Remote surveillance and intervention using wireless phone

• US 20070205888A1
• Filed: 03/06/2006
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gutman, Andrew, Lee, Shze
• Granted Patent: US 8,264,344 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.180
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19656 Network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19658 Telephone systems used to communicate with a camera, e.g. PSTN, GSM, POTS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19684 Portable terminal, e.g. mobile phone, used for viewing video remotely
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/004 Alarm propagated along alternative communication path or using alternative communication medium according to a hierarchy of available ways to communicate, e.g. if Wi-Fi not available use GSM
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways

Abstract

A mobile surveillance appliance receives sensed data over a wireless link from a remote sensing post which monitors a remotely monitored space having a predefined spatial location and transmits the sensed data. The mobile surveillance appliance provides a display of the sensed data from monitored space and an intervention controller which, when activated responsive to an event perceived on the display, encodes the predefined spatial location and an event melioration onto a remote intervention request, and transmits the intervention request to a remote intervener. The remote sensing post, mobile surveillance appliance, and remote intervener may communicate using SIP messaging.

Claims

1. A mobile communications appliance, comprising:

a first transceiver configured to receive sensed data from a remote sensing post over a first wireless link, wherein the sensed data is representative of a remotely monitored space having a predefined spatial location;

a display coupled to the first transceiver and adapted to transform the sensed data into a perceivable representation of the remotely monitored space;

an intervention controller coupled to the display and wherein when activated in response to an event perceived on the display the intervention controller is configured to generate a representation of a unique spatial identifier corresponding to the predefined spatial location of the event in the remotely monitored space, the intervention controller is configured to select an event melioration corresponding to the event, and the intervention controller is configured to generate a remote intervention request corresponding to the predefined spatial location and the event melioration; and

a second transceiver configured to transmit the remote intervention request to a remote intervener over a second wireless link in response to the intervention controller being activated, wherein the mobile communications appliance is a mobile surveillance appliance.

2. The mobile communications appliance of claim 1, wherein the sensed data received from the remote sensing post is sensed video data representative of the remotely monitored space;

wherein the perceivable representation of the remotely monitored space is visual and the display is a video display; and

wherein the unique spatial identifier includes geographic coordinates corresponding to the predefined spatial location.

3. The mobile communications appliance of claim 1, wherein the first wireless link is a fixed wireless link and the second wireless link is a mobile wireless link.

4. The mobile communications appliance of claim 3, wherein the sensed data received from the remote sensing post is sensed video data representative of the remotely monitored space;

wherein the perceivable representation of the remotely monitored space is visual and the display is a video display;

wherein the unique spatial identifier includes geographic coordinates corresponding to the predefined spatial location;

wherein the fixed wireless link is configured according to an IEEE 802.11 wireless communication protocol; and

wherein the mobile wireless link is configured according to an ITU International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 wireless communication protocol.

5. The mobile communications appliance of claim 2, wherein the first wireless link is a fixed wireless link and the second wireless link is a mobile wireless link.

6. The mobile communications appliance of claim 5, wherein the fixed wireless link is configured according to an IEEE 802.11 wireless communication protocol.

7. The mobile communications appliance of claim 6, wherein the mobile wireless link is configured according to an ITU International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 wireless communication protocol.

8. The mobile communications appliance of claim 6, wherein the mobile wireless link is configured according to an ITU International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 wireless communication protocol.

9. The mobile communications appliance of claim 8, wherein the intervention controller generates the remote intervention request using an application-layer, text-based, messaging protocol.

10. The mobile communications appliance of claim 1, wherein the intervention controller generates the remote intervention request using a Session Initiation Protocol application-layer, text-based, messaging protocol.

11. The mobile communications appliance of claim 4, wherein the intervention controller generates the remote intervention request using a Session Initiation Protocol application-layer, text-based, messaging protocol.

12. The mobile communications appliance of claim 11, wherein the mobile surveillance appliance requests sensed data transmission from the remote surveillance post using a first message conforming to Session Initiation Protocol, wherein remote sensing post notifies the mobile surveillance appliance of sensed data being available using a second message conforming to Session Initiation Protocol, and wherein the mobile surveillance appliance establish a communications session using a third message conforming to Session Initiation Protocol, whereby the mobile surveillance appliance causes the remote sensing post to transmit the sensed data.

13. The mobile communications appliance of claim 12, wherein the mobile surveillance appliance encodes the remote intervention request on an outbound Session Initiation Protocol message to the remote intervener.

14. A mobile surveillance method, comprising:

a. receiving a remote intervention request in an outbound intervention message from a mobile surveillance appliance, wherein the remote intervention request corresponds to a perceived event represented on the mobile surveillance appliance, and wherein at least a portion of the receiving includes receiving over a wireless link coupled to the mobile surveillance appliance;

b. determining the predefined spatial location of the remotely monitored space for which the selected remote intervention from the remote intervention request;

c. determining the selected remote intervention corresponding to an event perceived in the remotely monitored space from the remote intervention request.

15. The mobile surveillance method of claim 14, wherein the outbound intervention message is a Session Initiation Protocol message upon which the remote intervention request is encoded, wherein the determining the predefined spatial location includes analyzing a header of the a Session Initiation Protocol message and determining the predefined spatial location therefrom;

and determining the selected remote intervention includes analyzing the header of the a Session Initiation Protocol message and determining the selected remote intervention therefrom.

16. The mobile surveillance method of claim 15, further comprising effecting a remote intervention to the perceived event in response to receiving the remote intervention request.

17. The mobile surveillance method of claim 16, wherein the wireless link coupled to the mobile surveillance appliance is one of a fixed wireless link and a mobile wireless link.

18. The mobile surveillance method of claim 17, wherein the fixed wireless link is configured according to an IEEE 802.11 wireless communication protocol and the mobile wireless link is configured according to an ITU International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 wireless communication protocol.

19. A mobile surveillance system, comprising:

a. a remote sensing post configured to sense data representative of a predefined remotely monitored space corresponding to a unique spatial location, and coupled to a packetized data network capable of transmitting the sensed data from a fixed wireless access point using a wireless link; and

b. a mobile surveillance appliance configured to receive the sensed data from the fixed wireless access point using a first wireless link configured according to an IEEE 802.11 wireless communication protocol, wherein the mobile surveillance appliance is configured to provide a perceivable representation of the sensed data, wherein the mobile surveillance appliance is configured to determine the unique spatial location corresponding to the sensed data, wherein responsive to an event determined from a perceivable representation of the sensed data the mobile surveillance appliance is configured to a generate a remote intervention request having encoded thereon the unique spatial location corresponding to the sensed data, wherein the remote intervention request include an event melioration corresponding to the event, and wherein the mobile surveillance appliance is capable of transmitting the remote intervention request.

20. The mobile surveillance system of claim 19, further comprising a remote intervener configured to receive the remote intervention request transmitted by the mobile surveillance appliance, wherein the remote intervener is configured to determine from the remote intervention request the unique spatial location corresponding to the event and the melioration of the event;

and wherein the remote intervener is one of human agent remote intervener, a remote automated intervener, and a combination thereof.