Monday, January 30, 2012

Hey, something is wrong here

Ok, ok, let me explain. I saw consumer level several surveillance systems that offer you fat client and collect your video at their server. So far so good, you can have simple access to this video from your lovely AndroidIphone. But wait, does it mean you can eventually find yourself on youtube with 100000 views. It is good that you are not naked there but who knows... That makes me little bit nervous. Even company disclaimers and promises cant aware me that it is impossible (on the other hand why millions credit cards get stolen directly from Visa). Personally I see little bit different schema, I'd call it reverted logic, let go out only what you want to go and keep locally whatever is coming by default. But in this case you cant have access from your phone. Well I doubt, and second you don't make useless traffic, remember day when internet "stood still" is coming.

Give me my service, not software

That is. We are looking for services now, it is like sex without strings attached. I need my data repository, well guys from bitbucket know how, Tax preparation? no problem, just start your browser. Software could be stolen, service never, what a beauty! So now when somebody offers me to download and install 40M installer I feel bad, why ? I know the result: junk on a disk, junk in registry, installation problem, tons of questions, for upgrade unistall / install. Now imagine surveillance system, by nature it is complex beast, and it just asks to turn it into the service. It could be great, choose any workstation you like, and just login to service provider. Done. You see all your cameras, all your presets loaded based on role, you get notifications etc...
Mission accomplished.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Why Web cameras still alive ?

This is mystery for me.
So that is correct,  IP Cam were expensive but now you can easily buy one for $40-50. And you can place it anywhere. Yo can control it from any browser, from remote computer or sometimes (if you lucky) from you phone. Another strange thing, for instance Silverlight doesn't support streaming video "out of box"" but supports Web Cam. What is wrong with that people ? Siverlight is browser style application, it has nothing with local computer, so what the reason ? Oh, couple good words about Web Cam - is is cheap and standard. Programming of such beast just pleasure ;)
This is it.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Hello world!

Hello visitor,
This is first post of Vos Video company. We are going to make nice, useful, free and VERY easy to use  surveillance system for everybody who are looking for property protection. We know many things about video cameras, security, and software development. So stay tuned, support us, drop couple words, be our Friend, follow us on twitter and check sometimes our home page www.vosvideo.com (under development at this moment)

Vos Video development Team