The company’s WallBotz appliances are designed to alert administrators when there’s something wrong with the environment where they keep their important IT infrastructure – be it fire, flood, intruders, or a range of other potential problems.
The devices plug into the network, are assigned an IP address, and send alerts to the administrators via email and to systems management systems via SNMP. Up to 17 cameras can be supported on a single box.
NetBotz will today introduce the WallBotz 500 series, which CTO Mitch Medford said was built with what we thought a competitor would build if they wanted to put us out of business in mind.
Key in the new model is the ability, if the user chooses to and has sufficient bandwidth and storage, to have four 1280 x 1024-pixel 30 frames per second video streams running, with the data encrypted with SSL before being sent to the administrator’s desktop.
NetBotz doesn’t recommend that configuration as a default, however. Most users would have only one or two frames per second being captured, with full video only used for specific incidents or when the WallBotz motion detector has picked up movement.
As well as the video upgrade, the 500 uses a standard camera fitting to allow a choice of lenses, has a card slot for wireless networking, and a speech synthesizer for audio alerts. The camera unit and the sensor units are now detachable, connecting via USB.
NetBotz’s Medford said the company has sold a lot of WallBotz since the company was founded in 1999. NetBotz, which has a channel-only sales model, will also announce today that it has just signed its 2,000th customer.
The devices cost from $1,200 to $2,700. Some high-end customers are deploying thousands of them in their data centers around the work, Medford said. He added that the firm has been doubling revenues quarter to quarter all through the recession.
Source: Computerwire
