Monitor Your Business with Wireless Surveillance
Robert Strohmeyer
Even the best managers can't be everywhere at once. So, for those times when you have to be away from your business, wireless surveillance can be an easy way to keep an eye on the shop. And when you aren't away, it's still pretty handy, too. This week, Linksys announced the new WVC2300 Wireless-G Business Internet Video Camera with Audio, which not only lets you keep watch over your business, but lets you listen in and talk back whenever you like.
Apart from its obvious Orwellian implications, the WVC2300 is bound to find all sorts of uses around the workplace. Place one in the reception area so you can see who's coming and going. Stick one in the server room and you can talk with your IT staff for tag-team troubleshooting. Or put one outside the building entrance to screen after-hours visitors.
The WVC2300 offers simultaneous streaming of both MPEG-4 and MJPEG codecs, which makes it versatile enough to stream over the web using its built-in web server, or record to a NAS for more serious security monitoring. IP multicast allows several viewers to monitor the feed at the same time.
With an MSRP of $399.99, the WVC2300 is modestly priced for a full-featured, wireless, audio-enabled surveillance camera, and it works with a variety of add-ins, including remote zoom lenses and remote-controlled pan-and-tilt mounting bases that let you adjust your view on the fly.
Community Comments