Many of our home and business surveillance camera systems are also remotely viewable from a Blackberry PDA phone. These systems will allow you to view your live security cameras wherever you are in the world from your Blackberry phone with 3G/4G or WiFi internet connectivity. Some of our systems even include the ability to control PTZ cameras, playback video remotely or even control digital inputs and outputs remotely. Now you can stay connected to your home or business over the internet right from the palm of your hand with your Blackberry phone.

Choose from the features below, to select a system that will provide the level of remote viewing desired from your Blackberry PDA Phone, then follow the link to find a system that will suit your needs.

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Best Blackberry remote viewing of Security CCTV Cameras

Our Alnet VDR-S software for DVR Cards (Traditional CCTV security camera ) and Alnet Netstation NVR Software offers full compatibility with most Blackberry PDA phones. For a LIVE DEMO for your Blackberry PDA phone, click the link below on your Blackberry phone and then find and click the Link for your particular Blackberry Model on your PDA Phone to download and install the software. This Blackberry Alnet CMS Mobile application will have several built-in servers that will allow you to view live cameras in Europe and the US to test out the application.

Police in Worcester have released a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to about a burglary at a city centre phone shop. The Three store on High Street was burgled between 8.30pm and 8.45pm on 10 April. It is believed the offenders had managed to get hold of a set of keys and used them to get in via the front door of the shop.

A significant number of mobile phones were stolen in the incident. Detective Constable Vanessa Haller is leading the investigation into the burglary. She said: “This is a high value burglary in which thousands of pounds worth of mobile phones were taken. ”Over the past months, we have managed to confirm the details of the dark Volkswagen Golf used by the offenders, which we believe to be connected to people from the Quinton and Shard End areas of the West Midlands. A nice choice of CCTV camera systems can be found here - www.123-cctv.com

“Evidence from the scene shows that the vehicle was driven by a black man and it is thought another black man and also a white man were involved in the burglary. ”Despite this, we are yet to identify those responsible for the burglary and we are keen for anyone who knows anything about it to get in touch. ”In particular, we would like to trace the man in this CCTV image who may have vital information which could help us with our investigation. ”I would urge anyone who recognises him to call us or, if you are the man in the image, contact us straight away so that we can eliminate you from our inquiries.”

Software that turns groups of ordinary camera cellphones into a “smart” security camera systems network has been developed by Swiss researchers. The team says it will release the software for programmers and users to experiment with.

The software employs Bluetooth, a short-range wireless technology included in many modern phones, to automatically share information and let the phones collectively analyse events that they record. This provides a platform for a group of phones to act as smart network capable of, for example, spotting intruders or identifying wildlife.

Other researchers are developing similar intelligent camera networks. These work like an ordinary CCTV Cameras, but use software instead of a human analyst to interpret what is happening on screen, comparing the footage captured by each camera for a more complete picture.

Philipp Bolliger, Moritz Köhler and Kay Römer at the Institute for Pervasive Computing in Zurich, Switzerland, wanted to make such camera networks more accessible. So they developed software called Facet that transforms a few cellphones into a smart security camera network.

To test the software, the researchers attached four Nokia 6630 phones running Facet to the ceiling of a corridor in their department. The phones were angled so that the camera of each could see a different part of the corridor and so that they could all see peopling walking past.

Complex tasks

Whenever a phone detects an object entering or exiting its field of view, it sends a message via Bluetooth to alert the phones on either side. These phones, in turn, pass the message on to other nearby handsets so that eventually the entire network receives the message.

One handset on the network also reports this information to a computer over a normal GPRS cellphone connection.

Each phone determines the distance to its nearest neighbour. The phones currently use the average speed people walk to guess the distances between themselves, based on how long people take to move from one phone’s view to another’s.

In testing, the system determined the distances between each phone with about 95% accuracy. They were placed 4 metres apart, making it accurate to about 20 centimetres. In future, recording the speed at which objects pass by would make more accurate judgments possible.

Knowing the shape of the cellphone network provides the foundation for the system to perform more complex tasks, says Bolliger. Facet could, for example, report via text message when someone walks down a corridor in a particular direction, or sound an alarm if a dangerous animal approaches a campsite, he suggests.

Zooming in

The researchers plan to release Facet as an open-source project, allowing anyone to use or modify its code, and to experiment with networked camera phones running the software. “Because of the way we implemented it, the whole thing will run in Java on virtually any phone you want,” Bolliger says. “It will be very nice to see what people come up with.”

Before they release the software, however, the Zurich team hopes to improve it. “The next step is better image analysis – for example, to look at the shape or identity of objects,” Bolliger explains. Facet can currently only spot things around 1 metre in size. “Our goal would be around 10 or 15 cm,” he adds.

“I like the idea of easily connecting many phones,” says Eiman Kanjo, a researcher at Cambridge University in the UK, who is working on using cellphones to record urban pollution.

“But I don’t think they have found the best application yet,” she says. “I think this would be best used in other places, when it becomes open source other people might brain storm and find the killer app.”

The technology available today in security camera systems is quite amazing. With this great technology comes a lot of decision making. When deciding on a system for your business, there are several important points to consider. Following the 10 steps outlined in this article will help you make an informed decision.

Remote viewing

one of the most important reasons businesses get security camera systems is to monitor their employees and customers. It is very important that your system gives you the ability to view your cameras remotely from anywhere you have internet access.

Motion trigger

This is a feature most security camera consultants over look, but is extremely important. You are not capable of watching your security cameras 24/7. You want an intelligent system. You want a system that will alert you when predetermined conditions happen.

For example, you can program your DVR to send you an email with the image that triggered an event. A good example is a safe in your office. You can program the DVR to send you an email with an image when someone comes around the safe.

Number of remote users

How many people will be accessing the system remotely to view video. You will want to make sure the software in the system has the capability to handle the number of remote users.

Bandwidth

Your remote viewing will be over the internet. The number of remote viewers and the size of the video files will have an impact on the amount of bandwidth you have available. Your security consultant should assist you in calculating your bandwidth requirements.

Lighting conditions

The lighting conditions for the areas you want to view is going to be very important. The more detail you want to see the better the lighting conditions have to be. Take into consideration that you might have to improve some of your lighting conditions before installing your security cameras.

Investigative detail

This is very important if you want to be able to get enough detail from your recorded video to investigate recorded events. With most CCTV cameras and DVRs you are not able to zoom in on the recorded images to get any meaningful detail. If this is a requirement you have to have, make sure you ask for cameras and DVRs that can do this and that you see a demo before making your decision.

situations where the bright light blinds the camera. A good example, is when you have a camera looking at a door that is in the path of the sun. The glass can soften the glare of the sun enough for the camera to produce a good image. But when you open the door, the bright light shining in blinds the camera.

To avoid this, you will need a wide dynamic range camera. This camera will make the necessary compensation to give you a high quality image when the camera is in the path of the sun.

Expandability

You will add cameras as you get more familiar with your new system. It is important that you get a system that is expandable. You want to be able to add more cameras without having to buy another digital video recorder.

Analog vs IP

The installation costs involved with CCTV systems can be quite high. One way to reduce them is to take advantage of your existing computer network. To do this, you will need IP cameras, that can be installed into your computer network like any other computer device.

This will not only help you reduce your install costs, it will also help you take advantage of the advances in IP CCTV cameras.

Smart phone compatible

Finally you want to make sure your DVR is compatible with your smart phone. With this capability you are able to view your security cameras remotely from your smart phone. You will also have the capability to have your DVR send messages with images or video clips to your phone.

Go over these points with your security camera consultant and make sure you get a demonstration of all features before you make your decision. Following these points will make sure you get a system you will be happy with.