
Colour cameras broadcast a colorful picture, but have troubles broadcasting night panoramas with poor illumination. IP-cameras are also divided into black-and-white and colour. IP cameras designed for video surveillance are divided into outdoor (external surveillance) and indoor (internal surveillance). The primary purpose of IP cameras is the protection and observation of objects. Since then, much time has passed, but IP camera is still one of the best devices for video surveillance. Thus, those wishing to get a hot drink could control the level of coffee machine’s fullness throughout the day, without wasting time on moving from floor to floor. Running the application on their computer, laboratory staff could connect to the server and obtain an image of the coffee maker. The computer played the role of IP server with installed software. They connected a camera aimed at the coffee machine to one of the computers. In order to somehow ease their plight, scientists came up with a device through which they can control the level of coffee maker’s fullness. The employees had to constantly go for coffee to the lower floor, but those trips weren’t always successful – more nimble colleagues used to drink all the hot drink, leaving a coffee machine completely empty.

There was a single coffee maker for 20 people, which, of course, was not enough for the whole team. Back in the 90s in one of the Cambridge computer labs there worked a group of scientists. Many of you may be surprised by the fact that the history of IP cameras is related to a coffee maker.

Each camera has an IP network interface and, often, an embedded web server. The live feed will be displayed mirrored, thus, from the Camera Configuration>Image>Display Settings>Video Adjustment, and choose the Left/Right option form Mirror drop-down-list.IP camera is a network device the main function of which is to transmit video images in a digital format over TCP/IP networks, e.g. Open Skype, go to Options->General>Video Settings, and form the “Select webcam” drop-down list select MJPEG Camera.For Hikvision R2 cameras the working url looks like “ The user credentials are required, and if you do not know the camera resolution, click Autodetect button.

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This small software takes a live stream from an IP camera and emulates it as web camera.
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