Outdoor Home Monitoring Cameras Catch Christmas Thieves

This past holiday, thieves stole packages off doorsteps and porches at an astounding rate. Most of the parcels were gifts the homeowners purchased online to give to friends and family. Online gift purchasing is a popular trend, especially for those with work and home responsibilities and little time for mall shopping. The media called the thieves “Grinches,” but that only likened them to a cartoon character that actually had a heart. The real thieves, who completely ruined the holidays for so many hardworking people, had no hearts at all. Individuals lost money they specifically put aside for the holiday, special items they selected for loved ones, and hundreds of dollars.

Homeowners Videotaped Thieves

There was, however, some positive news. Various homeowners had previously installed Wireless Outdoor Home Monitoring Cameras that videotaped the goings on around their homes and where their packages were left. Many had a feature that cued the camera to turn on when it detected motion, so when the thieves stepped onto to porch and/or steps, recording began.

These homeowners caught full, facial shots of the thieves, which they provided to police and also posted online and on social media. The police were then able to make various arrests, including a 65-year old woman who one victim called “the Granny Who Stole Christmas". She may also be involved in other cases.

Wireless Home Monitoring Camera

A Wireless Home Monitoring Camera or Wi-Fi Monitoring Camera is a suitable for outdoors and can be mounted almost anywhere. You can link it to your computer, cell phone, iPad, and/or any device you wish.

Depending on your device and system, you can record and/or receive live footage of areas around your home, business, or wherever you wish. Some offer features such as the above mentioned motion sensor and others have speakers, which allow you to communicate to whoever may be near the camera.

In order to record, you’ll need to purchase a camera with storage ability and/or cloud capacity and/or use a separate DVR system. Most cameras with recording capability come with onboard SD or microSD slots that provide adequate recording space.

Wi-Fi Camera Halts Theft and Helps Catch Suspect

A young man installed a few Home Monitoring Cameras with night vision in his apartment. He linked them to his smartphone, arranged for a live stream feed, activated the voice system, and set up various alerts. Then, he went about his life.

One evening, while he was out with friends, an alert sounded on his smartphone that a window had been opened. He then accessed the live feed and watched in astonishment as a thief wandered around his apartment and piled up his belongings, including his television, computer, stereo, and other valuables. Remembering the voice system, the young man activated it and ordered the thief to leave his home.Startled, the thief ran away.

The young man showed the recorded footage of the incident to police, who used it to arrest the thief.

How wonderful, the young man, who paid a very reasonable price for his Wi-Fi Cameras, didn’t lose any valuables and participated in the capture of the thief.

Wireless Home Monitoring Cameras

Wireless Home Monitoring Cameras or Wi-Fi Monitoring Cameras, as their names suggest, are wireless cameras that can link to your smart phone, computer, iPad, or whatever device you wish. You can aim the camera anywhere and protect anything.

The cameras transmit images via Wi-Fi to a linked device or DVR or cloud network for storage. Some cameras have recording capabilities and use micro cards to save videos. Once the cards are full, you can either record over them or purchase new cards. You can also save videos on your computer.

Cloud Home Security Cameras

When you want to monitor for home intrusions, keep an eye on your baby and children, and watch the dog, all at the same time, Cloud Home Security Camera or Wi-Fi Cloud Cameras are good choices. They use a Web Portal, rather than a smartphone, computer, laptop, etc., for monitoring, yet you can use those devices to check in through the Web Portal.

This way, you do not have to record anything manually or, in other words, on a DVR or through the camera using replaceable cards

Dummying it All Down

The Cloud

Don’t confuse the cloud with the white puffy things in the sky. The cloud, in terms of Wi-Fi Cameras and other things technology, isn’t a physical entity. It’s actually a network of distinct servers. Some servers run applications while others store data.

If you take a photo with your smartphone and save it to the phone, it’s stored on the phone's internal memory drive. If you then upload the photo to Facebook, you upload it to the cloud.

Web Portal

A Web Portal isn’t a Twilight Zone doorway or Star Trek destination. It’s a specifically designed website that functions as an access point for information. The site usually brings in data from different sources in a constant manner.

A Web Portal can also be thought of as a collection of individualized and labeled content. It helps in search navigation, notification, personalization, and data assimilation.

Put it Together

As mentioned earlier, when you use a Cloud Surveillance Camera and upload what you recorded to your device’s cloud, you do so through the device’s Web Portal, which you access through your smartphone, laptop, computer, or any device.

It’s always going to sound a bit confusing, especially because of the techno language. But, hopefully, this clear things up, at least a little.