A good friend of mine who owns an electronics contract manufacturing
company put a half dozen of these in his building a couple months ago:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=3DN82E16881175003

He monitors the rear loading dock area, front entry way and has the rest
spread out in the manufacturing area.

The software works surprisingly well at recognizing humans (and not other
moving things). He can access any of the cameras in real time on his office
PC, smart phone or over his VPN in his home office. The software acn also
be setup to ftp images to another server or send email notifications if
human motion is detected based on a scheduled period of operation.

Video quality is surprisingly good. The night vision pictures from his
front entry way are not bad either.

Some of the units are hardwired and some are using Wifi (which also works
better than expected). We were concerned about mounting the rear loading
dock camera outside but we mounted it in a camera "hutch" that protects it
against the worst of the elements. So far it's withstood several days of
sub-freezing temperatures, a snow storm and a couple healthy rain storms
without missing a beat.

I'm going to get a couple of them for monitoring my house. Overall, I've
been impressed with them -- especially for the money.

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems

On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:11:21 -0800, PICdude wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> For a small office-warehouse space, rather than pay ~$40/month for alarm
> monitoring with the fear of extra excessive charges for false alarms
> (past experience), I'm considering a DIY self-monitoring system.
>
> I'd rather pay $40 for cable internet service, and have a system that
> notifies me by email, text, etc that there's some intrusion.  With a
> camera system (that I plan to get anyway), I can then log in to see
> inside and contact the police if there's some issue.
>
> Anyone know of any system that does this?  Preferably DIY as I can use a
> change of project for a bit.  Or I could build one, but I'm not too
> familiar with any type of ethernet/internet/IP communications (from a
> microcontroller standpoint).  Perhaps I can do this easily with an
> arduino, ethernet shield, LCD, and keypad.
>
> Or perhaps someone knows a better forum to discuss this?
>
> Cheers,
> -Neil.

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