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It Will look Just like An Alarm Clock, But It Has A Concealed Spy Camera That Can Record Anything

By Ashman E McCray


My grandmother still lives with the family at age 90. Since we worked and did not have the time to look after her, we entrusted her to a care provider. On the following weeks, everybody began airing concerns about nana's worsening state of health and had a nagging feeling that she was not being overseen adequately.

We wanted solid evidence of this, so I recommended procuring spy cameras that could watch over the daily activities of the caretaker. We got a hidden camera alarm clock on the Internet. It is a covert camera that pretends to be a mere alarm clock. The rationale behind the purchase was that the caretaker would not be guarded with her actions, not having the slightest hint that a security camera was concealed in an alarm clock.

In fact, the hidden camera alarm clock is a working alarm clock. We agreed to put it in grandma's bedroom so that we could keep tabs on how the caretaker attended to her. As the DVR was built-in, it eliminated any setup since the camera had its own video recorder.

Motion-activated recording was possible. The DVR would only start recording once it detected movement in our grandmother's quarters. This way, we did not have to go through clips where nothing was happening.

This hidden camera alarm clock could be programmed as well so that animal movement did not trigger the recording. It came with motion detection area masking that enabled us to keep the DVR from recording pets in motion, which was crucial because our grandmother's cat liked to enter and exit the premises.

The recordings could be viewed on a television by connecting this with the camera via the provided RCA cable. Another way was on a laptop or desktop computer where we could plug in its free 8GB SD card.

After installing it in grandma's space, I was assigned to review the recordings of the hidden camera alarm clock on a nightly basis. While nothing fishy was captured on video during the earliest couple of days, I noticed last week that the caretaker was not consistent about administering medication to grandma. I made this conclusion after counting exactly how often she went to the bedroom holding the medicine tray.

The caretaker acknowledged her shortcomings after we viewed the footage with her and she was given the boot. We realized that families should have spy cameras to help them catch irresponsible house help.




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