
These guys are predicting a $1 Billion market for DIY network cameras by 2012. That works out to about 10 million cameras per year, if you assume the cameras cost about $100 each.
Gosh, sure would be nice if someone built a cloud based service that would leverage all those cameras. Wait, that's what sensr.net is about.
Got a network camera? Try sensr.net. We provide sharing, archiving, and alerting for your network camera. We support almost any brand of network camera. As long as the camera has FTP, it will work with our cloud based service.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
$1 Billion DIY Video Surveillance Camera Market
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Monday, August 9, 2010
Configuring the Cisco WVC80N on Sensr
I recently found the Cisco WVC80N for sale at Best Buy. I was visiting my relatives in the Midwest and hoping to buy a camera that I could configure for them with sensr.net. To use network cameras with Sensr, you need one that supports FTP. I was disappointed to find that FTP was not listed on the side of the box. Since this was the only network camera they had, and the store was closing in 10 minutes, I did a quick search from my iPhone and found this FAQ, indicating that indeed the camera will support FTP.
- Lack of timed FTP uploads
- Active X is required for the web configuration
- Too expensive
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Friday, July 30, 2010
Barbie Cam
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Can't FTP from IP Camera
At sensr.net we provide free FTP logins for people with network cameras. A common problem is that IP cameras, like the DCS-920, can't always do DNS. This means that the camera can have problems reaching our servers, say f3.sensr.net, since it can't find the IP address for the FTP server.
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Saturday, July 17, 2010
Wow, 10 years of beguelin.com
Back in 2000 I registered the domain name beguelin.com for 10 years. It expired this month and I had to renew it again. Network Solutions sent me a letter in the mail since the old Yahoo email address they had on file for me didn't work anymore.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
sensr.net now supporting kyivstar sms

At sensr.net we received a request from one of our Ukrainian users asking us to support SMS for his local phone carrier. Luckily we're using a package called sms-fu that makes adding carriers very easy.
sms_fu.yml file now has these additional lines, which means our users can select the appropriate Kyivstar email to SMS gateway.kyivstar-contract:
name: Kyivstar (contract)
value: @sms.kyivstar.net
kyivstar-prepaid:
name: Kyivstar (prepaid)
value: @2sms.kyivstar.net
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
Quicktime Screen Recording
Quicktime (version 10.0) on Snow Leopard makes it crazy easy to create screencasts. I was playing with the experimental DVR view on sensr.net this morning and thought it would be cool to be able to screencast it.
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