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Is Big Brother Watching You? Or Are You Watching Big Brother?
By Bob Marles
Isn¡¯t technology a wonderful thing? I thought this as I
received the text to my mobile phone telling me that my
home security camera had detected movement.
Someone or something was where they shouldn¡¯t be at
the rear of my house and I was 2000 miles away on
vacation ¨C yet I still knew they were there. Fortunately
the text wasn't followed up by another from one of the
sensors on my windows telling me that someone was
breaking in and it was urgent I did something about it.
A quick call to my neighbour and the drama was over,
must have been that big old moggy over the back on his
nightly prowl.
Just imagine the peace of mind knowing that my castle
was safe and was being looked over by technology and
that my worldly possessions weren¡¯t strewn all over the
back yard as some bad people made their hurried get-
away and it was all down to technology.
Just a month earlier I had installed an add-on to my
home security system that allowed me to monitor the
state of various things around my home from anywhere
in the world, either over the world wide web or by alert to
my mobile phone. Even better still, I can logon to the
internet in some friendly internet caf¨¦, wherever I am,
and set things up. I can setup lights to come
on and off at will, I can turn the central
heating on for a snug and warm return, I can
even make a cup of tea (should any burglar
want one whilst the police arrive) by controlling
my trusty tea maker and all from anywhere in
the world!
I am sure I am not breaking new ground here,
this is not technology to revolutionise space
travel or to solve the African drought problem
but it certainly answers a need for me, the
peace and mind of knowing my possessions are
safe.
I got the idea to monitor my home remotely
when, in the course of my work, I came across
a little device that monitors anything from
anywhere.
That's probably a sweeping statement and needs to be
qualified slightly, it might struggle to monitor wind speed
on Mars and send the results to Venus but you know
what I mean.
When I came across it first, it was monitoring a whole
host of things in remote water pumping stations,
interesting things like bearing vibration and motor
temperature, water leaks and intruder alarm. It was
sending information back to a central location in
collaboration with dozens of it's brothers and sisters in
their remote pumping stations, all sending back
information to the one central location ¨C fantastic!
Of course it was the intruder alarm bit that sparked my
imagination (I don't have many vibrating bearings in my
home). As I researched into it further I found that this
remarkable little device (or one of its kinfolk) really could
monitor ANYTHING and send the information
ANYWHERE. I found that this technology was in use in
areas that I had never imagined could benefit from
remote monitoring or control, and for a variety of
reasons. Reasons ranging from holding down costs to
just plain peace of mind. It is used in healthcare to
monitor vaccine temperatures in doctors surgeries,
environmental monitoring in computer rooms, monitoring
experiments in laboratories, in fact it's uses are limited
only by your imagination, if you've ever wanted to keep
and eye on whats going on with ANYTHING from
ANYWHERE in the world, you can.
So you see, in my case, in my humble ¡°home security¡±
application of this wonderful technology, Big Brother IS
watching and I AM Big Brother, watching over my home
wherever I am, give it a try, I can recommend the peace
of mind.
About the Author
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