AVAAK Vue Personal Video Network [FrameMesh Technology, Wireless Video Cameras Transmit to Secure Gateway, Record & View From Your Browser, Surveillance Made Easy]

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Have you ever wanted to install your very own video surveillance system in your home? Do you have voyeuristic tendencies? If you’ve answered yes to one or both of these questions, we have the perfect gadget for you. The latest product from AVAAK, the Vue Personal Video Network, is a plug-and-play video network system that let’s you monitor the goings-on in your home (or anywhere else you find yourself being paranoid about) without the hassles of wiring and bulky installations.

The Vue Personal Video Network is touted as a wireless video surveillance system for keeping tabs on kids, pets, and old people. Although, given the proclivity for mischief that most people tend to have, I have no doubts that it will find its way into some less than appropriate applications. The system is really a combination of three components, two wireless video cameras with peel and stick magnetic mounts, a wireless gateway that plugs into your router or DSL/cable modem, and the my.Vuezone.com website interface.

The Vue wireless cameras are pretty petite (about 3x1x2-in) and feature a low-power consumption design that is supposed to give you up to a year of operation from a single CR123 Li-ion photo battery. They shoot video in Flash Live Video (FLV) format with a max resolution of 640×480 and will also snap still JPG images of the same quality. The backbone of the system is something called FrameMesh technology, a redundant, packet self-correction networking protocol that was apparently developed for the defense department. Now doesn’t that make it seem so family-friendly? According to AVAAK, it’s this technology that enables streaming live video using wireless transmission technology and battery-powered cameras.

The Vue Gateway is the central network hub with a 300-ft range that syncs up with the wireless cameras in your network and streams the data directly to the my.Vuezone.com website interface. This website is where you manage the whole deal. From here you can view and record live remote video from all active cameras and gateways, play recorded/stored video and snapshots, and share the content with other users or your favorite multimedia websites.

Overall, it seems like the Vue Personal Video Network is a relatively painless way to set up your own Internet-accessible wireless video surveillance network. You can add up to 50 cameras to a single network and you can install additional Vue Gateway hubs to extend the range of the system. The starter kit, which includes two cameras, the wireless gateway, and one year of free access to the my.Vuezone.com monitoring service, is $299.99. Extra cameras will run you $99.99 each. Oh yeah, and after your free year of service is up you’ll have to pay $19.95 a year to keep it going. For more info head over to www.vuezone.com.