Using a mobile phone camera as a stroke detector

Today we will find another use of modern cell phone with an integrated camera. For example, learn how to use it as a mobile security device using J2ME-applications MotionCam from companies Skymetric.

Just to emphasize the sad fact that the program is paid - the developer seeks for her $ 14, but you can kind of a trial until it is trimmed to its functionality that allows even the not unsophisticated mortal look at least one eye in the "Settings" menu. Therefore, we will build his account on the basis of public information on the website Skymetric well as impressions from the use of accessible version of Java-MIDlet.

Creators MotionCam somehow limited to phone a pair of companies - Nokia and Sony Ericsson. Others, apparently, out of their sight. It's a pity. Recall that the size of the application is small and is only 20 KB.

Before starting the main program recommended time to allow her to access the phone's camera without the restrictions on every (if not non-stop pop-up dialog box on the application encroachment on the hardware resources of a mobile phone you just torment). Something we did not seem to digress from the main features of the program under consideration today. So, what has been so blah blah MotionCam, that it so easily allowed to be used in security purpose?

In the lesson is simple: running Java-midlet via the built-in cell phone cameras vigilantly monitors all movements in the territory entrusted to him (or rather of the district that caters to the lens). In case if someone is, where-is somehow manages to sneak past, it will be full MotionCam fotodose this walking suspicious object. In other words, any progress will be recorded in the phone memory as individual photos.

Unfortunately, as we have said, in the settings menu without registration does not fall, so that still manages this program in addition to saving images, you can not. But overall, it would be great to complement this tiny protective software system the ability to SMS notifications or, better, sending MMS-messages with embedded images in the set.

Well, but in conclusion, let's dream up a little and try to find a bunch of "Cell + MotionCam" practical application.

Motorists, for example, iron chippings which sleeps under the windows, can "target" phone to the car parking zone, but in the morning to check the pics who hurt native "swallow" (God forbid, of course). Every office employee, casually leaving his cell, can little spy (of course, at a certain skill) for their colleagues. For example, for a cute secretary.

Here are here are allowed to do exercises using MotionCam. What is there to conceal the fall, cons in the proposed solutions - a lot, but pros will agree, is still to eat.