SpyGearCo: Spy and Surveillance

This article explains the many features of the World’s Most Complete Mini CCD Color Wireless Pinhole Spy Camera w/Receiver. The power of this camera and supplied software used to cost many thousands of dollars but now it truly possible to have an advanced mini spy camera with features that rival the most expensive surveillance system for a mer fraction of the price.

The transmitter that include (at no extra cost) and a receiver that also can connect via USB to your computer and offer MOTIION ACTIVATION recordings, scheduled recordings and real time Internet viewing. IT ALSO WILL WORK AS A STANDARD RCA TYPE RECEIVER YOU CAN USE WITH VCR. Other neat features it has digital pan and zoom over Internet view. See more features below.

The System Requirements for this powerful surveillance system are low so this makes a great video surveillance system for nearly everyone looking to watch their children, cheating spouse, employees or really for any video surveillance covert operation.

• Microsoft Windows 98, Me NT 4.01, 2000, XP or later versions
• Microsoft DirectX (no version requirement, but the latest version is recommended.)
• 500 MHz CPU
• 128 MB RAM
• At least 20MB disk space for software installation
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher version (to conduct remote monitoring in the form of webpage)
• Support WAP mobile phone (to conduct remote monitoring with mobile phone)

First lets look at the hardware. The spy cam is a small pinhole camera that can be hidden or mounted in the wall or ceiling. With the pinhole camera, so no one will realize they are being secretly watched. The receiver is about size of a small thin deck of cards. Both camera and receiver are powered by a 12v AC adaptor but the camera can run on an optional 12v rechargeable battery pack with charger.

The  Mini CCD Color Wireless Pinhole Spy Camera w/Receiver comes with 2 software programs that can be used for different things.

1.) SoHo Surveillance Software.

This application is for local surveillance for up to 4 spy cameras. The window is divided into 4 section for view 4 cameras at the same time. This program gives you a real time monitor and allows you to take photos or videos but also supports channel switch cycling and time cycling for switching cameras views between 1 second and 33 minutes.

Soho Surveillance’s default mode is normal mode which is shown in the picture below. Once cameras, receiving devices and drivers are installed successfully, the live videos will be shown in the camera areas.

A: Title bar B: Video areas C: Tool panel D: Status panel E: Logo

2. Camguard Security System Software

CamGuard is a suit of advanced guard against theft and alert system. It utilizes video frequency capture-facility, such as PC camera, and adopts advanced picture-discern technique to monitor the locale, as soon as it detect any abnormity, a loud alert will be given out to scare away the aggressor, picture or video will be taken to memorize what happened contemporarily and inform the host by many kinds of methods (Email, Phone).

Camguard has an enormous amount of functions available for any conceivable security need that used to cost thousands of dollars. Here is the rundown of features.

Features
1. Supports any video capture device such VFW, WDM.
2. Supports video capture device plug-and-play.
3. Motion Detection.
4. Adjustable motion detection by zone.
5. Adjustable sensitivity.
6. Provides customizable Alerts like Video Recording, Photo Snaps, Sound Alarms, E-mail Notifications and phone.
7. Schedule Monitoring sessions.
8. Record video/audio with all time, a programmed schedule and motion Detection.
9. Automatic Space Management while recording. Delete old records automatically on disk full.
10. Support On Screen Display. Displays date and time on video.
11. Supports history records manager, Supports searching by date.
12. Accessorial tool for recording video.
13. Accessorial tool for capturing the picture.
14. Supports remote video/audio surveillance by WEB BROWSER and Remote View Client.
15. Supports remote surveillance by Mobile telephone (WAP).
16. Supports multi network modes, include LAN and NAT.
17. Supports running background stealthy.
18. Supports automatic running on system starting, automatic entering working status and automatic connecting to the network (such as ADSL).
19.Change Skin.

Most users will be interested in Remote access so they can watch their spy camera over the Internet or on their Internet enabled cell phone or the new Apple iPhone.

Remote access can be conducted with the program’s “Remote Monitoring”, as well as “Mobile Phone Remote Monitoring”, or in the form of webpage. The following is about how to conduct remote monitoring in the form of webpage. When installed the Camguard Security System Software will actually test you computer and find the best way to access it through a remote PC and give you 2 URL’s. One for remote web page access and one for use on a remote WAP enabled Internet Phone. For example, if the account for remote service is “SpyGearCo”, then the address of the webpage will be http://SpyGearCo.icuy.com:8. Input a website and the interface on the left will appear in Internet Explorer.

Remarkably the new Apple iPhone can be used to monitor your spy camera surveillance also. Just enter the URL on your iPhone. You even get a choice of size of view screen! Now your iPhone can be used for any covert video surveillance mission especially for catching that cheating spouse!

For example, if the remote service account is “SpyGearCo”, then the address accessed by mobile phone will be http://SpyGearCo.wap.icuy.com:8. Simply input the website address on the mobile phone (Different types of mobile phone will have different styles) will appear after login. This is the only Mini CCD Color Wireless Pinhole Spy Camera w/Receiver package on the market today that works remotely using the Apple iPhone.

Installation:

Installing the software and accessing the surveillance video feed remotely is a breeze. Here we will describe the steps for installing the device.

1) Put the Mini CD software CD into the CD-ROM

2) Plug the power adaptor to the camera and the receiver and both adaptors into an AC outlet. Then turn the power on the receiver.

3) Connect the receiver and computer with the supplied USB cable to any available USB port.

4) Wait for the windows “New Hardware Detector” wizard to open.

5) Once the wizard open up, click on…

• “Yes, this time only”
• “Install from a specified location”
• Search removable media
• Continue Anyway
• Finish

Then install the 2 software packages described above. All help and use of the many surveillance functions are explained in detail in .PDF and help docs.

In conclusion, this is the best and most powerful mini spy camera package that is available on the market today!

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