Security Camera Auto-Executable Function Fault Resolution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Maintaining large-scale video surveillance systems is time-consuming and expensive due to frequent faults in video cameras caused by various factors such as weather, light conditions, hardware, and software failures, leading to prolonged downtime and diminished system capability.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a video surveillance system with auto-executable functions (AEFs) in security cameras that can backup settings, reset to default configurations, reboot, and restore user-defined settings, as well as detect faults, create diagnostic reports, and wirelessly transmit and install software patches to resolve issues autonomously or with mobile device assistance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual troubleshooting and truck rolls are used to resolve video camera faults, then technicians can diagnose and fix issues, but the system experiences prolonged downtime and high maintenance costs
Solution Approach 1:
The video camera system performs self-diagnosis and self-repair through automated fault detection algorithms that identify issues without human intervention. The system automatically executes troubleshooting routines, updates firmware, and restores functionality, enabling the camera to service itself and eliminate the need for manual truck rolls.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary fault detection and diagnostic actions before actual failures occur. By continuously monitoring camera parameters and predicting potential issues, the system can proactively resolve problems before they cause downtime, maintaining continuous surveillance availability.
2Reliability
If manual troubleshooting and truck rolls are used to resolve video camera faults, then technicians can diagnose and fix issues, but maintenance becomes expensive and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The video camera system performs self-diagnosis and self-repair through automated fault detection algorithms that identify issues without human intervention. The system automatically executes troubleshooting routines, updates firmware, and restores functionality, enabling the camera to service itself and eliminate the need for manual truck rolls.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical troubleshooting processes with automated electronic and software-based systems. Fault detection, diagnosis, and repair functions that previously required physical technician intervention are substituted with automated algorithms, remote communication systems, and electronic firmware updates.
3Reliability
If video cameras are monitored manually, then operators can detect faults, but the large number of cameras makes monitoring tedious and expensive
Solution Approach 1:
Each video camera is equipped with self-diagnostic capabilities that automatically detect and report faults without requiring external monitoring. The cameras perform self-checks on their own operational parameters, eliminating the need for complex centralized monitoring systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring function is segmented and distributed to individual camera units rather than centralized in a complex monitoring system. Each camera independently monitors its own status and communicates only when necessary, simplifying the overall system architecture.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems for resolving one or more faults in a security camera include installing an Auto-Executable Function (AEF) on the security camera. The AEF causes the controller to backup the set of user defined configuration settings to a memory of the security camera, reset the security camera back to the set of default configuration settings, reboot the security camera, and restore the set of user defined configuration settings. In many cases, this will resolve many unresolved faults within video camera and place the video camera back online. When this does not resolve a fault, the AEF creates a diagnostic report, wirelessly transmits the diagnostic report to a mobile device of a user, the mobile device identifies a software patch for resolving the fault, and the software patch is uploaded and installed on the security camera.