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I’ve been developing my remote security cameras for a few months now, although progress has been quite fast in the last week.
I’m getting the prototype PCB’s made up, hopefully these will allow me to put my first camera into production.

The main goals of these cameras is long duration event triggered surveillance.
Current systems that are supposed to achieve this are aimed at the hunting market, where visual size and start-up time are not an issue.
In remote human surveillance, the demographics of the target make development of these devices difficult.
In catching poachers, vandals and trespassers – capturing photos and video that allow for facial recognition is the main goal.

The security system runs on 12v power, which means any solar panel, car battery, and other power generating paraphernalia can help sustain the unit for months.
The sensors are completely removable and customisable. The sensor design is open, so that anyone can add-on pressure sensors, infra-red sensors, noise sensors etc.

Will have some photos of development soon.

Backtrack 4 supports the use of the ZTE MF626 out of the box.
While there are plenty of tutorials on how to connect the device, it took me a while to figure out why I could not see the device /dev/ttyUSB0.

When you plug the internet stick into a Windows based operating system, a virtual cd-rom is created. Once the software is installed, inserting the device runs the autorun.exe.
Obviously linux can’t use the system libraries in order to perform the same action, so what you will need to do is eject the cd-rom in linux.
The easiest way in backtrack 4 is to pop open the Konqurer->Storage Devices, hit refresh and you’ll see the cd-rom. Right click and eject.
Now, if you head to your console and type lsusb you will note that you have the correct drivers loaded, and /dev/ttyUSB0 will be available for your choosen modem dialer to use!