Mobile App Development for Video Surveillance
Summary
A Finnish Video Management System (VMS) software provider with offices worldwide wanted an iOS app that would let customers monitor their property through surveillance cameras and, in doing so, promote its video recording software. INNERLUXES designed and developed a complete app for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad that supports live viewing and playback, emailing images, and controlling settings such as locks and lights — working through the provider's own video recording software.
About the Client
The Client is a provider of Video Management System software based in Finland, operating through sales offices on every continent in cooperation with security service providers, distributors, and system integrators.
Remote CCTV Monitoring From an iOS Device
The Client came to INNERLUXES to design, develop, and implement an iOS app for remotely monitoring property through surveillance cameras. To operate, the app had to work with the Client's video recording software, which customers download from the website.
A Complete iOS Surveillance App Tied to the Recording Software
INNERLUXES designed and developed a complete solution supported on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad that gives users full remote control over their surveillance setup:
- Live view and playback — users can watch cameras live and play back recorded footage.
- Share evidence — images can be sent by email straight from the app.
- Control the environment — users can change settings such as locks or lights.
- Tied to the recording software — to use a personal surveillance setup, a user installs the Client's video recording software on their server, available as a free trial and purchasable afterward.
Mobile Monitoring That Also Drives Software Sales
- The Client received a complete solution that provides mobile camera monitoring and promotes its video recording software.
- The solution suits industrial video systems and is especially applicable to the video systems of stores, organizations, banks, and other businesses.
Technologies and Tools
macOS X 10.6, Xcode 3, iPhone SDK 3.0 / 3.2 / 4.0, UIKit.