Background: Had seen web cam based services in US day cares/play schools many years ago for parents to keep an eye for their kids. Today's Eco times has a watch-your-ward type article on page 22.
Taking off on that, The project is to, provide an low cost yet effective infrastructure for such a service which schools can implement without increasing the fees 5x times.
The concept would be.. IP based camera linked to internet service. uplinks to a remote server. Video stream of reasonable picture quality.
Subscribers can log in where they can watch their child's webcam. But they should pay for the use on a bandwidth usage basis.
Option I IP camera connected to a ADSL router running dynadns. Total cost IP camera 5.5 K, Router 2k. No Authentication or accounting.
Option II PC + Web camera + ADSL router. You can connect multiple camera to PC. Total cost make your guess. Authentication or accounting possible.
BTW forget video, but pictures OK.
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Mukund Deshmukh. Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd 10/1, IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur-440022, INDIA. Cell +919422113746