Here is an interesting link on youtube that explains how to set up an IP camera. It describes how to take an Axis camera that has the standard factory defaults and configure it to be available from the public Internet. This includes the steps necessary to configure an IP address on the camera, port forwarding [...]
There was an interesting article on NPR about the increase in buyer’s remorse. Joseph LaRocca, vice president of loss prevention with the National Retail Federation estimates that retailers are expected to experience nearly $220 Billion (yes, that’s with a “B”) in returns in 2008.
That represents an unprecedented risk to retailers because with that many returns, [...]
We just recently (Oct 30) pushed a new feature of Envysion Video — online trouble ticketing support. There is now a link on our page that allows a user to automatically generate a trouble ticket into our Network Operations Center.
It’s always interesting to develop a feature like this. The most difficult decision was to decide [...]
I write a post about standards and interoperability from time to time, and I’m afraid its time again. To wit; one of our customers has asked for us to incorporate a temperature sensor into our application. Their idea is that they put this sensor into their freezer/refrigerator and if the inside starts to warm up, [...]
As Arthur C. Clarke once said was the best advice given by Douglas Adams, I too think it’s the best advice software as a service companies should give themselves. The chart below is one version of the fundamental reason why.
More people are connecting to the Internet today than in past years. The chart [...]
I ran across an interesting file sharing site whalemail.com. The intent of this site is to make it feasible to share large files via email. The way the system works is that you use your browser to upload a file to the site and then type in a list of email addresses. The site then [...]
A September 25 article in Nation’s Restaurant News by Alan Liddle touts a new SaaS service from MenuCalc that can be used to compute nutritional analysis of menu items. With an increasingly health conscious nation, nutritional analysis is rapidly moving to be a critical part of many restaurants. According to Dawn Saxton, co-founder and [...]
I was talking with my kids about the various customer trials we are conducting at Envysion, and I mentioned a certain chain that sells lots of video games. My son immediately jumped on the topic with an interesting marketing idea.
Like many others, it took Ted about 6 months of diligent calling, a few 6 am [...]
Yesterday I blogged about sharing video from a web camera. Today, I’d like to talk about sharing video from surveillance cameras. What is typical state-of-the-art today? The answer is not very sophisticated. A user typically would need to travel to be physically next to the DVR. Then they would use the user interface to burn [...]
Here is yet another photo sharing site whose innovation is around the layout of photos, allowing you to share them in books ala scrap-book style. Its interesting to see there is still innovation (you be the judge of good or bad) in this area. Which brings me to ask, how to you typically share video?
Well, [...]
