The use of home monitoring over the internet may be your solution to keeping track of things at home while away from home. There are several types of home monitoring over the internet that are being used today including nanny cams, baby cams, nursery cams, pet cams, and security cams. Modern technology has yielded home security cameras that offer a multitude of features and can be networked over the internet while remaining affordably priced.
Home monitoring over the internet can be accomplished in two basic ways. A basic home analog security system consists of from one to several analog Closed Circuit Television CCTV cameras, a processing unit with recorder, and a monitor. A basic home digital video security system consists of one to several digital video cameras, a processor, a monitor, and a Digital Video Recorder or DVR.
An analog system can be converted to home monitoring over the internet by using either a hybrid DVR or a video server. This is a specific integrated circuit that is dedicated to only capturing analog video signals and transferring them into digital video signals. Once the analog video is converted to digital, it is transferred into a digital video file. An analog to digital video server does the same digitizing converting process but does not record the file.
Instead it sends the file along the network where it can be handled at another location. The key is that once the analog signal is digitized, using the proper software or hardware equipment it can be manipulated and transmitted over the internet, using the internet as the virtual network for the cameras. Home monitoring over the internet using modern IP cameras can eliminate a lot of excessive work that is required in converting analog video signals or manipulating non-IP ready digital cameras to make them internet accessible.
Although these cameras can still be connected to monitors or standalone DVRs, they may also be used with a simple broadband internet connection and a personal computer. The personal computer is usually able to use an internet browser or a software program provided by the camera manufacturer to monitor and record the video transmissions. Therefore, home monitoring over the internet can be accomplished using the new advanced IP camera technology or by converting the more traditional analog CCTV video to digital and then preparing it for and sending it by the internet.
In both cases, once the video transmission is internet ready and is streamed across the internet, you can view your home security system anywhere the internet is accessible. Most of us consider having data service in our home to be very important, especially for anyone operating a home-based business. On the other hand, fewer and fewer of us really need landline-based telephone service. The problem is, most burglar alarm monitoring service requires a landline phone connection.
That situation is changing quickly. By switching to internet alarm monitoring, we can keep our security system sending signals as it should, ditch the monthly phone bill, and save some money. Connecting your security system to the Internet can also let you take advantage of the many new smart home technologies, depending on the system you choose. With traditional landline dial-up reporting, an alarm system makes a phone call to a special receiver at the central monitoring station.
Internet alarm monitoring bypasses the slow landline path, and instead connects the alarm panel to your DSL or high-speed data connection. This allows the panel to do all of the above communication steps in just a few seconds. Keep in mind that in most areas, our DSL or cable-based high-speed internet connections are also carried over a landline. Just like phone lines, these connections can be vulnerable to being cut by a potential burglar. If you have strong concerns over your telephone or data lines being cut, you should consider going with cellular-based wireless alarm monitoring.
The T-Link family of universal Alarm Internet Communicators can also be programmed to communicate events to two different e-mail addresses. These e-mail addresses can be associated with a personal computer, pager, enabled mobile phone, or PDA. These designations may lower the customer's insurance premiums even further than just standard monitoring.
When in alarm, the enabled module sends an encrypted message through the Internet to our Alarm Monitoring Central Station. This device utilizes industry-leading, bit AES encryption, polling, and hardware substitution protection and application-specific hardware to help eliminate security risks. Because the TL communication stream is minimal and draws only small amounts of network bandwidth, the data transfer remains timely and accurate. Programming the T-Link communicators can be accomplished locally using a keypad or the T-Link Console software over the IP network connection made directly to the Ethernet port.
By interfacing to the communicator's four on-board programmable inputs, the unit can be configured to operate as a stand-alone communicator for interfacing existing third-party control equipment. Full, two-way communication with the T-Link module and the Alarm Monitoring Central Station's Receivers' IP line cards allow for alarm reporting, as well as remote diagnostics.
System administration of panel events, user codes, and control capabilities are also features of the T-Link console software. Administration of accounts can be accomplished over the Internet from anywhere in the world using free download software - no other software application is required. Software updates can be downloaded remotely from any personal computer, as the hardware platform of the T-Link family of Alarm Monitoring Communicators features upgradeable flash memory.
Many existing digital communicator alarm control panel formats are not compatible with the major Voice-over Internet Protocol VoIP network services.
Therefore, alarm signal data may be lost or distorted and may not be transmitted to our Alarm Monitoring Central Station reliably.
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