Mobile Security Camera with Multiple Landing Platforms
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current home security systems, particularly those incorporating UAVs and cameras, face challenges in optimizing complexity, reliability, and economics, with a need for a more compact and flexible solution that can effectively monitor multiple locations and manage complexity across residential properties.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing multiple landing platforms and mobile security cameras with foldable motor supports and a charging mechanism, allowing the cameras to perform surveillance, relocation, and static monitoring, with software managing their positioning and charging across a property, including the use of landing spikes and platforms mounted on buildings for optimal viewing angles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple landing platforms are deployed across the property, then surveillance coverage and response time are improved, but device complexity and system cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the property into multiple zones with dedicated landing platforms, allowing the mobile camera to service multiple locations sequentially rather than requiring a single complex centralized system. Each platform is a simple standardized unit with charging capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile camera unit serves multiple functions: it acts as a surveillance camera from fixed platforms, a mobile patrol unit flying between platforms, and a charging device that recharges at each platform. The landing platforms themselves are multi-functional, serving as landing zones, charging stations, and structural mounting points.
2Productivity
If the mobile camera performs continuous patrolling and following objects, then security monitoring effectiveness is improved, but energy consumption and flight duration limitations worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile camera operates in periodic cycles, alternating between static monitoring from platforms and mobile patrol flights. The system charges energy during stationary periods at platforms, then uses that energy for limited-duration flight operations, creating a rhythmic cycle of charge-flight-charge rather than continuous operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The camera recharges at landing platforms before each flight mission, preparing energy reserves in advance. This preliminary charging action ensures the camera has sufficient energy for the upcoming patrol or monitoring task without needing to carry excess energy reserves.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the camera lands at multiple platforms to recharge, then operational flexibility and coverage are improved, but time spent traveling between platforms and charging increases
Solution Approach 1:
The property is segmented into multiple landing platforms distributed at optimal locations. This segmentation allows the camera to choose the nearest platform for quick landings rather than returning to a single base, reducing travel time during operational periods while maintaining flexibility in deployment locations.
Solution Approach 2:
The landing platforms serve as intermediary charging stations between the camera and the power source. Rather than requiring the camera to carry all its own power or return to a single centralized charging location, the platforms act as distributed energy intermediaries that enable quick recharging at multiple locations.
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AI summary
Using at least one mobile security camera to monitor multiple locations includes providing a plurality of landing platforms for the at least one mobile security camera, positioning the at least one mobile security camera at a particular one of the landing platforms in response to the particular one of the landing platforms being a preferred location of the at least one mobile security camera, and moving the at least one mobile security camera from a preferred location to follow a detected object. Using at least one mobile security camera to monitor multiple locations may also include returning the mobile security camera to the particular one of the landing platforms after the at least one mobile security camera follows the detected object. The at least one mobile security camera may perform static monitoring from the first one of the landing platforms and the second one of the landing platforms.