Wireless Webcam For Home Surveillance

[quadricorrelator]

I am setting up a home surveillance system using my PC. I want to use wireless webcams that will use a USB connection. Does this exist? What is the cost? Would I be able to find it at Pantip Plaza?

Thanks,

-q

[Tywais]

Not sure why you are saying wireless then USB (which is a wired connection). You can look here for full Internet ready webcams.

http://www.shop4thai.com/en/category/?cat=138

[quadricorrelator]

Not sure why you are saying wireless then USB (which is a wired connection). You can look here for full Internet ready webcams.

http://www.shop4thai.com/en/category/?cat=138

Thank you for your help.

Yes, I apologize for the confusion. I was hoping to find a webcam that would have two parts: one part with a wireless transceiver that would plug into the USB port, and one part that had a wireless transceiver connected to the webcam itself. The webcam transceiver would communicate with the transceiver connected to the USB port.

-q

[Crossy]

If I were you I'd go for the Wi-Fi cameras that tywais is suggesting, piece of cake to set up and they don't actually need a PC to work, you WILL need a PC if you're going to want to record the surveillance footage though. Many actually come with the software you'll need to record the video.

Personally I'd get a cheap used PC from Fortune or (better if you can get there) Zeer [saturday morning is best, opens at 10.30], 2-3000 Baht will get you a perfectly functional machine that will do the job just fine, no need for a monitor etc. control it with VNC.

[paulfr]

Could be wireless from camera to a USB-PC controller much like

some ADSL connections here in LOS.

He will likely want to record to disc too I suspect.

I am sure there must be such devices but not sure they are readily

available in LOS.

Here is a company I bought from a few years ago.

Their product worked very well for me.

http://www.x10.com/homepage.htm

Edited July 28, 2007 by paulfr

[stumonster]

with just about all these cameras you will need to priovide a power supply to them - probably 12 VDC

a camera of this type - one of many out there - http://www.otima.com.tw/pan-tilt-ip-camera/pt_ip_cam.htm

will allow you to have full PZT ( pan,zoom,tilt ) and they have a built in webserver which means you can with a little bit of configuration of your ADSL router ( manually set the cameras ip address , forward the port of your choice to the camera ip at your router , and register your router with a dynamic DNS resolver ) then you can use any computer / mobile phone with a java enabled web browser - explorer / firefox / opera for PC . opera / netfront for mobile - to view and control the camera.

if you wanted to get really trendy you could leave a cheap PC running all the time on your home network with a IR motion sensor hooked to it and have the comp to send you an sms when the motion sensor was triggered.

[Simmo]

I've had nothing but trouble with Wireless IP cameras. They'll work fine for a few days and then the wireless signal will drop & someone on site will have to reset the camera. Same problems with a mix off d-link & level-one cameras and different models of wireless routers.

[RKASA]

with just about all these cameras you will need to priovide a power supply to them - probably 12 VDC

a camera of this type - one of many out there - http://www.otima.com.tw/pan-tilt-ip-camera/pt_ip_cam.htm

will allow you to have full PZT ( pan,zoom,tilt ) and they have a built in webserver which means you can with a little bit of configuration of your ADSL router ( manually set the cameras ip address , forward the port of your choice to the camera ip at your router , and register your router with a dynamic DNS resolver ) then you can use any computer / mobile phone with a java enabled web browser - explorer / firefox / opera for PC . opera / netfront for mobile - to view and control the camera.

if you wanted to get really trendy you could leave a cheap PC running all the time on your home network with a IR motion sensor hooked to it and have the comp to send you an sms when the motion sensor was triggered.

No need for any sensors wcguard (If I rem the name correctly) is a freeware that monitors the video signal of the cams for motion and then starts a time date stamp recording to the harddrive. If it goes static for preset time it stops recording. Its been awhile but I beleave it monitored up to 16 cams at a time. An old PC would be great for that and it could operate as a server or other thing at the same time. Its all out there on google sometimes you find the ware has cost, just get looking almost always a free version is there. It like rule 34 of the internet.