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If you live in a bad neighborhood, where those darned teens like stealing your patio furniture, investing in a home surveillance system may be just the solution.  However, such a rig is pretty expensive to set up, and then it is hard to monitor, as you can only monitor it from your home.  Cernium’s latest product, Archerfish, is a new type of home or business surveillance system that is designed to monitor a certain area and then report back with video footage.  The system is designed pretty well, as it looks for certain things, and then it has the capacity to send you the appropriate footage to your cell phone. 

Here are some events Archerfish can monitor for you -  a person entering the view, a vehicle entering the view, Intelligent Object Motion, or External Sensor Trigger.  As you can see, Archerfish will be monitoring a selected area all the time, but it will only send video footage when one of these events have been encountered.  Inside the Archerfish box comes a few key components. 

First off, the SmartBox which conveniently monitors all data from the cameras, two cameras, as well as complimentary Archerfish SmartPortal access.  Each SmartBox can monitor up to two cameras, so if you would like additional cameras, you can purchase two more before you need to get another SmartBox.  Now, in case you can’t view footage on your cell phone, it can still be monitored on your computer, assuming an Internet connection is available.  However, if an Internet connection is not available, the service will store the videos, and then send them through email, whenever a connection is established. 

Until June 19, the Archerfish will be available for $1499, but after that, it is available for $1999.  The whole product may become a bit expensive, but just knowing your house is under constant surveillance may be well worth the money.

Via [Archerfish]