Unorthodox uses: Home surveillance on-the-move with the Tilt2
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I’ve previously written about unusual uses of the Tilt2. Yet another use of it would be to make use of the Smartphone as an ad-hoc viewer for some home surveillance. To do that, you must usually setup a suitable web-camera or IP-based camera at the venue that you want to survey of course.
In the past though, viewing videos or screen captures of what has happened would have entailed the need either wait until you are home (or to the venue that is under surveillance), or to fire up your laptop, wait for it to boot, login, wait for applications to load fully, connect to the Internet, wait for connection to be established and launch your browser, wait for browser to load… you get the idea.
What I really love about a smartphone like the HTC Tilt2 is the fact that you use it to quickly get started without much “waiting” for the same result. Viewing can be done via the Web browser (Depending on your IP camera), or via third party applications such as NetCam2 MP, easily purchased via the Marketplace.
Of course, the Logitech Web camera in the picture above can only be positioned to show a single location. Wireless IP cameras capable of PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) are cheaper than you think however, with many of them capable of pan and tilt motions.
So there you have it, surveillance on the move!
Paul Mah is an independent tech writer who covers a range of topics ranging from enterprise hardware to consumer gadgets. You can find his personal blog at www.thetechblogger.comor follow him on Twitter @paulmah.
July 29, 6:52 pm