Eagle Eye Networks

Category: Technology

Startup2-FI

Are we still a startup?

We’ve come a long way in just a few years. As one of the early employees, and unofficial company historian, I’m often asked about how things used to be. I’m also often asked about what has changed, what’s still the same, what do I think is going to happen in

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ludicrous-speed-FI

Delivering at Ludicrous-Velocity

An account of how Continuous Delivery enabled us to quickly diagnose and scale in response to recent issues with our Motion Notification system. While chasing a wild goose on my adventure, I accidentally gathered some Gevent benchmarks worth sharing. “They’ve gone plaid” — Spaceballs 1987 Click edit button to change this text.We

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cloud-car-web

Using Cloud to Avoid Traffic

Using cloud to avoid traffic?  How does that work? It’s true, today I used cloud computing to avoid traffic.  Here’s a little background.  At Eagle Eye, we not only are a cloud service provider, but we also use cloud services to run our business.  There are the obvious tools such

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API-Server

Live Camera Preview Stream

There have been many questions on how to use our API. One of the most frequent questions we get from our customers is, “How can we play a live preview stream for a camera on our public website?” For those that do not know what a live preview stream is,

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Infrastructure

Eagle Eye Infrastructure

Our infrastructure includes three tiers. We have a backend, a middleware, and a frontend tier. The backend relates to our on premise edge appliance called the Bridge. The Bridge can be thought of as a DVR, but more appropriately, it is a video buffer appliance that is responsible for pushing

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video api integration with access control systems

Integration with Access Control

Endless products can be made better with the addition of images and video. Access control systems are a great candidate to improve with the Eagle Eye Networks Video API. Controlling who gets in and out of secure areas is an important, albeit not glamorous task. There are times where the

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bvio 2014 hackathon

BVIO 2014 Hackathon

BazaarVoice held their annual conference + hackathon and we were lucky enough to participate. Because of the strong engineering talent they attract it made sense for us to let people loose with our Video API and see what they could create. To make it more exciting we had a $1000

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getting previews

Our Video API: Getting Previews

This blog post is an example of how you can use the Eagle Eye Networks Video API to embed the preview stream on another site. This is a common request from businesses that want to show their visitors the inside of their facility without a password. Home owners associations, pet hotels,

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