I was contacted this week with my work hat on by a new outfit called Jabbakam. Founder James Wickes set up the company to "put power in the hands of everyday people by combining internet camera technology with social networking."
Wickes differentiates his technology from CCTV. He calls it "CCTV for all" or CMTV and explains that this is "socially-organised video surveillance technology over the internet which is more efficient, more reliable and cheaper than traditional CCTV."
Developed following Wickes' personal experience of crime, his system is primarily aimed at the home/neighbourhood security market. However, Wickes points to other uses including monitoring wildlife, vulnerable pets, traffic, weather or remote scientific or industrial outposts.
The £60 camera together with a monthly fee of between £6 and £14 a month gives you motion sensitive equipment that will send you alerts if you want it to and allow you to share your footage as you wish. You can access and control it via mobile and connect to a growing network of Jabbakam customers who help each other out. Some are even starting to build local CMTV networks.
This is an interesting development with fairly self-evident upsides and downsides. Is it a scary spread of the CCTV nation into private hands or a reassuring additional layer of home and neighbourhood safety.
And what of the other uses of the cameras? A HoL SainsJamCam? A flytip watch channel?
The company have offered us two cameras for free to see what we could do with them. Anyone interested?
Website: www.jabbakam.com
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All you need is a vantage point and a computer. Streaming to the web should be cheap to free. If we can get that in place, we could do this with the offer of the cameras.
However, does anyone think there may be any ethical issues to think through?
I went to a lecture a few years ago by someone who had wired up his street in Enfield with cameras and had a monitoring position in his bedroom. He would report any crimes to the police. It sounded very good citizenish until he mentioned he sat up late at night so he could watch the young nurse get safely home
It was at this point that we all began to feel uncomfortable.
Nope. I think it's nasty. Red van man on Green Lanes has not been back since I posted about him. The truck problem is now on Wightman Rd.
The only bit of the passage that could possibly justify CCTV is where it spills out onto Turnpike Lane.
The peasant in me thinks that he'd like to do this but I do try not to be a peasant Hugh...
This is a very bad idea, see: http://www.itpro.co.uk/634201/cctv-service-internet-eyes-forced-int...
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