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Chapter 1
Introduction
This Chapter provides details of the Internet Camera's features, components
and capabilities.
Overview
The Internet Camera – ICA-550W, ICA-150 and ICA-150W has an Integrated Microcomputer
and a high quality CMOS digital-Image-Sensor, enabling it to display high quality live
streaming video over your wired LAN, the Internet, and for the Internet Camera, an 802.11g
Wireless LAN.
Using enhanced MPEG-4 technologies, the Internet Camera is able to stream high quality
video and audio directly to your PC. The high compression capabilities of MPEG-4 reduce
network bandwidth requirements to amazingly low levels.
A convenient and user-friendly Windows program is provided for both viewing and recording
video. If necessary, you can even view video using your Web Browser, on a variety of software
platforms.
Figure 1: Internet Camera
ICA-550W is a P/T Wireless Camera, ICA-150 is PoE IP Camera and ICA-150W is the fixed
Lens Wireless Camera. In the following section, unless specified, The term “Internet Camera”
will means any of ICA-550W, ICA-150 or ICA-150W.
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