Emergency Video Stream Requisition via Intermediary Server
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing video security systems face challenges in enabling secure, controlled sharing of video streams across disparate networks while maintaining privacy and access control, particularly for emergency services and private camera owners, as they lack a standardized method to access video feeds from neighboring jurisdictions without compromising privacy or requiring broad credentials.
Innovation Solution
A method that allows emergency services to request and receive transformed video streams from privately owned cameras, using a time-bound API that adheres to privacy and access settings, enabling selective access to video feeds from multiple camera networks while maintaining control over who can access the streams and under what conditions, using a secure video store with dynamic constraints.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If emergency services access video streams from cameras in neighboring jurisdictions, then situational awareness is improved, but privacy and security control are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
A server acts as an intermediary between camera operators and emergency services display terminals. The server receives video streams from cameras, applies transformations based on privacy settings, and delivers transformed streams to authorized emergency services. This intermediary architecture enables emergency services to access video feeds for situational awareness while the server enforces privacy and security controls, thus resolving the contradiction between information access and privacy protection.
2Loss of information
If private camera networks share video streams with neighbors, then community awareness is improved, but control over privacy is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The server serves as a mediator that receives video streams from private camera networks and distributes transformed streams to neighboring devices. The server applies transformations based on privacy settings configured by camera operators, allowing neighbors to view transformed video feeds for community awareness while the original camera operators retain control over their privacy settings through the server's transformation capabilities.
3Productivity
If emergency services requisition video streams from multiple networks, then response capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server merges video streams from multiple disparate camera networks into a unified system. Instead of emergency services needing to integrate with multiple separate camera networks directly, the server consolidates these streams and delivers them through a single interface to emergency services display terminals. This merging approach improves response capability by providing access to multiple networks while reducing system complexity by centralizing the integration function in the server.
Data Source
AI summary
A system provides a transformed video stream from, a publicly or privately owned and operated camera bearing on an in-scope location vicinity, to, a responding emergency service agency (ESA). A request from an emergency services agent's display terminal includes location indicia and elicits a map of cameras bearing on the location vicinity as well as other display terminals in the area. Upon request, an application programming interface enables a video stream to comply with the privacy and access settings of the camera owner/operators. A plurality of private and public security surveillance cameras is coupled to a server. Exterior/street view video images are streamed to the server which may contact an owner for emergency access. An emergency agency vehicle at a location has a display for a selected gallery of obfuscated exterior/street views from cooperative networks of public and private security cameras bearing on the vicinity of an incident.