this application could even be used for covert surveillance.
Given the
large quantity of systems that either have a web camera attached
or can support one, this is an excellent way to inexpensively and easily guard
the region across that pc
from invasion or theft.
I'm using camera application. I can broadcast Ip video to watch my home from anywhere.
With my new
webcamera application, I can run a streaming broadcast
of my site viewable from the Internet. This opens up a number
of opportunities, the surface of which has not even been scratched in today's world. I can use
this webcast for surveillance purposes, allowing me to watch what's going on in my home
at any time from a remote watching pc.
As long as I have the webcam
running and a remote computer with Online access, I can watch the home.
With the software and the camera, I can change the settings to capture picture,
sense activity (if I don't want to keep the camera running at all times),
or use a mixture of a online feed and recorded video to realize a security
system that takes full benefit of novel technology.
With a capture card,
I can simply transmit related video and screenshots to use on
any pc.
With delicate files on my station
and useful things in my home,
it only makes sense to have a protection setup that I can supervise whenever I feel that my privacy
is being compromised. If I owned a small firm or lived with roommates, I couldn't imagine
living without it.
Streaming live video and sound from capture device through web camera computer software
Security software
If you find yourself with a need to record security video with a camera over an area,
camera
server application
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 available off-site, can be broadcast using the server's streaming
feature to a site.
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 tv signal.
Using a setup like this, it is possible to provide a measure of surveillance for an area while
the economics of the situation do not justify hiring a security business or setting up a professional monitoring system.
This
do-it-yourself approach
can save money while not compromising on security.