iCam iPhone App Alerts Man To Burglary In His Own Home
With the help of iCam (webcam video streaming) a home owner out of town, watched as his home was invaded by two intruders who set off the motion alert setting as they threw a brick through a glass door to gain access.
As the desperate home owner watched on his iPhone from 1400 miles away he urgently called 911 and watched as armed police officers arrived on the scene. That’s proof if it was ever needed that iCam really does work and for the cost of $4.99 who can argue. It is possible to even set the software to take actual photographic images when motion triggers the system. This would be great used for evidence if the police can catch them.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
