Off-the-shelf home remote monitoring system (was Re: Man in Germany Foils Burglary in Brazil)

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From: Dave Crocker <[email protected]>
Date: December 15, 2006 7:04:11 AM JST
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], Ross Stapleton-Gray <[email protected]>
Subject: Off-the-shelf home remote monitoring system (was Re: [IP]  
Man in Germany Foils Burglary in Brazil)



David Farber wrote:
> "Businessman Joao Pedro Wettlauser was in Cologne, Germany, on  
> Sunday when he received an alert on his phone informing him that  
> someone had entered his vacation house in Guaruja, 54 miles south  
> of Sao Paulo, police said.
> He quickly turned on his laptop and, thanks to security cameras  
> connected to the Internet, was able to see a tattooed man stuffing  
> goods into trash bags..."


On the one hand, it is clear that all of the pieces of technology and  
software for doing this are readily available.

On the other hand, I find myself unclear what the necessary details  
are, for arranging this sort of set up work in a normal home and with  
normal cell phones, smartphones, laptops, and the like.

As a small example, normal home Internet connections are not very  
workable for the operation of servers, yet this report described  
coming *from* the Internet and going *into* the home's resources.

I therefore suspect it would be of community benefit to have some  
folks suggest the pieces and how to arrange them.  This would be for  
a home with typical DSL or Cable Internet attachment, typical Windows  
or Macintosh machines, and a user who has good installation and  
administration skills, but not at the level of programming, or  
otherwise requiring deep expertise.

Or there might already be some citations to such recommendations.

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net