Monitoring service process using communication network

• US 20040008257A1
• Filed: 07/03/2003
• Published: 01/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jung Hwan Kim
• Original Assignee: Jung Hwan Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Jung-Hwan
• Application Number:
  US10/613,464
• Publication Number:
  US 20040008257A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/152
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253

Abstract

Disclosed is a monitoring service process using a communication network, in which monitoring data from a monitoring zone is transmitted to a monitoring center using a communication network and is stored therein. After stored monitoring data is transmitted to a place specified when an event occurs. The monitoring data can be analyzed. This process includes registering the monitoring sites with the monitoring service center; transmitting monitoring data to the monitoring service center; receiving the monitoring data from the monitoring sites, classifying the monitoring data according to the monitoring sites and storing the classified monitoring data; and notifying an event'"'"'s occurrence to a manager of a corresponding monitoring site and transmitting the monitoring data to a place specified when an event occurs. Since the monitoring data is stored in a secure place rather than in the actual monitoring spot, breakage or destruction of the monitoring data can be prevented.

Claims

1. A monitoring service process, in which monitoring sites and a monitoring service center are connected to each other via a communication network so as to have the custody of monitoring data, the process comprising the steps of:

registering the monitoring sites with the monitoring service center;

transmitting monitoring image data and sensing signals of monitoring zones, which are imaged and detected by the respective monitoring sites, to the monitoring service center;

receiving the monitoring data transmitted from the registered monitoring sites, classifying the monitoring data according to the monitoring sites and storing the classified monitoring data in the monitoring service center; and

notifying an event'"'"'s occurrence to a manager, set at the above registration, of a corresponding monitoring site and transmitting the monitoring image data of a predetermined amount to a place specified when an event occurs in any of the monitoring sites.

2. A monitoring service process according to claim 1, wherein each monitoring site includes monitoring cameras for monitoring corresponding zones, a trespass-sensing sensor for detecting a lawless person'"'"'s trespass upon the monitoring zone, a fire-sensing sensor for detecting a fire breaking out and a monitoring client for forming sensing signals inputted from the respective sensing sensors and monitoring data forwarded from the monitoring camera into a preset communication packet and transmitting the communication packet to a monitoring server through the communication network.

3. A monitoring service process according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring service center includes a web server and a database, and stores and manages an IP address of the monitoring site, identification and communication of the monitoring site manager, an IP address of a place to which the monitoring data will be transmitted when an event occurs, the quantity of monitoring data to be transmitted and so forth inputted at the registration.

4. A monitoring service process according to claim 1, wherein the manager can confirm desired monitoring images after being connected to the monitoring service center and logging in.