Looking at today's tendency of video surveillance systems, it can be easily noticed that popularity of IP based solutions is growing really fast. There are quite a lot of manufacturers, who provide great range of IP video cameras and video servers, meant to serve in a professional IP-enabled video surveillance system. More than that, many companies provide solutions aimed at converting current CCTV video surveillance systems to IP based systems, keeping current equipment and infrastructure. In addition to these companies who provide not just hardware solutions, but software as well, there are a lot of other companies who focus on the software part of IP video surveillance systems mostly, providing complete solutions for small or enterprise business, as well as for personal use.

IFRP is a protocol API. While designing this project, key emphasis has been paid to security rather than any other aspect. IFRP is a UDP-based replacement for the File Transfer Protocol , designed for anonymous and secure access with lower hardware and network requirements than FTP. In particular, because it uses UDP, it avoids the problems that many FTP servers have had with requiring a separate process for each client, and because it is built to use an unreliable protocol, it can more easily handle resuming a transfer after a network failure.

As IFRP server requires only one process (as opposed to one process per client for most FTP servers), it is much harder for a system administratorto notice it in a process list, and as it uses UDP, it is less likely to be noticed by a network administrator .

This means information technology at home (domus is Latin for home). Although remote lighting and appliance control have been used for years, domotics is another term for the digital home, including the networks and devices that add comfort and convenience as well as security. Controlling heating, air conditioning, food preparation, TVs, stereos, lights, appliances, entrance gates and security systems all fall under the domotics umbrella.