May 30 2007: Weather-Loop
Video added to Web Page. This is an experimental flash
application that buffers the last 40 images received from the video
camera, and plays them back in a time lapse manner (similar to a
weather loop). The sequence of images is 'played' every time a
new image comes in. A new video image is uploaded every 2-5
seconds, so you should see about 3-4 minutes of action. Since the
video camera is inside the same housing that the digital camera is in,
you will often see the camera 'move' around, at various zoom values.
For example, when a movie is made, the video
camera is zoomed in all the way. If a digital shot is done next,
the camera housing will be repositioned for the digital camera, and
the video camera may remained zoomed in all the way, so all you may
see are waves in the middle of the ocean. NOT
WORKING?? If the image has not updated in the
last minute, try refreshing your browser
(F5), and if it still doesn't update, it means for some reason, new
images are not being uploaded form the camera station....could be
maintenance, or a bug in the program, which should fix itself within
the hour ( a watchdog circuit will reboot the system).
About this Image Monitoring Station: This station is located on top of
the Life Guard Hut at Jensen Beach, just north of the Holiday Inn near
Stuart, Fl in Martin County (central Florida on the east coast). It
consists of an Olympus SP500, 6 Mega Pixel digital camera controlled by
custom software running under Windows XP. In addition, there is a
Sony Block low light level, low noise video camera with integrated 18x
optical zoom. Both cameras are placed inside an
environmentally protected housing on top of a precision pan/tilt unit made
by Conway. A water pump, reservoir and windshield wiper system clean the
glass under program control. The software controls many functions
including pan/tilt positioning, camera zoom, imaging stitching, and
uploads images and complete web pages to various ftp sites...all under
automatically and unattended. For more information, see
Erdman Video Systems.
Difficulty viewing this page? All the
images on this page should be able to be viewed easily, but if you can't
see them, give us a call (305 252 9560) or email us at
evs_staff@video-monitoring.com. There are links on this page to
slideshows and short video clips, for which additional programs may have
to be installed. We use 2 types of slideshows. For the smaller
images we use Flash, a product from the company Adobe, and you can go to
their site at www.adobe.com and find
the Flash Player and install it for free. The slideshow used for the
large panoramic view uses Java. If you can't see it, you can go to
www.java.com and download and install
their player. For Internet Explorer, you may have to change some
configuration settings to allow Java to run. You do this by going to
the menu choice at the top: Tools : Options : Advanced, and scroll down to
the check box(es) mentioning Java, and check them to enable them.
Call us or email us at the above numbers/address if you need further
assistance.
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