The perfect home surveillance starter kit
24/7 home security, monitoring and control is no longer the preserve of the rich and famous, thanks to the launch of a simple to use, affordable and reliable surveillance Starter Kit from myhome247. Comprising an XG1000 System Controller, discreet Panasonic BL-C1 Network Camera and a Door/Window Contact, you can now easily view your protected premises remotely, either from their mobile phone, or an internet enabled PC or Laptop. Pretty freaking sweet, but it gets better.
To provide 24hour security, the Starter Kit’s wireless sensors can be set to raise audible alarms, or interact with other devices (such as turning on a light) while real-time alerts to security breaches can be received instantly via email. The myhome247 Starter Kit can be set up to send email alerts up to eight different addresses when abnormal activity is detected in response to whatever rules (or macros) you have set. In addition, text message alert bundles can be purchased separately to allow instant notification of unauthorised activity via text message. We rekon that with some simple changes to the email handling you could use twitter or similar message services to send out an all points alert!
The Starter Kit makes it easy to monitor the property too from wherever you are in the world. You can view exactly what’s happening from your mobile phone by viewing live video or can look at the time and date stamped archive of captured events including play back of recorded video clips. This allows you to instantly see what is happening in your home and alleviates false alarms. Critically, the captured images/video clips & data are saved remotely to a hosted secure server, which means that any unauthorised intruder cannot corrupt the device the images are stored on. Smart thinking.
To underpin this comprehensive functionality, the Starter Kit uses secure wireless technology in the gateway, allowing it to communicate with all the peripheral monitoring devices. The network cameras can be used with Ethernet over Power modules (which are seriously slick) to eliminate the need for network cabling within the home making the system extremely easy to install.
Jayne Van Rensburg, Director of Mysecurity247 Ltd. said: “Security systems that provide remote monitoring are traditionally expensive to buy and install and don’t allow the end user to actually see what is happening in their home. This new system is extremely easy to set up and is very affordable. Also the fact that it is a modular system allows the end user flexibility to add a variety of devices and have full control over the system to suit their needs. Importantly, it does not need a PC to be constantly switched on and can support PC, Mac and Linux browsers in operation. But really the main feature is the instant access right into your home directly from your mobile, keeping you protected and connected 24/7.”
Pricing and availability
The myhome247 starter kit comprises the XG1000 System Controller a Panasonic BL-C1 Network Camera and a Door/Window Contact Sensor. The starter kits costs £249.99 with a nominal £5.95 per month fee for a 5Mb storage capacity and a variety of text message alert bundles are available from just £3.75. You can point your eyes at www.myhome247.co.uk to get all the detailed info direct from the source.
Personally… a great bit of kit offering a lot for the cash. Yes, you could buy similar items separately for less, but you lose the easy of communication between the devices, the simple setup, and the support for the system as a whole. Do you currently have a set up of your own or does something like this bite at your interest sensors?
4:37 pm on March 19th, 2008
The idea of the “pet cam” is pretty cool, especially if you can get one to go on the cats neck.