John wrote:


I want to put in a few infrared/usual wireless cameras in my house
and monitor them thru the pc. Preferably with a pan tilt unit
attached to each one. Anyone knows something like this that
is available which has a low lumen and is cheap. Any comments
are appreciated,

Thanks,
--j

Well, there are hundreds upon hundreds different vendors and models that
you can look at. Give me some idea about your price range: you could waste
(not too much of) your money on X-10 wireless crap (Not to confuse with
X-10 protocol that would be used to control your lights, I'm talking about
the "X-10" company that produces and heavily advertises wireless cameras)
or you can shell out a bit more and build a solid "traditional" (wired for
composite video cameras) system or, with even more green you can get
yourself cutting edge IP-based security system with PC-based DVRs and
software movement detection.

So, the big questions a what is the application and how much money have
you got to implement it?

Oh, by the way, don't get carried away with advertised ease of
installation and lack of running wire for *wireless* surveillance: you
will find that you still have to run at least one cable to power the
suckers (especially PTZ that needs several times the power of a fixed
camera), and chasing sources of electromagnetic interference (EMI) is not
fun at all. So it may very well be so that your wired cameras will cost
less in term of money, time and effort than wireless, and will be both
more reliable and secure.

Good luck!

Cheers!
D.
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