Access Controller and Camera Vision - Video Surveillance Software for Windows

IPCOMServer
$9.95 - TIGME.COM

IPCOMServer is a cheap and easy solution to control RS-232 devices without the use of expensive router products like a Cisco® 2511 Terminal server. The IPCOMServer acts as a Telnet server, connecting the user directly to a chosen COM port. IPCOMServer can be connected to by either using a Telnet program or a custom written Telnet Client. A Telnet program will provide the user with a text interface to interrogate the attached RS-232 device. The reason why IPCOMServer was developed was to enable a user to control custom built electronic equipment, or to access remote control test equipment like, TTC Fireberd 4000® or Protocol Analyzers etc.

IPCOMServer acts as a virtual connection between a TCP/IP port or socket and a personal computers Serial/COM port. When a Telnet program or client connects to IPCOMServer, it will be connected directly to the serial port specified in the Setup of IPCOMServer. Strings of data or commands that are generated at the Client will be transported across the TCP/IP network to the Host. At the host the incoming commands are relayed to the serial port. The device attached to the host will react on the commands by sending replies back to the host, which are then relayed back the client. The replies can be used to display either text form or to update a graphical user interface (GUI). See the application notes for more information.

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Catalog Hot Files Pro
$19.95 - Drive Software Company

Catalog Hot Files Pro is a utility that generally accelerates your normal computer workflow. Your work in any Windows application can be greatly accelerated if you smartly use this utility. Besides this, Catalog Hot Files Pro can also be used to easily access some typical Windows features. Commands include: control CD-ROM, Winamp, run applications/folders/documents/web pages, audio mixer controllers, dial-up connections, hibernate, stand by, log off, shut down the system, paste text, toggle any window's "always on top" status etc.

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Fastream IQ Reverse Proxy
$275 - Fastream Technologies

Secure your web server with cache, load-balancing, bw limits, configurable NTLM/HTML/HTTP/1.1-digest/basic authentication and 256-bit industry strength SSL/TLS encryption, authentication, bandwidth limiting and load balancing with failover protection as well as GZip acceleration and link translator, anti hot-linking and only the best architectural design and highest performance and security for the Windows platform by utilizing multiple CPUs/CPU-core

Features:

Memory cache implemented for 1Gbps performance with single (core) 32-bit Pentium/Athlon/Duo Core 2

256-bit SSL/TLS accelerator with support for OpenSSL hardware cards and self-signed certificate creation

Load balancing in URL-aware fashion: point each domain/path to different/same target LAN server/port

Anti hot-linking feature enables webmasters to control other sites linking to their multimedia content--prevents leeching of bandwidth

URL Rewrite with regular expressions provides a descent way to simplify links for search engines and other sites

Bandwidth limiting per URL rule per IP/port

GZip compression accelerator with configurable compression rates for each object extension

Failover protection with both ICMP and HTTP server validation

Cookies created make session persistence possible among client-to-target-server matching

Filter/pass firewall: Filter with respect to IP, reverse DNS and even client IP country

Client connections pooled with dynamic load determination algorithm

High performance on-the-fly HTML absolute link transformer

DynDNS.org and No-IP.com dynamic DNS auto updater client built-in

User-friendly HTTP/XML controller interface for remote admin access

HTTP/1.1 basic and digest authorization with users definable per URL rule

Supports W3C Extended Log Format with selectable fields and NFServer v2 screen and file logging--configurations setable in URL granularity

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Advanced TCP Logger
$17 - KMiNT21 Software

This program is a simple proxy server(port-mapper). It is an ideal tool for monitoring any network software or for researching network protocols. Log files with all traffic that has passed through this program are organized in a nice manner and can be saved in a separate folder. What is the purpose of this program? When can this program be used? When can you needed it? + If you want a simple proxy server (e.g. port mapper, port redirector). + It you want to count traffic. + If you want to save all the traffic packets in files, which you might want to analyze later. + If you want to study a format of network packages(protocols) used in any unknown programs. + If you are the developer of the network equipment or software and you have to solve problems from area "Embedded-Ethernet", "microWEB".I.e. generally IP-access to devices based on microcontrollers. + If you want to see "live" activity of the network protocols (e.g.: pop3, smtp, http, icq, irc). + You want to disassemble activity of scripts of any web-site and introduce automation into operations.

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AS FAN WIN32 DLL
$80 - AS Computer Software

If you ever want to have many deferent functions just in one library.funtctions you love and hate, now you have it. What does it means?Many times you seen them, now you can use them. If you use C/C++,VB,Delphi,XBASE++ you can use ASFAN functions. We program them very carefully, so there is minimum parameters and most of them are of type LONG, INT, LPCSTR and LPSTR, and names are full descriptive. Serial communication is here, to support some basic communication with some devices connected to serial ports. If you want some cool effect like transparent window, transition, now you get it.Your application can set video mode, test and retrieve it. Controlling desktop including hiding desktop icons, START button, system clock and task bar if you need that. Shutting, rebooting, logoff from computer, monitor turn off, power down, or hibernate is also supported. Prevent screensaver from starting. Setting priority for your application or to part of it, so you can be sure that computer speed is all used. Blocking input to window if you like, when you don't want to allowed user to interrupt execution with keyboard or mouse activity.
If you need information for installed HDD you can get model,serial number and controller revision number for all installed IDE disks ), and you don't have to deal with privilege stuff.
If from any reason you want to know did computer is running in SAFE mode, or have debugger started, or debugging version of windows is installed, now you can detect it. If you need you can create new desktop and run extern application in it alone, and after that move back. Play system sounds, detect status of your window (is iconic, maximized, normal).Set and lock foreground window, draw control ..We use only win32 API and provide easy access for your application.That's why this library is so small in size but great in action.Check a list off functions, maybe you will find what you are looking for.In DEMO you will see only 20 in action of 100.

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Camera Vision - video surveillance
$0 - vdocapture.com

Camera Vision - video surveillance on C
IP CAMERA Video Server
LINDY Internet Video Server
DIGITAL VIDEO SERVER CAN COLLECT VIDEO FROM FOUR ANALOG INPUTS
Canon VB-150 Network Video Camera Server
4XEM Four Channel MJPEG IP Network Video Server Model IPVS4
4XEM IPVS1E 704x480 MAX Resolution RJ45 Single Channel MPEG-4 IP Network Video
Lorex Network Video Server and PTZ Camera
IP Video Router/TLR-DVR Controller


Introduction
Looking at today's tendency of video surveillance systems it can be easily noticed that popularity of IP based solutions is growing really fast. There are quite a lot of manufacturers, who provides great range of IP video cameras and video servers, which are intent to serve in a professional IP-enabled video surveillance system. More of it, many companies provides solutions aimed to convert current CCTV video surveillance systems to IP based systems, keeping current equipment and infrastructure. In addition to these companies, who provides not only hardware solutions, but software as well, there are a lot of companies, who focuses on software part of IP video surveillance systems mostly, providing complete solutions as for small or enterprise business, as for personal use.

In the article I would like to share some of my experience in working with different IP video cameras and video servers from different manufacturers. The provided information is related mostly to accessing these cameras from your own application, which may be a simple application for your personal needs or which may be something more sophisticated and even close to some sort of video surveillance application.

As a demo application to the article I am providing a C# application, which allows as single camera viewing as multiple cameras viewing simultaneously. The application allows simultaneous view of not only several cameras from a single video server, but allows to view many different cameras even of different manufacturers at a time.

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