| The Grand WiFi Camera Pro Model II Night Vision | | | | a power connection. |
| camera is an extremely versatile system with the | | | | There are six infrared LED's to allow the use of the |
| ability to serve as a webcam, security cam or to | | | | night vision mode. |
| record multimedia content. | | | | The camera currently sells for $136 and ships around |
| The camera is totally wireless and can be used to | | | | the world. The camera operates in Operating |
| monitor or watch a baby from anywhere in the | | | | Systems in several languages, English, Spanish, Dutch, |
| world. It can do the same for a door, or barn or | | | | German, Italian, Russian, French, Japanese and |
| swimming pool, to help deal with children sneaking in | | | | Traditional Chinese while the manual is available in |
| to use private pools and prevent drownings or other | | | | English, German, Dutch and French. |
| injuries. The camera sells with everything needed for | | | | The obvious uses of the camera include serving as a |
| installation to a network and the manual is | | | | movable security camera, as part of a web |
| downloadable from the internet. | | | | conference system to allow the camera to be |
| The camera is compatible with wireless LAN 802.11g | | | | moved easily about a physical conference room to |
| (54Mbps), and also supports 802.11b (11Mbps). The | | | | facilitate the view of people at other sites or even |
| camera can support 640 x 480, 320 x 240, and 176 | | | | as a means of keeping an eye on something from |
| x 144 formats. The camera will also easily switch | | | | far away, from the baby mentioned above to a |
| from USB to IP cam modes with provided cables for | | | | display at a zoo or even a soft drink machine. These |
| IP mode and a button on the camera itself. | | | | cameras can be used to watch outdoors pets at |
| The bundled software allows MPEG 4 capture, | | | | night, or farmers can use this system and a signal |
| automatic replacement of the oldest saved video | | | | repeater to keep watch on barns or fields. For |
| files when space is no longer available and a motion | | | | webconference use, this camera appears desirable |
| detector which can sound an alarm when motion is | | | | due to the ease of moving around a conference |
| detected. | | | | room, allowing the users to switch from one location |
| The camera does have requirements. These are a | | | | to another for the convenience of the off-site |
| router (with DDNS or PPPoE function), 10Base-T | | | | participants. |
| Ethernet or 100Base TX Fast Ethernet, Intel | | | | In theory, a user can even use this camera to create |
| Pentium3 800 MHz, AMD 800 MHz or Faster | | | | a home security system, not up to professional |
| processor, 64M RAM or above, VGA card with 8MB | | | | standards, but certainly capable of seeing what is |
| memory or above, Microsoft DirectX 9 and Internet | | | | stealing the dogfood or knocking over the trash cans |
| Explorer 5.0 or above. The system does not come | | | | at night. It might even be used to see how squirrels |
| with a self contained power source, and thus requires | | | | are breaking into the squirrel-proof bird feeders. |