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Stimulate the viewers’ interest by broadcasting live
video from network weather cameras. Publish live
images and sound of a bustling city, a busy university,
or show off the beauty of a mountain, beach, or forest.
Live video makes a Web site attractive, dynamic, and
interesting and encourages people return to the site.
Creating your own Web pages
Web sites or home pages displaying the images from
network cameras are easily created using HTML (Hyper-
Text Markup Language). A number of commercial soft-
ware applications are designed to make the creation and
publication of HTML pages easier; e.g. MS Frontpage,
Macromedia Dreamweaver, etc.
Uploading images
to a Web site with FTP
If you buy a Web hosting service from your ISP you can
upload images directly from your network camera and
show them to the global Internet community.
The camera automatically transmits a new image
every hour, minute or even second to a host computer
connected to the Internet. The protocol used for uploading
the images from the camera to your ISP is called the File
Transfer Protocol (FTP).
About Web hosting
Several companies offer free Web hosting, but these
hosting services normally limit available Web server
space to typically 10 MB. Many also add some sort of
banner advertising.
Index page examples
The following example explains one type of procedure
for publishing live images from a network camera over
the Internet, using a free Web hosting service called
Angelfi re.com
Broadcasting
Broadcasting images over the Internet is a great way for companies
to promote their services, and to provide customers with up-to-the
minute information. For example, cameras transmitting video of a
ski station show the weather conditions on the slopes. People can
check these by browsing the Internet before leaving home.
Weather city cameras.
Traffi c cameras.
Live events.
Construction sites.
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