Introducing network cameras
Nowadays, there are plenty of manufacturers who sell network cameras that are able to connect to home network via Ethernet or Wi-Fi. Most of the companies also provide a free or paid cloud account for you to register your camera to their cloud system. After you've authorized your camera to stream to a private cloud server, you will be able to get a video stream from your home anywhere with an Internet connection.
Network cameras use the HTTP or RTSP Internet protocols to enable you to access a video stream from the camera. Most network cameras stream videos with the MJPEG (Motion JPEG) format over HTTP. MJPEG is a widely used format by digital cameras; it compresses sequences of JPEG images in a MJPEG container.
Most network cameras also have a web interface to access the camera via a local network and change settings. Within these settings, it also enables security with defined users wherein only users who have an account on the network cameras are allowed to access...
