Calahonda-CAM is a MOBOTIX webcam with it
own IP and it delivers every minute a new picture without using a PC direct to the
web server of the homepage.
The
German company
MOBOTIX is a specialist for object-watching cameras for outdoor- and
indoor using. But “webcam” is a wrong concept actual for this appliance. Finally,
a complete calculator with Linux operating system is in this appliance besides
the camera, an automatic network-connection and an ISDN modem as well.
Especially the reliability has already proven a virtually same webcam through it
that it on summit-platform
of the Zugspitze (highest mountain in
Calahonda-CAM also now is absolutely undisturbed
since
The
built-in motion detector starts a picture-record for a predefined span just as
a conspicuous movement-event appears. That can be also a smoke-cloud because of
a fire, that appears suddenly in the visual field of
the camera and is carried away by the wind.
The, in
that moment selected picture-format of Calahonda-CAM has
640 x 480 pixels and the colour resolution is 64.000. It is working around the
clock continuously and delivers also a sharp colour-night-picture, every
minute.
Calahonda-CAM is
conceived only as a solely weather-camera, therefore it shows mainly the sky,
because the observer should see as the weather looks exactly in Calahonda and
surroundings in live time. The cloud form, if clouds exist at all, and the cloud animation are an essential statement of
an efficient weather-station. To be able to pivot the camera has not been
realized in order to protect the private life of the neighbouring
residential-areas.
The
facing is direction South-South-West
(210°) across the Alborán sea
and can show - with clear air - also the camel-hump-rocks of Céuta and the rock
of
Calahonda-CAM can be switched to a really live-picture-camera in future, if there will be once a faster DSL-access here in the region for Calahonda, i.e. each visible object-movement is transferred also on the homepage in real-time.