{"id":187,"date":"2009-09-23T16:37:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T15:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/?p=187"},"modified":"2009-09-23T16:49:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T15:49:17","slug":"axis-of-openness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/2009\/09\/23\/axis-of-openness\/","title":{"rendered":"Axis of Openness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frustrated with the poor image quality and\/or interfaces of our existing IP cameras, it&#8217;s time to search for better alternatives. New trends in IP camera technology include<a title=\"Megapixel IP cam video clips\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vivotek.com\/support\/mega\/video.php\" target=\"_blank\"> megapixel sensors<\/a>, <a title=\"Wackypedia on h.264\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H.264\/MPEG-4_AVC\" target=\"_blank\">h.264<\/a> video <a title=\"How h.264 works\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcodex.com\/h264overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">encoding<\/a> and, reportedly, <a title=\"IP camera Guru speaks!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcameraguru.com\/ip-camera-software\/solutions-moving-toward-open-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\">open standards<\/a>. There are several interesting open standards cameras on the market already:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The stunningly high resolution <a title=\"GPL camera hardware provider\" href=\"http:\/\/www3.elphel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elphel<\/a> series, which have a <a title=\"Open source cinema\" href=\"http:\/\/cinema.elphel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HD &#8216;film&#8217; maker<\/a>\/<a title=\"Open source Camera Control Software\" href=\"http:\/\/cinema.elphel.com\/software\" target=\"_blank\">developer community<\/a> around <a title=\"Elphel founder hacks own camera\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxfordevices.com\/c\/a\/Linux-For-Devices-Articles\/Open-source-camera-records-geotagged-video-to-SATA-HDD\/\" target=\"_blank\">them.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a title=\"Freescale i.MX27 IP Camera Reference Design\" href=\"http:\/\/dev.emcelettronica.com\/freescale-imx27-ip-camera-reference-design\" target=\"_blank\">Freescale i.MX27<\/a> open <a title=\"freescale.com i.MX27 page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freescale.com\/webapp\/sps\/site\/prod_summary.jsp?code=IMX27_IP_CAMERA&amp;fsrch=1\" target=\"_blank\">reference design<\/a>, again with a <a title=\"Building an ultra-low-cost video camera that offers high dynamic range\" href=\"http:\/\/embedded-systems.com\/design\/218900515?printable=true\" target=\"_blank\">developer<\/a> and <a title=\"i.MX27 user forums\" href=\"http:\/\/ip-cam.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">enthusiast community<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"EDImax IC-1500 IP Camera Wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/ic1500.wikispaces.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Enthusiast-developed projects<\/a> around existing (proprietory interface) <a title=\"Edimax cameras and Linux\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/edimaxipcamerasandlinux\/\" target=\"_blank\">IP cameras<\/a>; Edimax make some <a title=\"Edimax cameras at Use-IP.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.use-ip.co.uk\/edimax.html\" target=\"_blank\">very affordable cameras<\/a>, there are similarities between <a title=\"Open letter to Edimax\" href=\"http:\/\/ic1500.wikispaces.com\/Open+Letter+to+EDImax\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> and the <a title=\"WRT firmware history\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wi-fiplanet.com\/tutorials\/article.php\/3562391\" target=\"_blank\">famous<\/a> Linksys WRT-54g <a title=\"Excerpt from WRT firmware hacking book\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=GBtJdvMeAJQC&amp;pg=PA4&amp;lpg=PA4&amp;dq=wrt-54g+firmware+history&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=FnFBMEHz1E&amp;sig=DVOKhEtPzogARRzVgImF89_ZsUQ&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=wz66StDlO4_a-QaU69HEBQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=3#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">firmware projects<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Axis home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.axis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Axis<\/a>, one of the leading IP video hardware manufacturers, already has a <a title=\"JFFS - developed at Axis\" href=\"http:\/\/developer.axis.com\/old\/software\/jffs\/\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a> of open-standards <a title=\"Axis developer wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/developer.axis.com\/wiki\/doku.php?id=start\" target=\"_blank\">involvement<\/a> and is a part of the <a title=\"Open Network Video Interface Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onvif.org\" target=\"_blank\">ONVIF<\/a> open-interface group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frustrated with the poor image quality and\/or interfaces of our existing IP cameras, it&#8217;s time to search for better alternatives. New trends in IP camera technology include megapixel sensors, h.264 video encoding and, reportedly, open standards. There are several interesting open standards cameras on the market already: The stunningly high resolution Elphel series, which have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[26,3,24,12,54,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.kmi.open.ac.uk\/era\/vowlan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}