Peeple Is a Smart Peephole to Upgrade Your Door with Caller ID
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#2Now that is a good example of internet of things, especially for the vulnerable (ain't we all?). I like the idea that a record is kept of who visited.
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#3It sends every picture to a server somewhere before sending the push notification. Not sure I like that very much.
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#4Something closely related I would like to see: a system to identify people ringing apartment doorbells that is visible to tenants. Buildings without video systems or doorpeople rely on "who's there?" as their only means of authentication. Something that could be created and installed cheaply without a major retrofit (so that landlords would actually pay for it) would be great. This device comes close, but seems to be targeted more at homeowners. The device I'm talking would need to be shared among many tenants, and robust enough to deal with drunken buzzer pounders.
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#5How would this work in the case of opening a door from the inside? If a kid opens the door and goes outside, they would only be in the view of the camera briefly.
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#6It sends every picture to a server somewhere before sending the push notification. Not sure I like that very much.
I'm definitely a big fan of the convenience such devices, and even the simple indoor cameras, bring, but the paranoid part of me always wonders about how easy is this for someone else to access?
Not to mention being an amazing vehicle for a surveillance state - want to see all people who visited someone? No problem!
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#7How would this work in the case of opening a door from the inside? If a kid opens the door and goes outside, they would only be in the view of the camera briefly.
The article keeps referring to knocking on the door as the method for actuating the device. Not sure if opening/closing the door would produce the same type of trigger.
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#8How would this work in the case of opening a door from the inside? If a kid opens the door and goes outside, they would only be in the view of the camera briefly.
The article keeps referring to knocking on the door as the method for actuating the device. Not sure if opening/closing the door would produce the same type of trigger.
>In short, Peeple lets you keep a log of people who knock on your door. Chuter thought about this project when his two little boys left the house and played in the street without his consent. Even if your door opens from the inside, Peeple tracks these events. //
It uses an accelerometer.
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#9Something closely related I would like to see: a system to identify people ringing apartment doorbells that is visible to tenants. Buildings without video systems or doorpeople rely on "who's there?" as their only means of authentication. Something that could be created and installed cheaply without a major retrofit (so that landlords would actually pay for it) would be great. This device comes close, but seems to be…
As soon as you start working on the building, you pretty much have the replace the panel, as 1) it has to be secure, and 2) you have no guaranteed network connectivity.
The closest to what you are asking could be a 2N IP video intercom with a 2N 2Wire connector (uses the old copper/coax cable of the analog intercom system for IP), costs around $1,000.
People would then have to connect the network cable from the 2Wire box on their apartment side to their home router and setup their phone to connect to the intercom in P2P mode (intercom acting as SIP server).
Other options is connecting the intercom directly online, which makes setup much simpler but incurs a recurring cost for the building association.
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#10Something closely related I would like to see: a system to identify people ringing apartment doorbells that is visible to tenants. Buildings without video systems or doorpeople rely on "who's there?" as their only means of authentication. Something that could be created and installed cheaply without a major retrofit (so that landlords would actually pay for it) would be great. This device comes close, but seems to be…
As soon as you start working on the building, you pretty much have the replace the panel, as 1) it has to be secure, and 2) you have no guaranteed network connectivity. The closest to what you are asking could be a 2N IP video intercom with a 2N 2Wire connector (uses the old copper/coax cable of the analog intercom system for IP), costs around $1,000. People would then have to connect the network cable from the 2Wire…
A hack suggestion for someone who wants to build something that is more an upgrade than a replacement and address this better -- specially for panels which have individual buttons for each apartment:
- build a camera only panel that can be added on the wall
- camera has a built-in power supply that uses the doorbells panel power
- camera has built-in PLN module that uses modulations on the doorbells panel ground
- in your apartment, you setup a box that connects to your entry phone and grab the video feed from the ground PLN, grabs the triggering from the entry phone line, the box connects to your Wi-Fi network
- the rest is software