One of the most useful and interesting features of a video surveillance software today is the motion detector. Surveillance software today, such as WebCam Looker, Active WebCam and Digi-Watcher, is not just a usual webcam software. Each brand of software offers various useful features. The combination of Motion Detector and other feature, for instance Invisible Supervision or Scheduler, will turn your PC into a powerful video surveillance system.

There are various ways of utilizing the motion detection system. For instance, you can put a video camera near a door so that you will always be kept informed whenever someone passing it. A motion detector is not only useful to alert you, but it also greatly economizes the free disk space as compared with a continuous recording mode, especially if you want to record video clips. The recorded video can then be played back through the Internet.

Setting up a motion detection system is very easy. With WebCam Looker, for the instance, you only need to accomplish some steps. First, select the state of the source (Preview only, Continuous recording, Use motion detector). Just choose the “Use Motion Detector” option and then click the “Detector Settings” button. Next, determine the areas that you want to detect and set up the sensitivity level and alarm delay. And then you are free to set what kind of action you want the software to perform in case it detects a movement.

Software such as Active WebCam can perform various tasks, from sounding an alarm, sending SMS, e-mailing captured images, and broadcasting to recording activity when the program detects a motion in the monitored area. WebCam Looker and Digi-Watcher can even run a program (.exe files) automatically. Perhaps it has nothing to do with home security, but it is still a striking feature that can be utilized anywhere. In addition to how far you can take advantage of this feature will depend on your creativity.