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Today, Network Webcams announces the launch of SecurityStation, its own Alerts & Recording Platform (ARP). Designed with the user in mind, SecurityStation makes viewing and recording from IP cameras as easy as using a website.

The new service can be accessed using all common browsers and does away with the need for recording devices or software of any kind. All a user need is a camera and an Internet connection, SecurityStation does the rest.

Secure, offsite remote servers managed by Network Webcams store the data captured from users’ cameras. Via www.MySecurityStation.com users have instant access to their event recordings, live camera feeds and system control settings.

Frank Crouwel, Managing Director at Network Webcams said, “We expect that SecurityStation will become a great success and a market leader amongst other Alerts & Recording Platforms (ARPs). The fact that the service is fully web-based and is accessible from anywhere on demand makes it easy to use for anybody, and this makes it such a powerful product. It will open up the use of IP video to a much wider market.”

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It’s been a long time coming but ONVIF, the IP Video standards-setting collaboration between Axis, Bosch and Sony, is finally running and available to join. We’ll be following and, hopefully, contributing to the project and we fully support the standardisation of network video.

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We receive questions about IP cameras and lighting on a daily basis. We thought that this post may help many of you who are specifying lighting for use with IP cameras and are looking for guidance. This is a concise guide dealing with the basics only.

No light, no picture

The first thing to remember is that no camera will work in the dark. For a camera to provide a picture some form of light will be required. This can be either natural sun light or artificial light. Artificial light will be a requirement when the camera is to be operated indoors or at night.

Artificial light

We separate between three forms of artificial light:

• Standard interior lighting and external (flood) lighting
• White light
• Infra-red light

When designing a camera system that requires artificial light, the following advantages and disadvantages should be kept in mind:

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We took delivery of an ACTi CAM5230HP network camera for testing. The ACTi CAM5230HP is a static MPEG-4 real-time streaming day/night camera supporting a host of features, so let’s take a closer look at them: Read more

So you’re looking for an IP camera, but you want make sure that you can view it through your spanking new Core 2 Duo 13″ MacBook.

Thankfully, your options are many. Read more