You can try x10, but I am not a big fan of their cameras.
Fry’s Electronics has a good selection of consumer closed circuit TV cameras and surveillance digital video recorders…
Basically, though, the cameras are just dumb cameras – they have no "intelligence". But when you connect them to something with some intelligence to detect motion – like a surveillance DVR or an application running on a computer – then the detected motion actually can do something.
I would post the links, but I’d probably get my profile suspended, so I won’t… but there are a few ways to connect a CCTV camera and a computer.
One way has you using IP based CCTV cameras. They have some chips in them with an embeded web server and it serves video. They come in wire or wireless versions. "Wireless" is actually inacurate because they still have a wire – for power. The wireless part is that you need to have a wireless router and the IP camera is just another node associated with the wireless LAN at your house. Some computer based surveillance recording software has a menu selection to allow you to set the "motion detection area". This can trigger an alarm (whether a noise or a light) or an email to be sent – or cause the recording to go from 1 frame every 4 seconds to real-time.
Another way has you connecting non-IP based cameras to a multi-channel DVR – and the DVR has an IP address assigned to it. There are wired and wireless versions – though I prefer using the wired versions. In this case, the camera (or wireless base station) connects to a DVR made for CCTV surveillance. Mine is a 4-channel so I can use at least 4 cameras. You give the DVR an IP address and connect it to the LAN (using an ethernet cable, just like the ones you might use for your home wire computers) so the DVR becomes another node on the LAN. To see what the DVR is getting from the cameras, you launch a browser and enter the IP address you assigned the DVR as the URL in the browser. The DVR also has a menu selection to allow you to set the "motion detection area". This can trigger an alarm (whether a noise or a light) or whatever you want to set up or cause the DVR recording to go from 1 frame every 4 seconds to real-time.
Whether the computer-based or DVR based system, it is not the camera that has any intelligence. It is the software in teh computer or the DVR that provides the motion detection feature capability.
Hey, You can obtain a pci card for your PC from the manufacturer. It will give you a RCA plug on the back of your computer and software to control the video. There is also a box made by dazzle it will take snap shots and video but the software is not made for security.
You can get some devices to convert the analog video signal to digital like this one http://www.spyville.com/video-recorder-usb.html it will give you the way to plug a regular camera into a USB port. The software uses your hard drive to record. It also has motion activation. The motion is based on the image provided to the device from the camera. When the image changes the recorder starts and when the image stops changing the recording stops.
It depends what you need…
You can try x10, but I am not a big fan of their cameras.
Fry’s Electronics has a good selection of consumer closed circuit TV cameras and surveillance digital video recorders…
Basically, though, the cameras are just dumb cameras – they have no "intelligence". But when you connect them to something with some intelligence to detect motion – like a surveillance DVR or an application running on a computer – then the detected motion actually can do something.
I would post the links, but I’d probably get my profile suspended, so I won’t… but there are a few ways to connect a CCTV camera and a computer.
One way has you using IP based CCTV cameras. They have some chips in them with an embeded web server and it serves video. They come in wire or wireless versions. "Wireless" is actually inacurate because they still have a wire – for power. The wireless part is that you need to have a wireless router and the IP camera is just another node associated with the wireless LAN at your house. Some computer based surveillance recording software has a menu selection to allow you to set the "motion detection area". This can trigger an alarm (whether a noise or a light) or an email to be sent – or cause the recording to go from 1 frame every 4 seconds to real-time.
Another way has you connecting non-IP based cameras to a multi-channel DVR – and the DVR has an IP address assigned to it. There are wired and wireless versions – though I prefer using the wired versions. In this case, the camera (or wireless base station) connects to a DVR made for CCTV surveillance. Mine is a 4-channel so I can use at least 4 cameras. You give the DVR an IP address and connect it to the LAN (using an ethernet cable, just like the ones you might use for your home wire computers) so the DVR becomes another node on the LAN. To see what the DVR is getting from the cameras, you launch a browser and enter the IP address you assigned the DVR as the URL in the browser. The DVR also has a menu selection to allow you to set the "motion detection area". This can trigger an alarm (whether a noise or a light) or whatever you want to set up or cause the DVR recording to go from 1 frame every 4 seconds to real-time.
Whether the computer-based or DVR based system, it is not the camera that has any intelligence. It is the software in teh computer or the DVR that provides the motion detection feature capability.
Hey, You can obtain a pci card for your PC from the manufacturer. It will give you a RCA plug on the back of your computer and software to control the video. There is also a box made by dazzle it will take snap shots and video but the software is not made for security.
You can get some devices to convert the analog video signal to digital like this one http://www.spyville.com/video-recorder-usb.html it will give you the way to plug a regular camera into a USB port. The software uses your hard drive to record. It also has motion activation. The motion is based on the image provided to the device from the camera. When the image changes the recorder starts and when the image stops changing the recording stops.