The tag looks like a green ciruclar post-it note. In the centre is a graphic image, but it looks as much like a brand as anything else. Other than that there are only two URLs and the IDPS logo. All of the tag is fairly translucent. Now, I don’t think this would work on another CCTV camera, but I’m not sure… If I ever get in the same room with you, I’ll bring it along.

CCTV back-end systems vary considerably, as there’s quite a number of manufacturers in the area - also, some smartness is now making it into the cameras themselves. A typical IP-based CCTV camera these days runs an embedded Linux, takes an NTP feed to overlay time on captured images, and (not the most elegant mechanism in the world, but considering that a number of vendors do not put a sufficiently-capable CPU in the camera to do SSH…) FTP’s a JPEG per second back to some central server.

Let’s discuss.