UPNP PRODUCTS

At the 1999 Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), eight companies provided prototype hardware and software to demonstrate some of the many applications that can be brought together on home networks through Universal Plug and Play. Let us take a closer look at one of these UPnP implementations—a Web-enabled camera from Axis Communications.

Based on its thin server technology, Axis has a line of smart objects featuring print servers, scanner servers, storage servers, and camera servers. Implementation of a smart object in the form of a Web-enabled camera available from Axis Communications is described here. The device incorporates an embedded minimized Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) design that provides all the ...

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