D-Link Pan & Tilt HD Cloud Wi-Fi Baby Camera - DCS-855L

If you are a busy or working mom or Dad, the DCS-855L Wi-Fi Baby Camera can help you keep an eye on your little one. The DCS-855L is a portable Wi-Fi camera that allows you monitor your toddler remotely or directly on your smartphone using a freely available and easy to use mydlink baby app on Apple and Google Play stores. You can install the camera in the nursery or baby play area to keep an eye on your toddler while you finish up with other tasks. The DCS-855L Wi-Fi Baby camera comes with a pan and tilt feature that lets you move the camera remotely, so you can monitor the entire playroom from your smartphone.

This camera gives you several flexible connectivity options. First, you may pair your smartphone directly with your DCS-855L camera via WiFi. Secondly, If you are have a WiFi router in your home, you can connect your smartphone via the WiFi router. And lastly, through the Internet when you are at work, so you can check on your infant no matter where you are. While it does give you the ability to remotely watch your baby or child, there should always be an adult in the same house. The Wi-Fi Baby Camera should only be used as a parenting tool for monitoring your toddler and not a replacement for adult supervision.

Because the DCS-855L camera is portable you can carry it on your travels with your baby and all you need is a mobile device to connect directly to the Wi-Fi Baby Camera.

Attractive features of the D-Link HD Cloud Wi-Fi Baby Camera - DCS-855L

• Motion detection

The DCS-855L Wi-Fi Baby Camera has embedded software with algorithms that continuously analyze video footage for motion. And when motion is detected, notifications are sent out to your smart device.

• Sound sensor

A tiny microphone is embedded into the DCS-855L Wi-Fi Baby Camera to pickup ambient sound. This allows to record or listen to sound from your toddler's surroundings. The sensitivity of this microphone can be adjusted so as to achieve desired clarity level.

• Temperature monitoring

The DCS-855L Wi-Fi Baby Camera has a small temperature probe to measure ambient temperature. Knowing the surrounding air temperature, you are able to determine the level of comfort for your baby and take the appropriate action.
   

• Night vision

Several tiny Infrared (IR) LEDs are fitted around the focus ring of the DCS-855L Wi-Fi Baby Camera to illuminate the camera's field of view. This allows the camera to capture clear images of up to a distance of 16 feet or 5 meters.

• Capture snapshots and record videos

The DCS-855L WiFi Baby Camera has a micro SD card slot that supports microSDHC Class 6 cards and above with maximum capacities of 32 GB. This allows you to record event-triggered Snapshots and Video recording.

• Play gentle lullabies 

Sometimes, easing your baby to sleep can be a nightmare especially for hyper active ones. But the DCS-855L baby camera has got what it takes to help ease your baby to sleep! It has an built-in speaker that allows you to remotely speak to your child or playback gentle lullabies to ease your child to sleep.

• Remote Management

The DCS-855L allows to remotely, take snapshots, record video clips and save directly to your smartphone
or tablet. Additionally, you can connect manage the DCS-855L remotely from web browser since it supports TCP/IP and HTTP/HTTPS. Better still, using mydlink baby app, you can connect directly to the DCS-855L with your smart device.

• mydlink baby app

Mydlink Baby Camera Monitor App is freely available for iOS and Android Mobile Devices on Apple Store and Google Play. By creating an account on on the D-link server, you are able to securely ,monitor your child remotely from anywhere for free using mydlink baby app
 

Full tech specs of the DCS-855L HD Cloud Wi-Fi Baby Camera

• 1/4 inch Megapixel Progressive CMOS Sensor

At the core of the DCS-855L Baby Camera function is a very compact 1/4" Megapixel CMOS progressive scan sensor which produces a realistic and smooth video. The CMOS sensor is capable of video resolutions of 1280 x 720 and 640 x 352.   

• Tilt and Pan Ranges

In digital photography, Tilt and Pan ranges refer to rotations in the vertical and horizontal plane of a camera. For the DCS-855L Baby Camera, the Tilt range is from -25° to 95°, while the Pan range is from -170° to 170°.

• Focal length, Aperture and Digital Zoom 

The focal length normally of a lens camera gives you a description of the lens adopted. It's a lens' measure of how it effectively converges light to a focus. While its aperture denotes the size of an opening or hole that allows light from the objects being imaged to the CMOS image sensor. In the DCS-855L a lens of 3.3 mm is used with an aperture of F/2.2.

• Angle of View  

The Angle of View (AOV) of any camera is the angular measure that an object being imaged subtends at its image sensor. Sometimes Angle of View is also referred to as Field of View (FOV). The Angle of View is measured vertically (V), horizontally (H) and diagonally (D). For the DCS-855L field of view is restricted to 70.4° horizontally, 43° vertically and 84.6° diagonally.

• Infrared IR LEDs

The IR LEDs that support night vision have a maximum illumination distance of 16 feet or 5 meters with a minimum illumination of 0 lux with IR LEDs are On. Additionally, it has an embedded Infrared-Cut Removable (ICR) Filter.

• Built-in Microphone and Speaker

The built-in microphone is for recording and capturing audio from your child's environment while the speaker allows to speak to your child remotely.

• Alerts and Notifications

The Camera sends out alerts or notifications to your mobile device upon detection of sound and/or motion.

• Supported Network Protocols

The DCS-855L Baby Camera supports IPv4, ARP, TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, DHCP Client, NTP Client (D-Link), DNS Client, DDNS Client (D-Link), HTTP, HTTPS (for Configuration), UPnP Port Forwarding and RTP/RTSP/RTCP.

• Input/Output Ports

The DCS-855L Camera has two ports; a micro USB power port and a microSD card slot. The microSD card slot supports microSDHC Class 6 cards up to a maximum capacity of 32 GB.

• Video features

The DCS-855L Baby Camera supports video resolutions of 1280 x 720 and 640 x 352. While codecs H.264 and JPEG are supported for video format and still Images respectively.

• DCS-855L Weight and Dimensions

This Camera measures approximately 4.5 inches x 4.3 inches x 5.2 inches (114.16 mm x 109.16 mm x 131.3 mm) and weighs a net of 14 oz or 396 g.

• Power Requirements

The DCS-855L Camera uses an external power adapter with Input 100 -240V AC, 50/60Hz (of micro USB type) and with an output of 5V DC, 2 A. Alternatively, you can use an external USB power bank to power your camera. It's total power consumption is about 7.5 W.

• Operating Temperature and Humidity

This Baby Camera is very robust. It operates between 32° and 104°F (0° to 40°C) and humidity levels between 20 and 80% RH Non-condensing.

• DCS-855L Pricing

The price for this baby camera varies between $203 to $249.99 depending on where you buy it from.