Method of video surveillance using cellular communication

• US 10,356,368 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2015
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Caliber Communications Inc.
• Original Assignee: Caliber Communications Inc.
• Inventors: Vourkoutiotis, Alexandros John
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Thuong
• Application Number:
  US14/822,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20160044283A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,436 Days
• Field of Search: 709249, 709217, 709219, 709228, 709203, 370401, 370255, 370252, 348143, 3482071, 348 61, 348158
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19667 Details realated to data compression, encryption or encoding, e.g. resolution modes for reducing data volume to lower transmission bandwidth or memory requirements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor

Abstract

A method of video surveillance with a mobile station using cellular communication including the steps of: a) applying power to a mobile station which includes a router in communication with a wireless transceiver for transmitting data wirelessly; b) the router in communication with an private network in the mobile station; c) the private network in communication with surveillance devices attached to the mobile station; d) the router in communication with a private APN via the wireless transceiver over a cellular network and the mobile internet to a monitoring center; and e) the monitoring center receiving wireless surveillance data from the surveillance devices and transmitting control data wirelessly to the devices such that surveillance monitoring and device control is completed wirelessly over a series of networks.

Claims

1. A mobile station for video surveillance using cellular communication with a monitoring center, wherein inside or attached to the mobile station, the mobile station comprises:

a. a router having a wireless transceiver for transmitting data wirelessly and having a public static IP address, the router configured for communication with the monitoring center via a private Access Point Network (APN) of a cellular network and via the mobile Internet, wherein the APN is configured to allow unrestricted flow of data with the router including no data throttling, and no blocked ports, wherein the router is configured to instruct the APN to reset a time to live for each data packet received from the router;

b. a Network Video Recorder (NVR) that includes a processor and has a respective private IP address;

c. a plurality of surveillance devices;

d. the processor of the NVR configured for communicating with the surveillance devices and defining a private network that is internal to the mobile station by assigning a respective private IP address to each of the surveillance devices and assigning a respective port address of the router corresponding to the private IP address of each surveillance device, and the respective private IP address of the respective surveillance device is unknown to the monitoring center; and

e. an internal storage;

f. wherein the surveillance devices are configured for sending, through the router and through the private APN, wireless surveillance data from the surveillance devices to the monitoring center, the surveillance devices are configured for communication with the private IP address of the NVR of the mobile station and the NVR stores surveillance data to the internal storage, and at least one of the surveillance devices are configured for receiving control data wirelessly from the monitoring center, through the public IP address and the respective port address of the router, and the router is configured to route the control data to the private IP address of the respective surveillance device, for the at least one of the surveillance devices to implement one or more commands from the control data;

wherein one or more commands of the control data include adjusting predetermined analytical parameters;

wherein the mobile station is configured to monitor and record analytic data which is based on the predetermined analytical parameters which trigger an exception, the exception is one or more of a line crossing, an object removal, or a facial recognition, and wherein the mobile station is configured to determine, without interaction of the monitoring center, the exception by machine analytics applied to video imaging and in response to the exception;

send the analytic data of the exception to the monitoring center, and trigger an alarm.

2. The station of claim 1 wherein the monitoring center is configured to receive video from multiple mobile stations, including the mobile station, each for monitoring a respective site, and is configured to compile data from each of the multiple mobile stations, wherein all of the sites are associated with a client and data from all of the client'"'"'s sites are stored into a client'"'"'s data file for subsequent on demand output to the client.

3. The mobile station of claim 2 wherein the NVR is further configured for communicating between the router and the surveillance devices.

4. The mobile station of claim 2 wherein a client'"'"'s request for duplicate wireless surveillance data is served by the monitoring center from the client'"'"'s data file.

5. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein the NVR is further configured for communicating between the surveillance devices, wherein each of the surveillance devices include a respective Media Access Control (MAC) address, wherein the assigning of the respective port address is identified by the processor NVR with the respective MAC address and the respective private IP address of the respective surveillance device.

6. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein the surveillance devices are one or more video cameras or Pan Zoom Tilt Cameras (PZTs).

7. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein one or more further commands of the control data include one or more of:

vary resolution of video transmitted to monitoring center, or pan or tilt camera.

8. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein the mobile station records statistical information from the analytic data.

9. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein the mobile station is solar powered.

10. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein the exception further comprises a region encroachment.

11. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein the processor configures data transmission of the wireless surveillance data over the cellular network such that less than 10 gigabytes of data are consumed for 432 hours of surveillance time with three video cameras continuously operating.

12. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein data from the surveillance devices is transmitted to the NVR and recorded and stored onto the internal storage at a highest resolution possible.

13. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein data from the surveillance devices is stored internally by the NVR at a highest resolution possible and transmitted via the router over the cellular network at reduced resolution as compared to the highest resolution possible.

14. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein the surveillance devices include one or more IP cameras that collect video images using one or more of the following protocols:

open network video interface forum (ONVIF), Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) or Computer Graphics Interface (CGI).

15. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein the mobile station includes further devices that are assigned the respective private IP address by the processor, the further devices being one or more of lights or sounding devices.

16. The mobile station of claim 15 wherein the one or more further devices are configured for receiving the control data wirelessly from the monitoring center, through the router, for the one or more further devices to implement one or more further commands from the control data, wherein the one or more further commands of the control data include one or more of:

trigger an triggered alarm is an audible alarm, or trigger a light, or initiate two way voice messaging.