The IC212w IP Network Camera is designed with the "user-friendly" idea deep in mind. The user can install the IC212w easily on his/her home network and then access the IP Camera anywhere in the world through the accompanied video management software-CamView without setting some complicated DNS name or changing the router's settings. It's just a plug & play action. With 3GPP/ISMA support, users can see the video of the IP camera on any 3G mobile phone anywhere, anytime. The big difference is that there is software for downloading to the mobile phone so that the fixed IP address is not needed for the IP camera. The video settings including frame rate, resolution and bandwidth could be different for PC monitoring and mobile viewing. For indoor surveillance and remote monitoring, the IC212w provides the best image quality in its class, and excellent performance. The IC212w IP Camera also provides the best bandwidth efficiency, it offers 640x480 resolution, 30 fps frame rate, real MPEG4 image compression ability. The built-in microphone enables remote users to not only view, but also listen for additional monitoring options.

With the very low light sensitive sensor and IR led, the IC212w IP Camera can work day and night, satisfying all home security and indoor surveillance needs. With the motor controlled IR-cut filter, the day-time video quality is not affected. The NAS storage function can easily turn any NAS device to a NVR device. The schedule function provides full scheduling of email/ftp sending, motion detection and NAS recording event. With the built-in Web server, the IC212w IP Cameras can also be managed from a standard web browser on a Windows computer or a Macintosh. The IC212w IP Camera provides both wireless IEEE 802.11 b/g and wired Ethernet network interfaces for flexible installation. It supports the WEP and WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) security modes to provide the best security for wireless networks. The IC212w IP Camera provides motion detection function. Users can easily setup this function and receive the notification with the snapshot images through email and/or ftp when some motion events are detected. The IC212w IP camera is ideal for securing small businesses, home offices and residences over a local area network and/or the Internet.

The video quality is dependent on the video parameter settings and the network quality. If you want to have a better video quality, you will usually set higher resolution and higher frame rate. This is fine when you are viewing the video locally in the same network. But when you want to see the video remotely through the Internet, you need to know the Internet speed (bandwidth) connected to your home network. If the “Internet speed” setting of your IP camera is very large, but your real Internet speed (bandwidth) is relatively low, the video quality could be very bad. In some worst case, the video display could be disconnected. In order to have the best video quality, you better have broadband service from your ISP and set the “Internet speed” of the IP camera a little lower than the real Internet speed provided by your ISP.

Also need to notice that when multiple users are displaying the videos from the same IP camera at the same time, the video bandwidth times number of users will be needed for the Internet speed.