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Regardless of the physical size of your place of business - from a sprawling automobile dealership to a tiny bodega - you can keep an eye
on it from anywhere in the wired world, twenty-four seven.
Internet technology, combined with the ever expanding development of network cameras and web-cams, makes this both easy to accomplish and
affordable.
The most basic level would be a $20 Web camera hooked up to your computer which, at 60-second intervals, would upload snapshots to your
Web site. The snapshots would also be saved to the hard disk ... and that could provide a time- and date-stamped photographic record should
it ever be needed.
The most sophisticated level would include multiple network cameras that could be viewed live and controlled (pan, tilt, and zoom) from
anywhere you happen to be on the planet.
The high-end net-cams include the following features: a 25x optical zoom; the ability to upload snapshots to a Web site; record the video
stream to a hard disk or VCR; send email with an attached photo; motion detection; and alarm triggering. They can also run on wired or
wireless networks.
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