Winterhighland operated it’s own webcams for the first time in winter 2008, with our White Lady webcams being viewed 1,290,923 times during the 2008 season.

Initially 2 then 3 cameras situated in the Scottish Ski Club Hut at 2500ft on CairnGorm Mountain offered a range of views up the White Lady and out over Coire Cas, the camera views have been adjusted for summer and will remain available when the system is not at base for further development to improve the camera system for next winter.

During May Winterhighland has been trialling a Logitech Auto Focus webcam in the SSC Hut, this has given great image quality and we will be looking at upgrading the cameras to give sharper views all round as well as developing a more interactive interface for viewing recent images, archived images and latest cam video clips.

This was partly a developmental system to test out the scope for using relatively low cost but higher grade USB consumer webcams as opposed to expensive IP network cameras - providing scope for utilizing low cost hardware in locations where harsh operating conditions could be expected to shorten the operating life or in some cases destroy IT hardware. The successful use of GPRS in a location with a poor and marginal GSM signal offers greater flexibility for locating cameras and the system provides scope to have camera systems which can be deployed in different buildings and huts to provide the most useful views.

Here’s to there being at least as much snow again to watch on the cameras in 2009.

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