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Spy Cameras - What Do you Want For Home?

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Spy Cameras - What Do you Want For Home?

Many regular homeowners want a spy camera to protect themselves from thieves and burglars. Another reason is that they may want to spy on some of their family members. Such homeowners usually do not know exactly what they want and need. There are so many options on the internet so a newbie could easily get lost in the online spy world. Here, we’ll try to find out what are the options about what home spy cameras should you choose.

Outdoor Spy Cameras

If you want to protect your house from the outside, then outdoor spy cams would be your best shot. Of course, they’ll be quite obvious and people will see that your house is secured. That’s actually one of the reasons to put a spy camera outside. It will let burglars know that your house is protected and they’ll less likely want to intrude.

Wired spy cameras will be harder to install, because of the wires. You might need to call a professional to drill the holes in your walls and place the wires conveniently in case you don’t know how to do that. Wireless cameras are much easier to install outside. They don’t require any cables, but you’ll still need to mount them on walls or under the roof somehow. Wireless CCTV camera transmitters and receiver will do the rest.

Indoors Hidden Cameras

Spy cameras inside the house are also used for security purposes. In case burglars sneak in the house, your home spy cams will detect the burglars and record their moves. There are even home security systems that have alarm functions built-in.

These security systems have motion detection devices. These devices guard and when they detect something or someone moving, they’ll turn on the alarm. It might be a sound signal, flashing lights near the house, both combinations; it might be an automatic phone call to you or your neighbors in case you’re away, it might be an email to your PC or laptop. Such systems will warn you or your neighbors in case of burglary.

Hidden Home Spy Cameras

Lastly, you may want a home spy cam that isn’t for security, but for spy and surveillance purposes. In that case, you don’t want you home cameras to be seen. So there are mini spy cameras used for this purpose. Such small cameras can be hidden anywhere, a baby toy, in a teddy bear, behind the book shelf, near the computer, etc. They can also be wired or wireless.

Or you may want to choose already made hidden cameras, meaning that they’re already stuffed into some regular everyday objects. Such spy cams may look like lamps, flowers, books, speakers, clocks, mirrors and so on. You don’t need to worry and think where to hide your cam in this case.

Editor: vivio tang

Article source:

http://www.articlesbase.com/technology-articles/what-home-spy-camera-do-you-want-55510.html



Greg

The Steps to Install a Spy Camera

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Crime is on the rise with the ailing economy. But thankfully, new technologies have led to decreases in home security prices. With today’s digital technology and the Internet, installing a camera and monitoring it from anywhere in the world can be done in minutes. So if you ever wanted to spy on your wife, husband, son, daughter, or baby-sitter, here is a simple method to installing spy cameras.

 

Step 1 Decide what you’re interested in spying on. Where and who you will be spying on will determine what type of camera you will buy and how you go about setting it up. Some places that you might want to consider are the baby’s room, the living room or your spouse’s or girlfriend/boyfriend’s car.

 

Step 2 Choose the camera. There are a variety of cameras available today that are disguised as everyday objects such as pens, wall clocks, air purifiers, and books, among other things. These are self-contained and have built in SD memory cards which will record the activities. You just take the card and plug it into your computer to play them back. Then there are also Wi-Fi cams that need to be plugged into a VCR or a laptop.

 

Step 3 Install the cameras. The complexity of installing a camera will depend on the camera itself. Most of the smaller units that are disguised as every day things run on batteries and all they require is to be positioned in the proper place and switched on. The wall mounted security cams require a bit more work. Simply attach them to a wall using the mounting screws and then plug them into a power source. Most of these are weather resistant so you can get them wet and install them outside.

 

Step 4 Connect your TV or computer to the wireless camera. If your camera is wireless then all you need to do is connect the wireless video receiver to a power supply then run the cable that comes with it to your television or VCR. The cables will be color coded yellow and red and you simply plug the right corresponding color into the correct hole. You can also plug the receiver into the USB port in your laptop and use it as a digital video recording device.

 

Step 5 Monitor your cameras on the Internet. Some of the wireless cameras that can be hooked up to a computer using a wireless receiver can also be connected to the Internet by using HomeCamera.com Simply sign up for a free account download the software and install it on your computer. Once installed you will need to keep your computer that is attached to the video receiver on and connected to the Internet. You’ll be able to access your cameras from any laptop, PDA, or web enbabled mobile phone.

 

Have you got it? If you want to buy spy cameras or other home security equipment, welcome to www.ipodtshop.com, have a good look of the products, I think you will enjoy them.

Internet reference: http://www.ehow.com/how_5260661_install-spy-camera.html

Editor: Jodie



Chris