Webcan recording of site.
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The company I work for is developing a site in Hemel Hempstead. The project will be a test-bed for innovative building techniques.
We want to record the progress of the site at regular intervals - probably by webcam. The pictures taken can then be made into a film at the end of the project.
I guess the above could be achieved simply by using a webcam and emailing images every 5 minutes. We'd ideally like an automatically updating web page to display the latest image.
How would some of you pros tackle this?
We want to record the progress of the site at regular intervals - probably by webcam. The pictures taken can then be made into a film at the end of the project.
I guess the above could be achieved simply by using a webcam and emailing images every 5 minutes. We'd ideally like an automatically updating web page to display the latest image.
How would some of you pros tackle this?
Axis do some good Network Cameras, the Axis 211 looks about right. It also has it's own webserver so employees/clients can connect to it to see how the site is comming along.You can schedule it to automatically upload images via FTP or get it to email them to you.
www.axis.com/products/cam_211/index.htm
It retails for around £500.
Tim
www.axis.com/products/cam_211/index.htm
It retails for around £500.
Tim
I did this on a budget while my housemate built a Westfield in the garage. Borrowed an old Pentium laptop, set it up with a £50 web cam and used a wireless network to FTP new images onto my webspace every 3 seconds via the house broadband. This presented a real-time view of the garage on the homepage at www.megabird.co.uk (the webcam is now off). One in 5 images was archived on the laptop for selection to make into a timelapse movie at the end of the build.
Result of the first part of the build here: www.pistonheads.tv/video.asp?id=67 (frankly, the staggering number of images -- more than 120,000 -- to sort through is putting me off finishing the job!)
My company did the same thing with www.cathospital.co.uk (in fact, Cat Hospital came first, then I borrowed the equipement for the garage). Of course both of the above sites were built for fun and not for professional needs so you would probably want something that produces better quality images, but I just wanted to show that it needn't cost hundreds of pounds!
>> Edited by Bonce on Tuesday 29th June 23:04
Result of the first part of the build here: www.pistonheads.tv/video.asp?id=67 (frankly, the staggering number of images -- more than 120,000 -- to sort through is putting me off finishing the job!)
My company did the same thing with www.cathospital.co.uk (in fact, Cat Hospital came first, then I borrowed the equipement for the garage). Of course both of the above sites were built for fun and not for professional needs so you would probably want something that produces better quality images, but I just wanted to show that it needn't cost hundreds of pounds!
>> Edited by Bonce on Tuesday 29th June 23:04
timsta said:That sounds ideal.
Axis do some good Network Cameras, the Axis 211 looks about right. It also has it's own webserver so employees/clients can connect to it to see how the site is comming along.You can schedule it to automatically upload images via FTP or get it to email them to you.
www.axis.com/products/cam_211/index.htm
It retails for around £500.
Tim
Thanks for you replies, folks.
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