Geofenced Camera Access via Gesture for First Responders
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Solution Overview
Problem
Providing first responders with quick and secure access to video from multiple camera systems in a premises is challenging, often wasting bandwidth and requiring manual negotiation, while ensuring security.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that enables a quick access camera mode (QAC) using geofencing and user gestures to authorize access to cameras, allowing seamless video streaming from cameras within a defined area, and updating access as the user moves.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If access is provided to all cameras from different camera systems, then the first responder can retrieve video from any camera, but bandwidth is wasted and security challenges increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides camera access selectively based on the first responder's geographic location. The server determines which cameras are accessible by calculating the distance between the first responder's current location and each camera's location, filtering out cameras that are too far away. This localizes the access scope to only relevant cameras, reducing unnecessary bandwidth consumption while maintaining adaptability.
2Reliability
If manual negotiation is used to provide camera access, then security can be maintained, but time is wasted and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically determines camera accessibility based on the first responder's location without requiring manual negotiation or authorization. The server autonomously calculates which cameras are within the first responder's reachable area and provides access to those cameras automatically. This self-service approach maintains security through location-based filtering while dramatically improving productivity by eliminating manual negotiation time.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the first responder needs to access cameras while moving around the premises, then complete coverage is needed, but continuous manual authorization is required
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors the first responder's location and dynamically updates camera accessibility based on real-time position data. As the first responder moves around the premises, the server receives location updates and automatically recalculates which cameras become accessible or inaccessible. This feedback mechanism enables mobile access capability while simplifying the authorization system by eliminating the need for continuous manual re-authorization.
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AI summary
One or more computing devices establish a geofence around a location of a communication device, that encompasses at least two cameras from different camera systems, and configure a first camera within the geofence to be accessible by a communication device in response to a predetermined user gesture detected in first images from the first camera, that is from a first camera system. The computing device(s), in response to detecting the gesture, provide the communication device with access to: first current and historical video from the first camera. The computing device(s) generate from the first current video, a feature identifier of a user of the communication device and, in response to detecting the feature identifier in second current video from a second camera within the geofence, provide the communication device with access to: second current and historical video from the second camera that is associated with a second camera system.