Thursday, May 5, 2011

Home Surveillance for Cheap!

I've been looking at home wireless network camera for awhile now. The ability to put a camera on your wireless network and watch your front door or your dogs remotely is very cool and fun! The only catch is that this setup is not easy for most people to setup. Traditionally this requires setting a dynamic dns service, special home wireless router firewall rules, and a Active-X or Jave supported PC broswer. But technology has gotten a lot better as technology gets cheaper, faster, smaller, portable, and more secure. So we just bought a brand new D-Link home wireless camera , model number DCS-932L, and this thing sure is sweet! This new line was just unveiled at the recent 2011 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and is making waves because of the extremely easy setup and the all important iPhone integration. In fact, in my most recent searches this was my number one requirement that I could view the wireless camera remotely from iPhone, iPad, or droid device. The camera is a cinch to setup, no dynamic dns or firewall rules. Somehow D-Link has a server that proxies connections. Also the camera has night vision (infrared). The quaility is really good, up to 30 fps and 640x320 resolution. The camera has high security, a microphone, ability to record to a home NAS, and email notifications. Im very excited to have really good convenient home surveillance for Cheap!