wireless camera

[pallen]

Greetings Wireworkers,

I'm looking for a wireless camera that would "play nice" with LabVIEW.  

The application is for 1 to 4 cameras that would upload images to a webserver every 10 to 30 seconds. (Or so)   Eventually I'd love to have wireless control of Pan, Tilt and maybe even zoom.  But for now I'd be happy just to capture the images and possibly add code to detect "changes" in the image.  (IE, someone or something in the image that shouldn't be there)

I've done some LabVIEW vision work Fire-i cameras and would love to find either a similar wireless camera, or possibly some way of transmitting data from the Firewire cameras wirelessly.   

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Hi Pallen:

Haven't used them, just know of them. Pretty cheap and don't know what quality of images you need, but it may give you some ideas. Funny how they always show bare midriffs throughout their site.

http://www.x10.com/promotions/xx17a_ed_4cwenw_0111_sweet.html

[pallen]

*Chuckle*  Nice mid riff!

Thanks for the link.  I didn't know that the x10 cameras were compatible with LabVIEW.  Are there drivers for it, or would it work with the USB VFW driver?

[T-Route]

Hello Pallen,

As of right now National Instruments does not have any drivers or support for wireless cameras developed.  Any USB webcam should work as long as it is DirectShow compatible.  There is a good thread HERE that has some useful links to 3rd party VI's that might allow you to capture from a different type of camera that we do not support.  Our NI IMAQ driver is developed for use with NI Frame Grabbers and our NI IMAQdx (1394) driver is used to interface with any DCAM complaint 1394 or GigE camera. I hope this information helps. 

Regards,
Mark T
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[AdamB]

HI there,

I see no reason why a Gig-E camera wouldn't work.  You would need a router on either end of the system (one near the camera and one in the target machine).  As long as the router was fulkly Gb/s compatable and supported Jumbo Packets, you could alwyas y=use one of those?

AdamB

[JohannS]

Pallen

Is wireless a hard requirement or would you consider a cabled solution?

With a cabled solution you could consider either a copper or fibre optic hub that would work with your existing hardware and software. With a hub solution you could run up to 100m between your computer and your camera.

With GigE Vision cameras, you would not require the hub, as you could directly connect the camera to your computer over a 100m copper cable.

Hope this helps,

JohannS