Protocol Conversion Gateway for Video Cascade Interoperability
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Solution Overview
Problem
The difficulty in developing protocol conversion gateways increases when superior and subordinate data platforms use different video cascade protocols, requiring separate gateways for each protocol combination, which complicates information interaction and increases development workload.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a protocol conversion method and platform where superior and subordinate protocol conversion gateways use a common third-party signaling standard, allowing seamless interaction without protocol switching, and enabling configuration of new protocols without developing new gateways.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a gateway is developed for each protocol combination between superior and subordinate data platforms, then protocol conversion can be achieved, but device complexity and development workload increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway is designed with multi-functionality to handle multiple video cascade protocols simultaneously. It can dynamically adapt to different protocols (GB28181, DB33, GB28059, etc.) without requiring separate gateway instances for each protocol combination, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining broad protocol compatibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The gateway acts as an intermediary between superior and subordinate data platforms with different protocols. It introduces a standard interface layer that mediates protocol differences, enabling seamless communication without direct protocol matching between platforms, thus eliminating the need for multiple specialized gateways.
2Adaptability or versatility
If separate gateways are developed for each protocol combination, then protocol conversion is possible, but development time and workload increase
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway implements a universal architecture that supports multiple video cascade protocols through a common codebase. When new protocols need to be supported, developers can extend the existing gateway rather than creating new gateways from scratch, significantly reducing development time and workload.
Solution Approach 2:
The gateway employs dynamic protocol adaptation mechanisms that allow it to adjust to different protocols at runtime. This dynamic capability enables the system to handle new protocols through configuration and loading of protocol-specific modules without requiring complete redevelopment, thus reducing development time.
3Ease of operation
If protocol switching is implemented between superior and subordinate data platforms, then information interaction is possible, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway introduces a standard interface as an intermediary between superior and subordinate data platforms. This intermediary layer handles all protocol conversion logic internally, allowing platforms to interact through a unified standard interface without exposing the complexity of protocol switching to the platforms themselves.
Solution Approach 2:
The protocol conversion functionality is extracted from the data platforms and centralized in the gateway. This separation allows the platforms to focus on their core functions while the gateway handles all protocol-related complexity, simplifying the overall system architecture and reducing operational complexity.
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AI summary
The embodiments of the present application disclose a protocol conversion method, a protocol conversion platform and a protocol conversion gateway to reduce difficulty of information interaction between a superior data platform and a subordinate data platform. With the technical solution provided by the embodiments of the present application, the superior protocol conversion gateway and the subordinate protocol conversion gateway use signaling in compliance with the same third-party signaling standard, and the signaling interacted between the superior data platform and the subordinate data platform does not need to be switched between two video cascade protocols, which reduces the difficulty of developing a gateway, and facilitates the signaling interaction between the superior data platform and the subordinate data platform, and when a superior or subordinate data platform supporting a new video cascade protocol appears, it is only required to configure the superior protocol conversion gateway and the subordinate protocol conversion gateway without developing a new gateway, which further reduces workload of developing a gateway.