Off-the-shelf home remote monitoring system (was Re: [IP] Man in Germany Foils Burglary in Brazil)
Begin forwarded message:
From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@xxxxxxxx>
Date: December 15, 2006 7:04:11 AM JST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ross Stapleton-Gray <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Off-the-shelf home remote monitoring system (was Re: [IP]
Man in Germany Foils Burglary in Brazil)
David Farber wrote:
"Businessman Joao Pedro Wettlauser was in Cologne, Germany, on
Sunday when he received an alert on his phone informing him that
someone had entered his vacation house in Guaruja, 54 miles south
of Sao Paulo, police said.
He quickly turned on his laptop and, thanks to security cameras
connected to the Internet, was able to see a tattooed man stuffing
goods into trash bags..."
On the one hand, it is clear that all of the pieces of technology and
software for doing this are readily available.
On the other hand, I find myself unclear what the necessary details
are, for arranging this sort of set up work in a normal home and with
normal cell phones, smartphones, laptops, and the like.
As a small example, normal home Internet connections are not very
workable for the operation of servers, yet this report described
coming *from* the Internet and going *into* the home's resources.
I therefore suspect it would be of community benefit to have some
folks suggest the pieces and how to arrange them. This would be for
a home with typical DSL or Cable Internet attachment, typical Windows
or Macintosh machines, and a user who has good installation and
administration skills, but not at the level of programming, or
otherwise requiring deep expertise.
Or there might already be some citations to such recommendations.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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