more on Off-the-shelf home remote monitoring system (was Re: [IP] Man in Germany Foils Burglary in Brazil) or Kindergarten Cam Redux
Begin forwarded message:
From: Bob Frankston <Bob2-19-0501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 15, 2006 7:56:46 AM JST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Off-the-shelf home remote monitoring system (was Re:
[IP] Man in Germany Foils Burglary in Brazil) or Kindergarten Cam Redux
This is the same story we saw ten years ago with camera in a
kindergarten so a parent could view the child from the office. The
telling fact that this is still new and novel because people didn’t
understand the real importance of the story – they probably
considered a tale of how someone managed to do the impossible when
the real point was that it was straightforward. But that was then,
today we have a more twisting and winding passages but it is still
doable off-to-the shelf.
Many webcam companies offer this as a standard feature using their
web sites to rendezvous in lieu of having stable end point
identifiers. This is much in the “just works” category – at least in
terms of connecting to the cameras. The cameras typically have motion
detection and can even email alerts with images. As you pay more you
get features such automatic panning and logging and microphones.
While this is all nice it is typically packaged and wrapped into a
browser control – I do want access to the lower level APIs. But this
is part of the larger issue of taking back the Edge-to-Edge Internet
(End-to-End now is interpreted as Womb-to-Tomb) as I explain in
http://www.frankston.com/?name=OurInternet.
Of course we should also think a little about privacy issues—how good
are the implementations? Can we assume the images are encrypted?
PS: I note the article says that the camera was connected to the
Internet. I hope that we’ll soon get past this because how else would
you connect the camera to anything? Today we still have special
camera (or video) wires. That does seem strange, having a wire for
each purpose and special radios for each kind of bit. Very strange
indeed.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 17:20
To: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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@stapleton-
gray.com>
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 southof 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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