Lisle, IL, August 6th — Lextech Labs’ iRa earned the “Coolest iPhone App” award at iPhoneDevCamp 2 in San Francisco, CA on Sunday. The mobile surveillance application was selected from a pool of more than 40 applications submitted during the two day event.
During the application demo, Lextech engineers displayed multiple live video streams on the iPhone from locations across the United States. They also demonstrated the remote, touch-based pan, tilt, and zoom camera controls to the 300+ developers in attendance.
“There was spontaneous awe in the room when Alex demonstrated iRa, the remote camera control application for iPhone,” said Dominic Sagolla, iPhoneDevCamp Co-Founder. “We thought it would be very hard to judge the ‘Coolest App’ category, but Lextech pretty much nailed that one.”
Three Lextech team members, including CEO Alex Bratton, flew to the San Francisco gathering and three attended the satellite location in Chicago. Lextech also donated technical expertise and equipment to the event by providing a backup live video broadcast.
Andrew Mager of The Web Life writes about iRa in his article “Top 5 apps from iPhone Dev Camp 2″ (video inside)
“iRa – Phone geeks watched in awe as Alex Bratton from Lextech Labs controlled 12 security cameras in Illinois with an iPhone in San Francisco. You can zoom in and zoom out with regular iPhone gestures.” Read the full article here.
“iRa: a high-end surveillance video system, with haptic control of direction and depth of field of the cameras! Absolutely mind-blowing. The demonstration drew ‘ooh!s’ and ‘aaah!s’ from the audience, and a thunder of applause.” Read the full article here.
“iRa: Easily the most impressive demo at iPhoneDevCamp, iRa takes mobile control and viewing of surveillance systems outside of the windowless, multi-monitor command center and puts them in the palm of your hand.” Read the full article here.
“For an entry in the Serious Business category, iRa managed to pack in some serious cool. It’s an interface for viewing live video from remote surveillance cameras, with amazingly responsive video (motion JPEG apparently) over 3G. The best part of the demo was when he…” Read the full article here.
