Abstract: The VPN accelerator card of this invention comprises: an interface connector to connect particular interface connector slot of a computer equipment; an interface controller to convert signals and data in a manner that such signals and data are suited for transmission to said computer equipment through said interface connector; a VPN accelerator to automatically direct, after said VPN accelerator card is linked to a particular local network system, the computer equipment connected to said VPN accelerator card to VPN server of a particular network system; and a local network controller to automatically search a local network system and to link said VPN accelerator card to said local network system.

Abstract: An automatic monitoring and alerting device comprises: a monitor module to record the image of a location in a digital format; a video integration module to convert the image data as recorded by the monitor module into a particular video format; which format comprising a format for video data file suited for mobile transmission; a mobile communications module to transmit video data generated by said video integration module and other data to a remote mobile device; and an alert module to actuate said mobile communications module and/or said monitor module when particular conditions are satisfied and to generate an alert signal to be transmitted by said mobile communications module. Images recorded by the monitor module are transmitted to the remote mobile device through a mobile communications system or the internet.