SpyGearCo: Spy and Surveillance

First of all this will not work with all spy cams on the market, just a select few which are shown below.

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This product called the Mini Spy Camera 18-Hour Triple 9V Battery Clip will allow a few spy cameras discussed below to last up to 18 hours instead of the normal 6 hours or less.

How it works is plug a clip from the triple clip to the camera as shown below, then you simply plug each battery clip end into one of the female ends of the triple clip. Add 3 Duracell batteries and “WALA” you have 18 hours of power to spy on someone with your mini color wireless spy camera!

So that means you can capture all those covert mission for almost a day without needing external power! No other way of powering a spy camera for that length of time is available in todays mini spy camera surveillance market. The spy cameras below can now have 18 hours of power.

Miniature camera, have a security need in mind. If you need a miniature camera to perform some type of covert or hidden video surveillance, home surveillance, or as a nanny cam to monitor your child’s caregiver the incredibly small size shown below can be used anywhere you have a need to monitor activity undetected. These cameras are so small you can even hide them inside a clock!

Some of the favorite uses for these spy cams are:

• Nanny Camera
• Residential Surveillance
• Small Business Surveillance
• Automobile Security / Back-Up Camera
• R/C Enthusiast in Airplanes and Helicopters
• Motorcycle Helmet Camera
• Spy Porn Cams

As we said the 18 Hour Triple Clip will only work with the following spy cameras.

The one above which is the Color Mini Wireless Spy Camera with Receiver.

It will also work with the Upgraded Mini Color Wireless Spy Camera shown above.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 at 10:15 am and is filed under Hidden Cameras, Spy Cam, Surveillance for Business, Video Surveillance Systems. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

GPS is short for Global Positioning System. GPS tracking systems are satellite-based navigation systems that are driven by a series of 24 geo-synchronous satellites that continuously transmit their position.

This data is used in personal tracking, navigation and automatic vehicle location technologies through GPS systems. GPS tracking devices are especially useful for knowing where automobiles and other motor vehicles are at and where their going, or how to get there.

All GPS Trackers are similar but offer different features. We will discuss the best GPS Tracker Device that can be used to track an auto in real time. The WorldTracker GPRS is a very small GPS Auto Tracker that literally fits in the palm of your hand. But when used with the optional weather proof case this tracker can easily be hidden on a auto or any other vehicle to track it whereabouts in 15 second intervals.

The Worldtracker GPRS may be ordered with a sturdy ABS plastic box who’s main job is protecting the device from the elements like snow, rain, hail, nuclear war(just kidding). The box is completely watertight and will also float which is perfect for private detectives tracking an auto that may plunge into the river.

The inside is padded with foam to cushion the following pieces of equipment:

• The receiver itself, with the battery compartment removed,
• An 8 cell AA battery holder for a 12V DV output,
• A magic blue box with interesting electronics inside
• A wire from the blue box into the Worldtracker GPRS device’s battery connector

As you can guess from the pictures WorldTracker GPRS is expected to be stashed away somewhere in the vehicle that is to be tracked. You can either put it into a place where it is hidden but still has some form of sky view, or you can affix it to the exterior of the car.

This can be done either with the lanyard that you see on the left side, or using the magnets on the underside of the box.

Use caution when handling the box – these magnets are pretty strong and can easily destroy data on a hard disk of the laptop you happen to have sitting nearby.

When I was testing where to place the box on my car (a Nissan Murano) I made some interesting discoveries. First of all, magnets do not work on plastic. Amazing how much of my car looks like solid metal but in reality is – equally solid – plastic.

Next I tried to clip the box onto the underside of the car, somewhere on the frame. Lesson learned here is that magnets do not work too well on the anti-corrosion foam that Nissan have sprayed very generously all over the body.

So basically what you need to do is test this on a car that is similar to the one you want to track, and you need to have a game plan for the case when the box falls off. Either use the lanyard accordingly, or be ready to quickly pick up the box (or its remains).

Mobile Tracking

There is a great way to track the WorldTracker GPRS online but for now we will skip that since we are focusing on tracking mobile equipment like cars and trucks, etc.

Having the data available on a PC may be nice as shown below.

But in the real world it is more important to have access to the tracking data while you are actually following your target. Security Concepts have developed a number of different ways that allow tracking from a mobile device as shown below.

From the main page you enter your account ID, and then see the details of the last known position. You can select to show the maps through MapQuest or through the standard Microsoft map API but Pocket Internet Explorer offers Fullscreen mode now as shown below.

You can even see the same breadcrumbs, including the temporal coloring.

How the WorldTracker GPRS is Setup

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This entry was posted on Saturday, July 28th, 2007 at 12:16 am and is filed under GPS Tracking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Medium size apartment complexes and restaurants need dependable video surveillance camera systems that are easy to install and will work day in and day out and be immune to the sometimes harsh elements they are placed in..

Many systems today force you to do a lot of work to make them work.

Many system are mismatched and do not work well together and are no reliable.

But there are some 16 camera surveillance system that meet the grade. Here we present one well made, well matched system that is assemble and tested in the USA, not foreign countries like China or India.

This Professional 16 Camera Video Surveillance System for medium size businesses or homes allows you to install up to 16 cameras (12 wired and 4 wireless cameras) to digitally record all activity. This DVR has full networking capability and uses a GeoVision DVR card which allows you to view live video on the Internet. This mega video recording system is perfect for operations that need to keep an eye on a large number of locations. Great for large warehouses or homes, restaurants or apartment complexes. Here we talk about the individual pieces that make up this superior system.

This complete surveillance system includes the following plus a just-for-you discount:

(1) PC-based 16 channel DVR running Windows XP operating system.

This Monster surveillance security system allows you to install up to 16 cameras (can do 12 wired and 4 wireless cameras) to digitally record all activity. This DVR has full networking capability and uses a GeoVision DVR card which allows you to view live video on the Internet.

It includes Motion activation recording, scheduled recording, remote playback and recording, customized detection zones, alarm detection with snapshot and or video email alerts, point of sale control and alerts, password protected, multiple user accounts, stealth mode operation, MPEG 4 video compression for high resolution video, high speed CD burner and PDA remote access and monitoring.

(12) Day/Night Color Wired Bullet Cameras (BC-30WC)

This color bullet camera has a high quality digital CCD chip that automatically switches from color to black & white in low light conditions. To enhance low light visibility it has 12 built-in high infrared illuminators. Fully weatherproof.

(4) Day/Night Color Wireless Bullet Cameras (BC-30GC)

This color bullet camera has a high quality digital CCD chip that automatically switches from color to black & white in low light conditions. To enhance low light visibility it has 12 built-in high infrared illuminators. Fully weatherproof.

(12) 100 foot Video Cables (CA-100)

Power and video on one cable. Comes with extra RCA and BNC connections so it works with all 12 Volt wired video cameras. Eliminates the need to run separate power cable or to find power near the camera. Makes installation a snap.

(4) 2.4 GHz Video Receivers (TR-2.4)

Receive up to 4 channels of wireless video with a 2.4 GHz transmitter and receiver. Sleek design with built-in directional antenna and manual channel switcher. Includes RCA video outputs.

(1) 17 inch LCD Monitor (LCD-17)

Having a monitor with your surveillance system is necessary for viewing the video captured by the cameras and recorded by the video recorder.

Our high-quality LCD Video Monitors provide an ideal viewing screen. Just hook a monitor up to your DVR or VCR and see what your cameras see. Available in four affordable sizes: 7 inch, 12 inch, 17 inch and 20 inch. Monitor brands may vary.

The best part of this perfectly matched 16 video camera surveillance system is the cost. If you bought these items separately this system would cost you $8,103.00. But the complete system is only $5,617.00…a savings of $2,486.00.

In addition all the technical configuration has been figured out. The company even has a small utility that they include on the DVR that allows them to remotely configure the system, so you don’t have to do any networking!

Here’s proof that this 16 camera video surveillance system works for businesses.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 at 6:27 pm and is filed under Surveillance for Business, Surveillance News, Video Surveillance Systems. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Here are Some Sobering Child Abuse Statistics in the USA Alone!

• An estimated 906,000 children are victims of abuse & neglect every year. The rate of victimization is 12.3 children per 1,000 children
• Children ages 0-3 are the most likely to experience abuse. They are victimized at a rate of 16.4 per 1,000
• 1,500 children die every year from child abuse and neglect. That is just over 4 fatalities every day.
• 79% of the children killed are younger than 4.

The abuse is usually from a care giver like nanny or baby sitter for instance and can also be one or both parents which is big reason why you should consider buying and installing a hidden nanny cam or several of them in your house or apartment before it’s too late.

What is critical is the ability to record video surveillance and be able to quickly review video segments and determine that your caregivers are performing his or her jobs.

Hidden Camera Gadgets are also great for catching sneaky landlords or threatening ex-spouses that have a key to your house or apartment.

Here are 3 of the best Hidden Cameras that are used to help prove child abuse to your local authorities. Because these spy hidden cameras have both the DVR and the camera contained in the same unit, your nanny will never suspect that they are being recorded.

These hidden cameras are self contained camera & DVRs and can be used in many different application like catching Nursing Home Abuse and Nanny Cam abuse. These single non detectable hidden camera is needed to capture all covert video surveillance and used as evidence. Child Abuse cases are on the rise today and you need peace of mind that your children are safe, but in many cases they are not!

All stand alone hidden camera / DVD devices shown below are professional, high quality hidden cameras that are most often the ones used for catching child abuse evidence and any other covert operation that you might need them for!

Later in this article we will describe how to set these hidden cameras up and use them.

Air Purifier Hidden Camera

Completely functional small personal air purifier. Hidden camera views out front at a slightly upward angle. SD card slot hidden behind removable filter. Replacement filters are available at Wal-Mart stores.

Cube Clock Radio Hidden Camera

Completely functional cube style clock radio. Hidden camera views out front of radio at 92 degree wide angle.

Artificial Plant Hidden Camera

Hidden pinhole camera views out front. SD card slot hidden in plant basket.

How to set up your hidden spy cams to get the evidence you need.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 at 11:04 pm and is filed under Hidden Cameras, Spy Cam, Video Surveillance Systems. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

If you have a car, truck, boat, RV or any other lockable vehicle and you are trying to find your who is “messing” with your automobile or other vehicle, you need a spy camera to put in your vehicle to catch who is paying around or inside of it.

The following is a story how the Cyber Eye  was used.

When Jimmy discovered plans for a row of executive townhouses on his street, he wondered if his new neighbors would attract burglars to the neighborhood.

So Jimmy installed a security system that calls the police department during break-ins. Staring at the sensors and the controls, he wondered if it was enough.

That’s when he bought his CyberEye.

He mounted the CyberEye facing his front door and his bay window
and set it to capture an image every fifteen seconds.

Months later, Jimmy took his family to the movies. They drove right past the construction site, where a backhoe had severed a fiber optic cable. Jimmy didn’t know it then, but his entire neighborhood had lost their phone service!

Meanwhile, a plain white van parked in front of Jimmy’s house. Three men wearing hooded sweatshirts sauntered up the lawn. One produced a crow bar from his sleeve and smashed right through that beautiful bay window.

Before Jimmy’s neighbors heard the alarm bells, those felons had vanished. With no landlines, the alarm system could not contact ANYONE.

Giggles turned to gasps inside Jimmy’s station wagon when they pulled up to their home behind two police cars. Never losing his cool, Jimmy led the detectives to his television, it had been too heavy for the thieves to snatch’and activated the remote control  for his CyberEye.

Even with no lights on, the infrared lens captured everything: the broken window, the first thief climbing in and opening the front door for his companions… everything.

It even captured all three of them, taking off their hoods, staring DIRECTLY into that lens.

Not only did the cops know exactly who they were dealing with, but the CyberEye put a time stamp on each frame. Now the investigators knew exactly WHEN the crooks made off with Jimmy’s things.

That date stamp came in handy the next day, when Jimmy’s insurance adjuster looked at the tape Jimmy made by connecting the CyberEye to a VCR. The agent always hated tracking down receipts and evidence for homeowners’ insurance cases. This time,
he could see who was aking what items and when.

Jimmy got even more good news that week. One of the ringleader’s so-called friends saw his picture on the evening news. That ‘friend’ wanted the small reward from the neighborhood watch association, and he told police where to find the burglars.

Even the fanciest lawyer couldn’t talk his way around that powerful image of the crooks, with their hands on Jimmy’s things, stamped with a time and a date for everyone to see.

Jimmy’s insurance company fixed the window and replaced all of the stolen goods. And Jimmy’s neighbors ask him constantly about his CyberEye. He tells them every time how it was the best purchase he ever made.

Here are some common tips to help prevent vandalism of your vehicle.

This entry was posted on Friday, July 20th, 2007 at 6:11 pm and is filed under Apartment & Campus Security, Spy Cam. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

If you own the LukWerk Indoor, Outdoor, Spy Camera or Hidden Cameras and own version 1.x and want to upgrade to version 2.0 this detailed article will tell you how to do it screen by screen. To begin with version 2.0 of the WiLife Command Center contains many enhancements that many ordinary surveillance cameras not only don’t have but would charge you an arm-and-a-leg for!

In addition for a mear $79.95 per year you can get even more advanced features that are part of the WiLife Platinum package which gets enabled when you subscribe to Platinum. We will show you how to do this too and get things like Pan-Tilt-Zoom and much more. Here is comparison of the features in the Platinum version which is well worth the money.

Feature                            WiLife Platinum        WiLife
Free Remote Viewing                   X                        X
Easy Search and Playback           X                        X
Email and Cell Phone Alerts         X                        X
Automatic Disk Management        X                        X
High-Quality Color Video              X                        X
Windows Vista Compatible          X                        X
Scheduled Alerts                          X
No Show Alerts                            X
Desktop Notifications                   X
Digital Pan, Tilt, Zoom                  X
Password System Lock                X
Online Video Storage                   X
Connection Monitoring                 X
Remote Search and Playback       X
Online Video Sharing                    X

Here is a short description of the features inside the Platinum software.

- Connection Monitoring allows you to remotely supervise your system by receiving an email or cell phone message if your Command Center , PC, or cameras go offline. Now you can take action fast.

- Online Video Sharing allow you to share select video clips with friends, family, employees and even local law enforcement. Simply upload the segment and list the email addresses for nearly instant distribution.

- Remote Search and Playback allows you to go beyond live Internet viewing. Access your recorded video at anytime, anywhere. Use easy search tools to locate and view video by date, time, and site – with up to the minute availability.

- Online Video Storage keeps your important video safe. Store protected video clips securely in your online account where you have the perfect tools to review, organize, and share.

- Digital Pan-Tilt-Zoom allows you to scan and zoom within the current viewing area of your camera. Now you can focus in on the door, cash register, or other home and business targets from your WiLife Command Center.

- Remote Camera Management allows you to control your cameras through WiLife Online where you can remotely adjust options such as resolution, motion sensitivity, and even arm/disarm alerts.

- Connection Monitoring allows you to remotely supervise your system by receiving an email or cell phone message if your Command Center , PC, or cameras go offline. Now you can take action fast.

- No Show Alerts allows you to intelligently monitor an area where you expect motion. If there is no motion, the system alerts you. Now you can be notified immediately whether the kids come home from school on time.

- Password System Lock keeps the snooping eyes and tampering fingers of employees or kids off the entire Command Center or individual features while you are away. Lock access using your private system password.

- Desktop Notifications lets WiLife notify you when there is motion on your cameras with a popup window on your PC. Notifications display a thumbnail image of the event and sound an alert tone of your choice.

- Scheduled Alerts uses a simple calendar to schedule times to turn email and cell motion alerts on or off. For example, arm your system Monday through Friday at 10:00 PM and disarm at 6:00 AM.

Now let’s show you how to download version 2.0 and upgrade to the fantastic Platinum features.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 at 10:12 pm and is filed under Home Security, Surveillance for Business, Surveillance News, Video Surveillance Systems. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Nursing home abuse is rampant in today’s society. Elderly patients and the mentally ill do not have a chance in most all of our world wide nursing homes.

Many facilities fail to provide the services necessary for patients to avoid physical harm, mental anguish or mental illness.

Official investigate nearly 4,500 nursing home abuse cases each year and the count keeps going up. The main reason is poor or no staff training or staff that has not been checked for having criminal backgrounds.

The biggest case found for nursing home abuse to date is an East Peoria nursing home that was fine $100,000 on Friday, 7-13-2007 for neglect and faulty care of mentally ill and elderly patients. As a result, three patients and two workers were arrested.

Police raided the East Peoria Gardens Healthcare Center in April and found evidence that mentally ill patients were out of control and elderly patients tormented.

In this investigation officials found numerous tell tale signs that elderly and mentally ill residents were falling and fatally injured, improper diagnosis, mentally ill patients choking to death on food. Numerous patients falling and later dieing from complications without and precautions put in place. In addition to nursing home patient neglect seven patients were admitted with criminal records after failing to do background checks.

This is the second time the East Peoria Gardens Healthcare Center has faced stiff fines and sanctions. This abuse has been allowed to go on for months unchecked. Personal injury attorneys will be in court for months due to this.

But this not an isolated nursing home abuse case. This is going on all over the country as our population ages and more and more people are being put into nursing homes as the baby boom population advances in age, many more cases of nursing home abuse and neglect will become rampant.

What’s even worse is elderly and mentally ill patients in these nursing homes can’t fight back or defend themselves in any way, but the children or friends of the victims can begin taking a proactive stance on making sure there loved ones are not being abused and to bring nursing home facilities to justice if they are abusing nursing home residents.

There are 2 surefire ways children or friends can help protect these innocent and helpless nursing home victims. The way is to use hidden cameras. Hidden cameras can be easily planted in the room without the facility noticing it. Hidden cameras come installed in many different everyday objects. Hidden Cameras required a DVD recorder to record all suspicious activity but the following hidden camera devices have the camera and DVD recorder all built it. Simply purchase one, insert a tiny SD memory card and arm it so that it records. Each day or every other day go into the room, make sure no one is watching by closing the door and remove the tiny SD card, take it home and insert it into a reader for your computer and watch to see signs of physical or mental abuse.

All of the following Self Contained Hidden Camera/DVRs come in 3 different types, color, black & white and low light versions. I would choose the B&W Super Low Light .0003 Lux version as you can see what abuse is going on day or night.

These Hidden Camera gadgets are totally covert and are “armed” by simply pressing the power button on the included IR remote control. No “tell-tale” extra lights or switches insure a totally covert system.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, July 15th, 2007 at 9:41 pm and is filed under Hidden Cameras, Spy Cam, Video Surveillance Systems. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Church officials and parishioners alike should take a stand and have video surveillance systems in their churches immediately.

In the beautiful town of Naperville(2′nd Best Place to Live accoring to Money Magazine), the home of GLC Enterprises, who sell of high quality video surveillance products, several churches and subdivisions have been struck by vandals.

Holy Catholic Community Parish was visited by vandals and several phrases of sacrilegious nature where spray painted on windows and doors. Naperville police began to receive reports of obscenity, gang signs.

Also, neighboring town subdivision signs were defaced. Saddle Creek subdivision sign entrance was changed to “Satan’s Creek”.

Police confirmed that similar acts of vandalism occurred at the Zion Lutheran Church directly adjacent to the parish in an unincorporated area of Will County.

Naperville police have no leads in the case which means these vandals will continue the spread their messages of hate and blasphemy.

Churches must install video surveillance systems that will allow them to find out how who these perpetrators are and have them arrested before they do any more damage.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, July 12th, 2007 at 9:27 pm and is filed under Hidden Cameras, Surveillance for Business, Video Surveillance Systems. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Having children is hard these days but when your child is missing the worst fears come to mind. These days our society breeds killers and psychopaths. No child is safe.

Many people still remember John Walsh’s who hosts America Most Wanted show son Adam who was abducted and murdered way back in 1981.

When you enter any major department store you see pictures of missing children who were most likely abducted and murdered or sold into slavery.

Yes, thanks to America’s Most Wanted police are catching criminals but to many people are getting away with it and are not caught. Parents must be pro-active about making sure their children have a way to tell us when they have been taken against their free will. Sex offenders are the major culprits for child abductions and murders.

There are too many men and woman out there just looking for the chance to abduct your child. You and I must fight back. But How?

As parents we must make sure that if a stranger approaches them to run and don’t stop to talk to them. Most likely they are planing to abduct them. Click Here to read some valuable tips on who you and your children should know about preventing them from being abducted.

Parents should also buy a GPS Emergency Tracker Communicator as shown on the left and teach their child how to use it. Keep it charged and have 2 preset emergency number programmed so that when your child is abducted teach them to press it. The tracker will follow the vehicles location and police can capture them quickly before any other harm comes to your child.

At half the size of a deck of playing cards and only 3.5′ high and 1/8 inch wide, the unit can be easily concealed or attached to a loved one. Have it securely concealed on your child and fully charged before letting him or her play.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, July 8th, 2007 at 11:29 pm and is filed under GPS Tracking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

PTZ enabled security cameras refers to cameras that can Pan, Tilt and Zoom. These type of cameras have been around for years now. Gone are the days of stationary black and white cameras unable to follow the action. Today’s PTZ solutions can pan, tilt and zoom in on an incident or take in an entire area manually, randomly or automatically.

A security or web camera with pan, tilt, and zoom is the ultimate “eye” for video surveillance and provides the ultimate in viewing area control. Businesses like pan tilt zoom cameras because they are the best surveillance tools for capturing theft or criminal behavior. For home use, surveillance camera owners can place the camera in a room and be able to track their caregivers where ever they roam to to insure their loved ones are being properly cared for and not abused. Not to mention all the “kinky” things you can do with these neat hidden camera PTZ features.

In addition, there are many other uses with security cameras that have PTZ capabilities for use in businesses, homes, office buildings and many other areas. Typical Pan/Tilt/Zoom (PTZ) Surveillance Video Cameras are small and inconspicuous can capture high-quality, full-motion video that can be transmitted through the Internet or over an Internet Protocol (IP) network connection. Schools even use PTZ cameras for everything from recording classroom lectures for students to play back later or for viewing in overflow classes, to documenting the practice trials of mock court. The uses for these hidden cameras with this one feature is limited only by the imagination.

While there are many types of surveillance cameras in the market that have the ability to Pan, Tilt and Zoom, none exist that are in embedded into hidden camera objects like clocks, air purifiers and radios until now.

These group of IP Secure Hidden Cameras simply plug into the wall and transmit secure video through the buildings electrical wiring but they do not by default have the ability to Pan, Tilt or Zoom.

These Hidden Cameras come shipped with 1.x version software but can be upgraded to v.2.0 for free and for $79.95/yr. the hidden camera can have PTZ capabilities along with many other advanced surveillance options that are known as the WiLife Platinum Upgrade.

With Digital PTZ, you can narrow in on specific areas of your WiLife cameras viewing area. For example, zoom in on the cash register and get a close up view. The Digital Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) section increases your monitoring capability and scope by allowing you to select a camera from the WiLife Command Center Live View and digitally reposition the camera so that it pans left or right, tilts up or down, or zooms in on the scene displaying.

Digital PTZ works within the viewing area of the lens used in the camera. For example, a 120 degree angle lens has the panning and tilting range of 120 degrees; for an 80 degrees lens, an 80 degree panning radius, etc.

This also means that if you are using the zoom option, you cannot zoom out past the image range of the lens. A completely zoomed out image for a 120 degree lens would show the full 120 degree image, with no options to zoom out any further. When you zoom in, you see a subsection of the full image.

From this viewpoint, you can pan and tilt to the edges of the full image represented by the lens in the camera. The camera can zoom in or out of a picture up to 2x in both VGA and QVGA mode.

Note: In order to use digital pan-tilt-zoom, each camera that participates must be updated with the latest firmware. If a camera is not updated with the latest firmware, the WiLife Command Center will inform you via a warning message when you attempt to use the feature. Simply click OK to update the camera.

Upon updating the firmware, your updated cameras will be automatically rediscovered. The Pan, Tilt, Zoom section is located on the Live View screen. It includes numbered icons that represent each camera; a replica of the streaming video from the camera selected; up and down tilt buttons; left and right pan buttons; and increase/decrease zoom buttons.

Please be aware that the PTZ for your hidden camera is only controllable through your PC’s WiLife Command Center. However, you can gain access to your PC remotely through XP Pro’s built-in terminal services. This can be done by logging into your PC from Windows XP Pro “Remote Desktop Configuration”. Click Here for information on how to set up a remote connection to your WiLife Command Center PC from another remote PC.

The following graphic displays the components of the Digital PTZ section and applicable notes regarding how to use them to:

• Easily switch cameras
• Apply and reuse frequently used settings
• Easily switch between a camera’s custom PTZ settings
• Zoom, pan, or tilt a camera’s view with a simple click

So how do you get a Hidden Camera with these Pan, Tilt and Zoom Features?

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This entry was posted on Thursday, July 5th, 2007 at 9:07 pm and is filed under Apartment & Campus Security, Hidden Cameras, Home Security, Surveillance for Business, Surveillance News, Video Surveillance Systems. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.