ePresence was an open source project maintained by the University of Toronto from 2001 to 2008. It has been forked and commercialized in 2008 by the lab ex-employees as a private enterprise. Please visit http://epresence.tv for further details.
Argo-Panoptes is a distributed surveillance system that allows video remote control using a smartphone or web browser as user interface. The system is able to alert the user about failures or motion detection by email, SMS or MMS.