Today due to the technology we have in our grasp all the means to control our environment from anywhere. For this reason we will recommend you 5 free tools more advantages for video surveillance in any environment you need.
Ten years ago, making a video surveillance system in a parking was expensive and technically complicated situation. The cost of IP cameras and wireless software procurement and especially the configuration of the entire system were very high. And all this for the owner or manager can manipulate the camera from the computer at your office usually ended up hiring a company that performs this service.
Today we live in a panoptic on and this is because the costs of chambers, applications and devices will access where images have been reduced considerably, its quality has increased and its technical installation is really simple. This combo makes anyone with minimal knowledge can build your own surveillance system.
- IP Camera Viewer
Let’s start with a desktop application with which you can connect USB or IP cameras, so you can build your own surveillance system of the place you want to control.
The application supports more than 1800 models of cameras (Axis, Canon, D-Link, Foscam, Panasonic, Mobotix, Pixord, Sony, Toshiba and Vivotek etc.). With IP Camera Viewer you can connect up to 4 cameras, control and display of simultaneous mode.
The application is very easy to set up and you can control the movement of remote cameras (pan, tilt and zoom), as well as the properties of the image.
IP Camera Viewer is a free application available for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8.
- Presence
It is an application that turns your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch old into a webcam with advanced options. Configuring Presence is simple; if you have an iOS device that does not use it, you download the application on your phone and the device will transform abandoned in a wireless camera to monitor what you want from anywhere, with another mobile iOS.
You can configure the tool so that I sent alerts or begin recording when it detects movement. Presence images will send alerts via email.
Presence is a security system simple, free and available for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (third generation), iPod touch (fourth generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
- Eye line
It is an application of video surveillance for Windows, the tool can capture and store video from multiple cameras simultaneously (the number of video channels is limited by the capacity of the computer).
Some of the main features of the tool are that it works with USB cameras and IP network cameras, has motion detection alerts via SMS or email, save video images to a network folder and back up recordings via FTP.
Eye line is a powerful tool with nearly all the options you can find in commercial applications, with which you can control what you need.
Eye line is a free application (has a commercial version) is available for Windows XP, Vista and 7.
- Vitamin D
Vitamin D in its free version is a simple application that only lets you connect a camera to a resolution of QVGA (320 × 240). Instead the commercial editions can benefit from FTP storage and manage multiple cameras, and more.
But you wonder why we recommend this application; Well, if you just need to connect a single camera and monitor a sector, Vitamin D is a simple and very useful tool because it is responsible for discovering changes in that sector (everything that happens in front of the lens) with a single precision (hypersensitive motor).
Vitamin D is a free application for Windows XP (SP 2), Vista, 7 and 8 and Mac OS X. Of course, you must have enough disk space.
- GEOM
We will end with Xeoma a multiplatform application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Android, free of charge for all platforms.
One of the main features of Xeoma is working in cycle mode (deleted old recordings).
With Xeoma you can determine a perimeter of a solar or control your office or home easily. You can customize the beginning and end of the recording, creating a surveillance network through a web server, create users into from anywhere in the world, watch video and listen to the sound so online, protect cameras with a password.
With these tools you can choose which one is the best to control what they want and are converted in minutes Jeremy Bentham (creator of the panoptic on in).