Image-Surveilled Security Escort System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing security systems fail to provide effective automated notification and escort options for users based on time of day, crowd density, and security event detection in image-surveilled areas, leaving users vulnerable, especially in low-light or sparsely populated environments.
Innovation Solution
An image-surveilled security escort system that uses computing devices to determine if the current time is outside a predetermined period, if the crowd density is below a threshold, or if a security event is detected, and sends notifications to users offering escort options, which can include security personnel or alternative paths, and initiates check-in processes with timers to ensure user safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If automated security notification systems are implemented, then user safety is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The security system is segmented into multiple independent components: image-surveilled areas for monitoring, computing devices for analysis, notification systems for alerts, and escort service integration. Each component operates independently but contributes to the overall safety function, reducing the complexity burden on any single element while maintaining comprehensive user protection.
2Reliability
If continuous image surveillance is deployed, then security event detection is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The image surveillance system operates periodically rather than continuously, analyzing frames at intervals and using motion detection to trigger more intensive monitoring only when necessary. This periodic operation maintains security event detection capability while significantly reducing overall energy consumption of the surveillance infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The computing device automatically analyzes image data and self-determines when security events occur without requiring constant human monitoring. The system serves itself by autonomously detecting anomalies, triggering notifications, and managing escort service activation, reducing the energy burden of manual security operations.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If security escort options are provided, then user vulnerability is reduced, but service complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system serves as an intermediary between the security monitoring infrastructure and the user, translating complex surveillance data into simple, actionable escort options. This intermediary layer manages the complexity by filtering and presenting only relevant security information and escort choices to the user, reducing perceived service complexity while maintaining comprehensive protection.
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AI summary
Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium comprising determining, by a computing device, whether a current time of day is outside a pre-determined time period and/or whether a quantity of people in an area is less than a count threshold and/or whether a security event is detected in image-surveilled data associated with a destination; and sending, by the computing device and responsive to the current time of day being outside the pre-determined time period and/or the quantity of people in the area being less than the count threshold and/or the security event being detected in the image-surveilled data associated with the destination, a notification to a user, wherein the notification is configured to provide one or more options for a security escort for the user to reach the destination.