Camera Power Management via Shared Video Footage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices, such as doorbells, lack the ability to easily share video footage with neighbors or friends, limiting their effectiveness in alerting others to potential dangers and hindering crime prevention.
Innovation Solution
The development of A/V recording and communication devices that enable users to upload and share video footage to the cloud, allowing neighbors or friends to receive notifications and alerts based on the device's location, with features like power management to conserve energy and enhance surveillance capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If A/V recording and communication devices continuously record and store video footage, then surveillance capability is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device alternates between active recording mode and low-power standby mode. Video footage is recorded periodically or event-triggered rather than continuously, allowing the device to conserve energy while maintaining surveillance effectiveness through selective recording of important events.
Solution Approach 2:
The device automatically shares recorded video footage with neighboring devices and the cloud without requiring continuous manual intervention. This automated sharing mechanism ensures surveillance coverage is maintained across multiple devices while the individual device can enter low-power states between recording events.
2Adaptability or versatility
If A/V recording and communication devices share video footage across the network, then community awareness and crime prevention are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A cloud-based server acts as an intermediary to receive, store, and distribute video footage between A/V devices. This mediates the complexity by centralizing the sharing infrastructure, allowing individual devices to have simplified hardware while still achieving network-wide surveillance coverage through the cloud platform.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for communicating in a network using share signals in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for communicating in a network may include receiving, from a first client device associated with an A/V recording and communication device, at a backend server in network communication with the A/V recording and communication device, a share signal comprising location data and first image data captured by a first camera of the A/V recording and communication device, the share signal including a command to share the first image data with a network of users; generating a power-up command signal based on the share signal; identifying at least one second camera to power up; and transmitting the power-up command signal to the at least one second camera, by the backend server, using a network interface.