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Butterfleye – The No False Alarm Monitoring Camera

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7 pointsBrandonNader4 comments

Hi There,

I'd like to present to you Butterfleye and see what you all think. This is an attempt at introducing a whole new way of monitoring and surveillance that is home friendly.

Butterfleye is the only camera that is designed to ignore false alarms and save you time. Normally software is applied to video footage to detect different events such as motion or sound.

Butterfleye automates that process and simply video logs all activity and presents it in a newsfeed on the application on your smartphone.

By applying ABR or Activity Based Recording Butterfleye saves resources like energy, storage, and bandwidth as it does not require to be fully turned on and recording at all times like traditional security and or monitoring cameras.

More importantly it only records events so you do not have to sift through hours of footage to find the few seconds you care about.

Some people compare the Butterfleye camera with other IP cameras and CCTV on the market because it does the same thing, but really it is more about how it does it and why it does it that way.

We wanted to provide a better user experience for those who are interested in video monitoring. What do you all think of the technology behind our product?

Thanks

How is it any better than Canary [0]? The image recognition, of course, but that's something that Canary can also do.

I think the biggest issue with Butterfleye is that it looks like a camera unlike Canary, which is more covert.

[0] http://canary.is/

Well we would not say that we are better than Canary. In fact we think Canary is a great security device. The reason Butterfleye does not look like a hidden camera or discrete is because we wanted it to be more home friendly and serve other purposes than security for example to be able to communicate with your home and people/pets inside your home while you are away.

Really our technology is what makes our solution more advanced and convenient to use.

1. Canary is bound by AC power wires 2. Canary will not work if your Wi-Fi happens to stop working. 3. Canary will not work if you power happens to go out where you are located. 4. Canary will give false alarms as it does not integrate infrared technology into their motion detector. 5. Subscription fees are not liked by their customers and Butterfleye provides at least 24 hours of rolling storage for free. 6. Butterfleye will connect through 3 different protocalls WAN/LAN and direct stream so you can take it camping or in the middle of no where and still work.

On top of all this the way we monitor is more efficient as we don not record empty rooms and take up energy, storage, and bandwidth doing so.

Thank you very much for the details comparison!

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