Client's Research Webcams

Erdman Video Systems has years of experience working with science and research projects and has developed strategies, hardware, and software tools specifically for these goals. Rain gauges, temperature sensors, and motion sensors are just a few of the sensors we have interfaced our imaging systems.

Avalanche Monitoring	Air Quality Studies	Meteorology

There are a number of features that we designed into our software that will benefit research projects:

Redundant Data Archiving: Our software archives all the pictures locally with settable restrictions on archive size. We can also archive across your network or to any ftp site.

Image Registration and Rectification: Rectification shows an over head view for calculating exact size and coordinates of events and displaying geographically referenced locations.

Motion Detected Image Snap & Record: With the live video based systems, video recording can be triggered via through the lens motion detection. 16 sector grid regions can all have different levels of sensitivity. Pre and post trigger recording time is also settable.

VMView Live Video Web Program: This is an activeX based web application to watch live video. It features up to 4 unique lines of video, password protection, user chat, and basic camera settings. This application is included with the live video systems.

VMView Live Control Web Program: This is a fully featured activeX based live video web control program. It affords all the features of the basic and adds pan, tilt, and zoom control; digital image snap; local archiving; and preset locations. This application is included with the live video pan and tilt systems.

High Resolution Time Lapse Creation: Time-lapse videos can be made automatically through software. The resolution, interval, and FPS are all settable parameters.

Flash Slideshow: The flash based web slideshow comes free with every system and can easily integrate onto your website. It features smooth image playback, calender based archives, and thumbnail previews.

Solar Power "Sleep" Mode: Low power sleep mode puts our system in a micro power state. This allows smaller batteries and solar panels when using our system in a remote locaton. Sleep mode can be used in between picture taking at settable intervals.

Fail-safe Watchdog Firmware: Our special watchdog firmware will watch for system failure and reboot the machine. This ensures fail-safe operation for mission critical projects.

Real-time Weather Data: Real-time weather data can be integrated onto your website via a weather station add-on. Dials and graphs update in realtime via animated .gif images.