Webcam recommendations?

There are many IP based security systems out there. I know we had a setup in Iraq that ran off a PoE switch and the only thing the server did was display the video onto the monitors for the guards to view. To my knowledge though all cameras need SOME kind of controller to work.

Addendum: I am not a security camera expert but I know how things were set up and I was constantly doing maintenance on the system... in full battle gear.

But when I googled, I couldn't quickly find one. But when you do that, you buy into a "fixed" technology, versus using an off the shelf webcam and third party software to build a solution. The latter will be more flexible for sure.

James

I recommend a program called vitamin d video surveillance

it was free and in beta but has since gone full. You can still try it out for free, but all your features will be their.

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/vitamin-d-free-video-surveillance-software/

or just google it.