Normally when you own a shop or a building where you have your office and you keep valuable things in there, either in a safe deposit or simply on the table, you are very careful to have the surrounding area secured and permanently monitored in order to be able to prevent the stealing of these documents or valuable things and also to be able to identify the perpetrator in case there has been a breaking and entry. So usually they use security systems with video cameras installed and these devices record everything happening in the perimeter and all the tapes or CDs recorded can be analyzed later in case something happened. But if you only want to supervise one room, for example your personal office because you suspect someone has been visiting it while you were gone or if you have a room that you lock at home and forbid the nanny or your children for example to enter there, you can use your webcam as a smaller, but fully effective surveillance device. And because you don’t want to record hours and hours of video files with nothing happening and where you can only see the empty room, it would be a good idea to use a motion detector . CTSCameraDetector 1.0.3 is the perfect tool for you if you thought about the things I just mentioned. It is a very simple software utility that allows you to use your webcam as a surveillance device for personal use.
The basic principle of functioning is quite easy: you set the camera with a motion sensor and it only activates when somebody is moving around, in its area. This triggers the webcam (either from the laptop or desktop computer ) to capture the images in front of it and perform one of the following activities that you have to set first: send the image captured to a certain pre-established email address, keep recording for a few minuted and save the video capture on the hard disk or perform any other kind of activity you might choose.
CTSCameraDetector 1.0.3 is developed by CameraTunerSoft.com , has just 3.4 MB in size and is compatible with all versions of Windows following XP. It is very simple and easy to use and is also freeware, meaning that you can download and use it for free .
I find this software application both as a professional and as a parent. It can be easily adjusted to monitor children, so you can keep an eye on them when they think they are unsupervised and see if they do something wrong or stupid, you can also supervise on your nanny, as there are enough cases when they behave rudely with the children when the parents are not at home. Besides, I find it very clever to use a common device like a webcam, a thing that we all have on the desk, for such a job. It reduces the cost of a surveillance action quite a lot and so does the motion detector which only starts the webcam when there is some movement around, so it won’t record tons of unnecessary video files when nothing happens. I simple love it.
