YC-Funded HighlightCam Makes It Easy To Remotely Watch Babies, Pets And Burglars
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apt-get install motion
Of course, their target market is people who don't want to do any hacking - and there are a ton of those people, so something simple and convenient might do well.
Edit
From their comments above, it looks like it's a little bit more complicated than just capture on motion detect. I think they need a killer demo, as they really need to point out how they're better.
Oh yeah, and we also take audio into account.
Actually, our Justin.tv page demonstrates what processing of high-motion videos looks like (source vids are 5mins long):
http://www.highlightcam.com/justin.tv/
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The About page video is 60 minutes long, with motion for maybe 30 minutes. The highlight video is 50 seconds of the most interesting motion.
http://highlightcam.com/about/
The threshold adjusts automatically, so you'd get just under a minute for both one rabbit twitching its ears, or 30 rabbits getting a bundle of carrots.
Yeah, we should really find a good non-confidential party demo :> Maybe we'll film a party this weekend?
Yes, if this is your first TC article have a party to celebrate that.
Feature requests:
1. You should have a more complex timeline control or at least annotate the video with the time you're currently looking at. I need to know when the highlights are happening (when did my baby cry, is my baby crying at some regular interval, etc.)
2. There should be some visual cue showing the switch from one continuous segment to the next. You could potentially incorporate this as part of the fix for 1..
(My apologies if these already exist; I didn't see them in the demo video.)
The point is to show only the important changes in the surveillance video. And it is right to target market for babies, pets and burglars watch.
I asked my friends 3 years ago when I saw a Panasonic internet surveillance cam (though the price of cam then was around $200) and they though it would be great to have this type of service to watch kids and pets at home when they are at work. And I thought the whole video has to be trimmed to only interesting part. And I thought that can be a good way to team it with my uncle's surveillance camera manufacturing business. They are good in hardware but they need some killer apps to expand demand for surveillance camera in consumer market.
But one of my friend said that people already did that. I just can't find it cheap enough for consumers. So I decided to work on other products.
I get a lesson from Anateus: I need to trust my own instinct more than advices from peers.
Demo: put a camera on a donation plate and pick out the non-stereotypical motion of someone removing rather than adding to it.