Proton Movies PhotoTrap is an easy-to-use application turning your spare smartphone to the security and surveillance system for
· office and home protection
· baby and pet monitoring
· territory surveillance
· car security
· nature observation
and other.
Wherever you are you can easily connect from your pocket phone to Phototrap for site live video-surveillance. It works via WiFi or any mobile network no special settings are required. You can manually capture pictures and record video while monitoring the site.
Phototrap can independently protect your property by sending Photos or Video from the site
· at motion detection
· automatically in defined period of time from 1s to 24hours (time-lapse feature)
· by your request.
Motion in the protected area is being detected by an External Sensor or/and Embedded Motion Videodetector.
External Sensor can be a standard PIR motion detector or any other sensor: door sensor smoke detector etc. Advantage of using External Sensor is lower false alarms quantity and very long (up to several weeks) Phototrap on-battery operation time without external power. Refer to our Facebook group to learn how to connect standard detector to the Phototrap.
Embedded Motion Videodetector of Phototrap has adjustable sensitivity and 2 working modes: Indoor and Outdoor. In outdoor mode you select triggering areas excluding areas causing false alarms e.g. a swinging tree. The Motion Videodetector in outdoor mode provides detection range up to 30 meters and longer at day time.
When motion is detected Phototrap takes High-Quality pictures or video saves to the phone memory and sends them to your private Email box. Your pocket phone instantly notifies you about new messages in the Email box and downloads pictures and videos to show you on-site events. Downloaded images are being placed to the Photo-gallery which has excellent toolkit allowing to zoom images tune images brightness/contrast easily delete blank images etc.
Phototrap doesn't use an untrusted cloud for sending/receiving/saving pictures and videos you use trusted public Email provider or Email-server of your organization. Phototrap doesn't request your private account credentials it's recommended to create a dedicated Email box for using in the application.
Any time you can request picture or video from the site or send a command to Phototrap for changing any parameter e.g. change motion detector sensitivity time-lapse interval etc.
Phototrap has wide range of features for best fitting your needs and embedded detailed help for each the parameter.
Welcome to join our Facebook group where you can find user tips help from developer and place your suggestions:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/androidphotorap/