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Monitoring and sensor equipment and systems
News Release from: AKCP | Subject: Probe 8 products
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 02 February 2007
Environment and security monitoring with
Linux
AKCP has announced a major free software upgrade to all AKCP Linux-based products, cameraProbe8, sensorProbe8Linux, sensorProbe8Linux-X20, sensorProbe8Linux-X60.
AKCP, provider of environment and security monitoring, announced a major free software upgrade to all AKCP Linux-based products, cameraProbe8, sensorProbe8Linux, sensorProbe8Linux-X20, sensorProbe8Linux-X60 AKCP enhances their visual monitoring capabilities by adding recording to their camera interface, all video captured by any of the camera's attached to an AKCP Linux-based product can now be recorded to time-stamped, rotating AVI files on a remote PC by a simple click on the Record button
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 2 Apr 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Other important additions and enhancements are greatly increased limits on the number of email-addresses and phone-numbers available in the Notification Matrix; automatic video signal detection; 180 degree picture rotation; a new easy to use slider bar to control the thermostat; Dial-Up PPP has been enhanced with PAP Authentication and can now be used over a GPRS connection.
Backing up your device's configuration has been made easier by adding buttons to the web interface to backup and restore your configuration using a file on a remote server.
AKCP's Linux devices will automatically send a shutdown message to your Linux or Windows based servers - so if there is a power outage, for example, you can rest assured that your servers will be safely and automatically shut down before your UPS runs out.
The software is available for free via a firmware update to existing AKCP customers, and is standard for all new sales.
The cameraProbe8 and sensorProbe8Linux are environmental and security monitoring devices.
The cameraProbe8 integrates a SONY CCD camera which is mounted on a precision stepper motor with the ability to pan and tilt.
Both systems support connection with external security cameras.
They include full Linux.
Hardware boasts a 32-bit ARM processor, 128 Megabytes of Flash and 64 Megabytes of SDRAM along with a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet and 2 serial ports.
Software utilities include many applications; such as Apache web server, Bash, Perl, Vi, Telnet, PHP, Email, Nagios, and RRDTool, Video Conferencing.
The cameraProbe8 and sensorProbe8Linux supports full SNMP functionality, relying on our 25 years of SNMP monitoring experience.
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