Logitech Alert Home Security Systems

Logitech Alert is a complete video security system that features a smart camera with a 130-degree, wide-angle lens and infrared night vision capability. Its image quality, while not high definition, is still crisp and clear. The camera communicates with the Logitech Alert software’s base receiver (which plugs into your network router) via the HomePlug powerline standard that communicates over home wiring instead of a standard Wi-Fi signal. This allows for camera placement practically anywhere in the house, even in spots where Wi-Fi signals are non-existent.

Camera data feeds into Logitech’s Alert Commander software, which lets you configure email alerts, update camera firmware, set motion-detection zones and camera zoom, and adjust image parameters. Fortunately, once the cameras and email alerts are configured using a PC with Windows XP or higher (unfortunately, there’s no Mac version), you no longer need to have the Windows computer running for the Logitech Alert capture and notification service to do its duty.

The Alert System works with the Logitech Alert app (free, app2.me/5242). Logitech offers a Web and Mobile Commander subscription service for $79.95 a year that extends the ability to review video directly on the iPhone or iPad, and also set email notifications and alerts using your iOS device, removing any further need to use Alert Commander on a Windows PC.

Source : iPhone Life March-April 2013