15 Dec 2015
SmartArgos: Improving Mobile Surveillance Systems with Software Defined Networks
http://cns2015.ieee-cns.org/content/posters
Abstract --- Mobile surveillance systems like vehicle mounted
cameras (i.e. police dash cams) and body cameras play an important
role in securing physical spaces ... generate too much data that
hampers timely analysis ...
not sufficient bandwidth ... time
streaming of videos to backend servers.
SmartArgos, a control framework to regulate mobile
surveillance systems. SmartArgos uses software defined networks and
computer vision algorithms to manage multiple mobile surveillance
streams.
By networking ... cameras together to a common backend server, we can
remotely monitoring multiple physical spaces using fewer personnel ...
The collected videos ... streamed from the cameras to the a
backend system via wireless networks.
- A common problem to both mobile and static surveillance systems
- the potential to generate too much video to be observed
efficiently in real time.
- SmartArgos
- a framework that uses software-defined networking to regulate the
transmission of videos from mobile platforms.
- intuition
- use computer vision algorithms … prioritize more important video
streams
- use software-defined networks (SDN) to regulate the bandwidth so
that more important videos uploaded to the backend server faster.
II. SMARTARGOS ARCHITECTURE
- Filtering module
- takes in n input video streams, and outputs a subset of k streams to
display to the personnel monitoring the situation.
- Once the k streams are selected, the backend server uses the
Floodlight controller to instruct the intermediate switches to
throttle the remaining n − k streams.
- Triggering module
- … mobile device sends a command to the backend server, which then
instructs the Floodlight controller to increase the bandwidth for the
mobile device and begin uploading the video stream at a faster rate
III. PRELIMINARY RESULTS
SmartArgos will coordinate different types of mobile cameras,
including vehicle-mounted ones, cameras mounted on drones, as well as
body worn cameras.
IV. CONCLUSION
- control mobile surveillance used in physical security
- SDN to control the available bandwidth for different mobile devices
- support different computer vision implementations to help identify
the necessary data from the video streams