CANON NU-700N PTZ CAMERA
SYSTEM DELIVERS BROADCAST QUALITY VIDEO TO THE WEB
EarthCam Relies on Canon Quality
For its Worldwide Online Video Audience
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., August 1, 2005—With more
than 180,000 daily visitors and 300 million page
views per month, EarthCam specializes in providing
Webcam technology and managed services to a wide
variety of industries and users. EarthCam cameras
provide live video over IP of everything from construction
sites and highway traffic to foreign tourist attractions
and Times Square billboards. And for many of its
most mission-critical installations, EarthCam has
chosen the Canon NU-700N Network Controllable Pan/Tilt/Zoom
camera system to deliver reliable, high-quality
video images.
“Canon’s NU-700N is one
of our top sellers because the image quality is
outstanding and it’s dependable,” explains
EarthCam CEO and Founder Brian Cury. “The
Canon
NU-700N is just an excellent camera because the
quality of the Canon optics married with the Canon
three-chip color camera creates unsurpassed image
quality for relatively low cost that really delivers
image excellence over the Web.”
The Canon NU-700N combines a quarter-inch
three-CCD Canon video camera with Canon’s
exceptional built-in 20X optical zoom lens and 5X
digital zoom for a powerful 100X zoom range. The
NU-700N is contained within a rugged outdoor housing
that includes a rain wiper. When connected to a
camera server, such as Canon’s VB150 Network
Camera Server, the system can be connected to the
Internet or a LAN via a non-proprietary protocol
control panel or a PC, enabling control of camera
functions (including camera pan, tilt, zoom, and
focus) from anywhere with network access.
EarthCam integrates the NU-700N into
its own proprietary Webcasting software and hardware
system known as MediaCaster, which encodes the NU-700N’s
broadcast-quality video and streams it over the
Internet. According to EarthCam, they exploit every
bit of Canon’s NU-700N’s zoom range
in order to capture images across great distances,
which is especially useful for such applications
as Web tourism and observation of construction sites.
“With our Statue of Liberty
Cam, we need superior optics because our camera
is in Brooklyn and it’s zoomed across New
York Harbor watching the Statue of Liberty,”
Cury notes. “In Tokyo, meanwhile, we have
a client that’s monitoring their 2,200-acre
automobile facility in Texas. To see the quality
and visual details of that job site they also need
to be able to zoom great distances.”
The NU-700N’s durable housing
and rain wiper were essential features for its 24/7
performance, Cury notes. “The NU-700N not
only delivered what the existing CCTV cameras were
doing, but also enhanced the look of the video thanks
to the Canon three-chip technology. We are extremely
impressed.”
EarthCam’s canvas is the Internet,
and its cameras are its brush. “Being able
to control, manage, and operate a network camera
over the Internet is a tremendous tool in itself,”
Cury explains. “We currently use four Canon
NU-700N’s in New York’s Times Square;
people from all over the world can experience beautiful
scenic shots of that location and visit it virtually
from their computers. And not only is the NU-700N
used for virtual tourism, it also has business applications
for broadcasters, real-estate developers, and companies
operating prominent Times Square billboards.”
“For many of our clients Webcam
monitoring is not a question of budget, but of dependability
and quality,” Cury concludes. “That’s
why we spec the Canon NU-700N. EarthCam is going
to continue to grow its services and products, and
we’re depending on Canon to deliver excellent
camera products that are going to help our company
continue its leadership role in providing video
over IP and related network solutions and software.”
About EarthCam, Inc.
EarthCam is the recognized leader in providing live
streaming video Webcam software and technology solutions
to businesses. Commencing in 1996, EarthCam began
developing the proprietary software, network infrastructure,
and technical expertise that now allows it to deliver
millions of live images to thousands of users each
day. EarthCam provides complete infrastructure services
to manage, host, and maintain live streaming video
camera systems for its corporate clients. Clients
include the US Department of Defense, Skanska, Turner
Construction, Bechtel Corp., Disney, Coca-Cola,
Ford, Sprint, Toyota, Panasonic, Yahoo!, Northrop
Grumman, New York City Department of Transportation,
Boeing, NASA, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Bovis Lend Lease,
Lockheed Martin, City of Chicago, GSA, Army Corps
of Engineers, and Office of Homeland Security. Visit
EarthCam at: www.earthcam.net.
About Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc. delivers consumer, business-to-business,
and industrial imaging solutions. The Company is
listed as one of Fortune's Most Admired Companies
in America and is rated #35 on the BusinessWeek
list of “Top 100 Brands.” Its parent
company Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ) is a top patent holder
of technology, ranking third overall in the U.S.
in 2004, with global revenues of $33.3 billion.
For more information, visit www.usa.canon.com.
