Cellular Inc of Englewood, and TVX Inc, Broomfield, both Colorado came together in Dallas yesterday to introduce a means of transmitting video images from a miniature camera to a personal computer using the cellular and terrestrial phone network. TVX, owned 40% each by Cellular and Automated Security Holdings Plc, here, holds the distribution rights for […]
Cellular Inc of Englewood, and TVX Inc, Broomfield, both Colorado came together in Dallas yesterday to introduce a means of transmitting video images from a miniature camera to a personal computer using the cellular and terrestrial phone network. TVX, owned 40% each by Cellular and Automated Security Holdings Plc, here, holds the distribution rights for the TVX camera systems in North, Central and South America. The TVX system is effectively a camera-on-a-chip: camera and lens are integrated onto one chip about the size of a postage stamp, and it is designed to provide visual verification of the cause of an alarm at the time of an incident, and provide a method to distinguish actual emergencies from false alarms. It takes four pictures within five seconds and transmits them in under a minute; it incorporates infra-red strobes, making it effective without light. The images can be viewed by a monitoring station with a standard personal computer and a VGA monitor. No price was given for it.
