including Windows Mobile smartphones and Pocket PCs, and record all motion-based activity.

According to WiLife CEO Andrew Hartsfield, "Traditional embedded processors and video compression technologies used in the security industry didn't accomplish our goals." LukWerks is the first consumer-focused system to integrate TI's DM64x generation of chips and Windows Media Video 9 (Microsoft's implementation of the proposed VC-1 SMPTE standard) directly into video surveillance cameras, he says.

By pushing the processing power "to the edge of the surveillance network," LukWerks is able to perform video compression, video streaming and motion detection inside the cameras and relieve the personal computer of performing these resource-consuming tasks, Hartsfield notes. In doing so, "LukWerks is able to leverage the existing infrastructure in homes and businesses, including personal computers, media center computers, digital video recorders, media gateways and set-top boxes, thus eliminating the need for traditional, expensive and complex professionally-installed hardware."

Lukwerks will be available at Radio Shack and other retail outlets in Q4 2005, according to WiLife.

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