Welcome to lumerity.net

lumerity.net is a new service designed to help you keep an eye on things when you're not there. The Lumerity monitoring kit and web service let you see any indoor location where you have an always-on Internet connection and a mains power supply.

How it works

We supply you with the Lumerity monitoring kit (a plug computer plus a camera). Here is a picture of the kit (the ruler is there for scale, it's not part of the kit):

You install the kit at your location by plugging in the cables and pointing the camera. You don't need tools or computer expertise. You're free to move the kit to another location at any time. You can also give it away or sell it - you own it outright.

Once installed, the kit takes a routine picture every sixty seconds and uploads the picture to lumerity.net (this site). Provided your Internet connection is good, the kit uploads each picture as soon as it's taken and your picture is safely on lumerity.net's server 5-10 seconds after being taken.

Pictures on the server are available for viewing for 10 days. Any time before then you can save a picture to your own computer by using your browser ("Save Image As..." in Firefox, for example).

Please note, while we endeavour to keep the service working, we cannot warrant any particular level of reliablity, due to network outages, power outages, bugs in software, illness, accidents or other reasons.

A couple of sample pictures taken by the kit:

Click an image to see it at full size (640x480 pixels).

From anywhere in the world where you have access to the Internet, you can log into your account at lumerity.net and view your pictures.

Please note, due to its technical deficiencies, Microsoft Internet Explorer does not work for viewing pictures at lumerity.net.

Motion detection

The kit also detects motion. Once it sees motion, it takes a picture every two seconds until the motion stops, uploading each picture as it's taken.

There is a maximum, however: it won't upload more than 90 motion pictures (three minutes' worth) in any ten minute period. This is to contain bandwidth costs and make the service affordable as widely as possible.

Please note, we call them 'motion pictures' to distinguish them from the routine every-minute snapshots; all the pictures from the kit are still-pictures, not video.

Motion alerts

As a lumerity.net customer, you can supply an email address for motion alerts. Then lumerity.net will send you an alert when your kit uploads a motion picture. Motion monitoring starts two minutes after the kit turns on (or after you reconnect the camera).

Once we send you an alert, we 'go quiet' for 30 minutes, so that you won't be bombarded by our alerts if the motion continues. Once the 30 minutes is up, the next motion detection will cause another alert.

If your Internet goes out

If your Internet connection goes out, the kit will start saving up the pictures that it would normally upload to lumerity.net. When your Internet service returns, the kit will resume uploading the pictures.

The kit has limited storage space, so it will accumulate a maximum of 30 MB (megabytes) of pictures. Typically that means around eight or nine hundred pictures. Once it reaches the 30MB limit the kit starts deleting pictures, the oldest first, to free up space for new pictures.

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