During the year the needs we may have to monitor our home from a distance may not become so evident. The truth is that there are many solutions that we find in the market and that they come to us from all kinds of companies that sell us very simple systems, such as a camera connected to our WiFi network or others that offer us complex detection and surveillance systems in exchange for a monthly subscription to their rates.
Within this field there are many options although, if what you really like is power 'tinker'with the systems you can find much simpler and more attractive options that you can literally make yourself. Within this field, for example, we can talk about setting up a system made up of a small camera connected directly to a Raspberry Pi or Arduino type controller or carrying out a small, even simpler job that you will surely like.
During the first four months of the year there have been almost 40.000 robberies in Spain
According to studies published by the Ministry of the Interior, The truth is that only in the first four months of 2017 in Spain, nothing less than 39.651 robberies with force in homes, establishments and other facilities. A figure that makes us think very seriously about having a system that, at least, allows us to know if someone has entered our house.
To the above figures, remind you that we are talking about data for the first four months of 2017, we must add that normally at this time, and even more so during the month of August, thefts can increase considerably in terms of the number of those that are produced, something that can make us lose sleep or not, depending on whether we have any way of knowing at any time what is happening in our house.
There are many possibilities to monitor the state of your home, although the ones that I propose will cost you less than 3 euros
As we said at the beginning of this post, I'm not going to talk to you about the possibility of hiring some kind of security Service, since this, in addition to being the best option, undoubtedly due to their professionalism, has a cost in terms of installation and monthly subscription that in many cases can be too high for what we really want. Due to this, and especially to the fact that personally I usually like to bet on the work done by myself, today I want to present you some applications that can be more than attractive. A formula that prevents you from spending a lot of money or having to have advanced knowledge of networks and programming.
The most economical solution in this regard is to bet on all those applications for smartphones or tablets with which you can achieve turn these devices into an interesting surveillance camera for your home. As for possible applications, the truth is that today there are many, for example I can think of names such as iVideon, IP Webcam and even iVMS-4500. The most interesting thing is that some of them can transform your old mobile into a real-time video circuit capable of transmitting audio and even detecting movement.
There are many options available, although everything will depend on the money you want to spend
Summarizing all this a bit, what it is about is to use a old mobile phone that you have at home And that you no longer use to take advantage of the fact that we can leave it, with the charger plugged in, in an area where your camera can record an entire stay. Once we have located this location we just have to install one of the applications previous ones, or another that may seem more interesting, both on this phone and the one that will go with you on vacation so that one of them will act as a camera while the other will receive and allow you to reproduce the images wherever you are and even, thank you to their sensors, they can send notifications in case of detecting some type of movement.
Without a doubt, this can be one of the cheapest and most interesting solutions you can find to keep an eye on your home during your vacation. As a final detail, tell you that this is not the only one since you could even bet on more complex and sophisticated systems such as those in which you acquire a camera specially developed to carry out this type of work which, in turn, usually come with sophisticated applications that are very easy to configure and launch.