SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM USING WIRELESS NETWORK, MASTER SENSOR NODE, AND SERVER APPARATUS

• US 20120127318A1
• Filed: 09/19/2011
• Published: 05/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: SONG, Yoo Seung, Park, Sang Joon, Choi, Youngwoo
• Application Number:
  US13/235,574
• Publication Number:
  US 20120127318A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/159
• 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

A surveillance system includes a sensor node, a master sensor node and a server. The sensor node firstly determines whether an event occurs based on self-event information and supplementary event information received from the plurality of sensors. The master sensor node receives the occurrence of the event from the sensor node, and secondly determines whether the event occurred based on the self-event information and the supplementary event information. The server receives whether the event occurs from the master sensor node. The occurrence of the event can be autonomously detected and determined among the sensor node, the master sensor node, and the server.

Claims

1. A surveillance system using a wireless network, comprising:

a sensor node connected to a plurality of sensors and configured to firstly determine whether an event occurs based on self-event information and supplementary event information received from the plurality of sensors;

a master sensor node connected to the sensor node through a wireless channel and configured to;

receive the occurrence of the event from the sensor node, and

secondly determine whether the event occurred based on the self-event information and the supplementary event information; and

a server connected to the master sensor node and configured to receive whether the event occurs from the master sensor node.

2. The surveillance system of claim 1, wherein the server acquires video streams before the occurrence of the event from the sensor node and reviews whether the event occurs based on the video streams before the occurrence of the event.

3. The surveillance system of claim 2, wherein the server requests the sensor node to send the video streams before the occurrence of the event through the master sensor node.

4. The surveillance system of claim 1, wherein the supplementary event information includes at least one of sensor information, environmental cognition parameters, and an event profile acquired from the plurality of sensors.

5. The surveillance system of claim 4, wherein the sensor information includes at least one of ground sensor information and underground sensor information.

6. The surveillance system of claim 1, wherein a connection between the sensor node is established by:

requesting the connection from the sensor node to the master sensor node; and

responding to the request from the master sensor node to the sensor node.

7. The surveillance system of claim 1, wherein communication between the sensor node and the master sensor node and between the master sensor node and the server is performed in accordance with an Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) protocol.

8. The surveillance system of claim 1, wherein the sensor node is connected to at least one sensor node and configured to acquire self-event information from the at least one sensor node.

9. A master sensor node using a wireless network, comprising:

an interface unit configured to provide a wireless interface to a sensor node; and

a processor connected to the interface unit, and configured to;

establish a first connection to the sensor node,

establish a second connection to a server,

receive whether an event occurs from the sensor node, wherein the sensor node determines based on self-event information acquired by the sensor node and supplementary event information acquired by a plurality of sensors,

secondly determine whether the event occurs based on the self-event information and the supplementary event information, and

notify the server of the occurrence of the secondarily determined event.

10. The master sensor node of claim 9, wherein the event information includes at least one of sensor information, environmental cognition parameters, and an event profile received from the plurality of sensors.

11. The master sensor node of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to establish the first connection by receiving a connection request from the sensor node and responding to the connection request.

12. The master sensor node of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to establish the second connection by sending a connection request to the server and receiving a response to the connection request from the server.

13. A server apparatus, comprising:

an interface unit configured to provide an interface to a master sensor node connected to a sensor node through a wireless channel; and

a processor connected to the interface unit and configured to;

establish a connection to the master sensor node;

receive an occurrence of an event from the master sensor node, wherein the sensor node firstly determines based on self-event information acquired by the sensor node and supplementary event information acquired by a plurality of sensors, the master sensor node secondly determines whether the event occurs based on the self-event information and the supplementary event information, and the master sensor node notifies the server of the occurrence of the secondarily determined event; and

review whether the event occurs.

14. The server apparatus of claim 13, wherein the processor is configured to receive video streams before the occurrence of the event from the sensor node and review whether the event occurs based on the video streams before the occurrence of the event.

15. The server apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processor is configured to request the sensor node to send the video streams before the occurrence of the event through the master sensor node.