Security and Surveillance Systems have always been demand in the industrial and home environment. The cameras, which human eyes are able to collect all visual information from the environment. Extensions necessary and highly desirable in these systems, and that few possess, are integration and interconnection with other systems, video surveillance and display all the information on a mobile device, which lately is becoming [...]

Two weeks ago, I have received the new fashion gadget of Microsoft: the kinect sensor. Thanks for the community (libfreenect), this sensor designed for Xbox can be used in GNU/Linux systems. Lately I have the need of integrate anything with Android mobile (is it because I have over 3 years programming with Android?) So, I couldn’t pass up this opportunity! Using [...]

Today, it seem impossible that we can’t control anything from our mobile device. I’m using JDEROBOT software to create a video-surveillance system based in software libre and low cost hardware. A good feature for this system is the total control from the mobile device. In this case, we use a Android device (HTC Magic) and [...]