Internet-enabled security cameras are nothing new, but Cernium's Archerfish system mixes in some smart video-analysis software and Sling-style placeshifting to make monitoring your home from afar a little easier. Up to four cameras can feed 352 x 240 resolution video into the $1000 box, which contains a TI DaVinci chip powerful enough to intelligently analyze the video for people and vehicles, encode it to H.264, and send it to wherever you are, along with text and email alerts if so desired. Of course, it wouldn't be 2009 if there wasn't a monthly fee for cloud-based hosting, and Archerfish is no exception -- you don't log in to your own box, you have to shell out $20/mo to access the MyArcherfish dashboard to review your footage. Of course. It's all on sale soon, including a $1,500 two camera bundle.
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posted Feb 13th 2009 6:23AM
While awesome 352 x 240 resolution ensures reasonable doubt.
Why on earth should anybody choose this thing instead of one of Logitech's home surveillance systems?
Not only they are more reliable, more practical, more versatile, and more discreet,they are much cheaper too.
More reliable? More Discreet? not really. That's a pretty small box, and I don't know how you can tell its unreliable if you don't own one... However, practical, versatile, and cheaper? You're probably right on that one.
They're dreaming, you can do this with a $200 IP camera with no monthly fee. Motion sensing is all the analyzing I need.
I don't understand why after a couple of decades of surveillance camera technology, we still use grainy, low resolution video. With hard drive space as cheap as it is, why not some 720p surveillance video? Might actually perform its function of helping to identify any suspects rather than a grey blob being shown on the nightly news.
what? no ugly serial port?!
BNC connectors for 352 x 240 resolution...ha!
Except for the analysis, I could hook this up myself for like $100 or less with no monthly fee. I'm so sick of this crap. It very well could be a good product, but they're not tricking anybody, price-wise, that's looking at this for serious purposes.
Anyone know of any other people/vehicle-analyzing boxes? What's their price?
Well there are free capable software tools that runs on any standard computer with windows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwisTrack
Which uses intel's open source (bsd license) computer vision library OpenCV:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCV
I use the open-source "Motion" package (not that it does people/auto identification, but it certainly tracks anything of interest). I have several video capture cards from BlueCherry.com, and it's all running in a low-end Dell server. Total cost: under $1500. Of course, the cameras and wiring add on to the price. But I have good perimeter coverage, and up to about 6 months worth of stills and video, all accessible via the web.
Check out these guys for that price you can get something way better
https://www.closeoutcctv.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=19
The end result- low resolution, grainy video surveillance cameras... phew.... what a waste of time.
Technology has developed
check this for your price
http://www.securitycameraking.com
Tha's too much to ask for, better than this having simple home security surveillance system. I think the cost is too high
If you need a free ADT home security system check us out at:
http://www.residential-security-services.com