Cloud security cameras

If you are finding something to help you keep track of everything at home from your kids in their room to your pets playing outside while you are not at home, cloud security cameras are what you actually need.

These types of cameras provide users with more flexibility in comparison with your original webcams as they take advantage of a Web portal, instead of a laptop or personal computer, which gives you a chance to check in from any location by even with your smart phone only.

However, there are many things to take into consideration. You should opt for a camera that provide not only images but also very clear pictures of your home because the quality of what you see can be really terrible due to the Wi-Fi connection or the public Internet connectivity, even when you are utilizing the #3G cellular data network.

1. Facts and characteristics

Nowadays, most of cameras on the market provide you with wireless connection through your home router. In this case, you can use the Logitech 750n which is able to utilize the electrical wiring in your home to deliver the signal from cloud security cameras to your device which is also connected to your router. Although you may see many types of cameras demand on a personal laptop for configuration at the first time of being used, all of them provide you will web portal so that you can receive the signal regardless of any location as well as make configuration from your device thanks to a web browser.

Moreover, all of those cloud based security cameras are compatible with mobiles phones on both Android and IOS operating systems. There are various applications which are able to show you live video streaming and allow you to capture the screenshots of what you are seeing regardless of anytime and anywhere.

Cloud security cameras also have hardware for you to put the camera on either a wall or ceiling. All of them also offer you night vision as either a choice or a standard. With this function, you are able to view clearly what is occurring in the evening in dark rooms.

What is more, many types of cameras provide a web portal to help you monitor your home more easily like a personal TV control service. And some cloud security cameras providers bring about a function which allows you to see a lot of different camera streams at a same time on only one single screen. But you need to consider that while you can put a lot of cloud security cameras inside your home, that can slow down the quality of a wireless router, which then  leads to the decrease in the performance of the cameras.

Some cameras will be able to record videos and then save them by a microSD card which is wonderful to view the history of the camera videos, while some of them enable you to see images on the hard drive of the computer which operates the control software of the cloud security cameras provider.

Last but not least, there are some devices allowing you to keep pictures within the cloud storage space. Although many providers demand on a monthly subscription service if you want to have a storage space on the web portals, Samsung lets you upload video clips as well as pictures through its camera named Smart Cam, directly to your You Tube account.

In terms of security, all cloud security cameras demand you to create a user account name with a password, and even an extra password to have approach to each device.