Smart Security Floodlight with Remote Pan Tilt Zoom Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Outdoor floodlights, even those with security cameras, lack effective deterrent capabilities due to limitations in motion detection, response time, and vulnerability to vandalism, and they often require expensive installation and continuous monitoring.
Innovation Solution
A smart security floodlight system featuring a housing with a capture device, light panels, speakers, a processor, and communication device that can detect objects, change light modes, and transmit video data wirelessly, providing a deterrent response through focused lighting and audio, and can be integrated with drones for enhanced surveillance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a security camera is integrated into an outdoor floodlight, then security monitoring capability is improved, but the device becomes vulnerable to vandalism and cannot be moved to track intruders
Solution Approach 1:
The security camera is made dynamically adjustable through remote controlled pan, tilt, and zoom capabilities, allowing it to track and focus on specific areas of interest in real-time. The camera can be repositioned remotely to follow intruders across a large area, transforming a static monitoring device into a dynamic tracking system that adapts to security needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The floodlight incorporates a high-powered spotlight that activates automatically when motion is detected, creating immediate illumination and deterrence before an intruder can cause damage. The system performs preliminary security actions by detecting motion and instantly deploying lighting and alert mechanisms to prevent vandalism or intrusion.
2Speed
If hard-wired security cameras are used, then high-speed video transmission is achieved, but installation cost increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical hard-wired connection system with a wireless communication system. The security camera transmits video footage wirelessly to a remote viewing device, eliminating the need for complex wiring infrastructure while maintaining real-time monitoring capability. This substitution reduces installation costs and complexity while preserving the speed of video transmission through advanced wireless protocols.
3Ease of manufacture
If security cameras transmit video over Wi-Fi, then installation cost is reduced, but bandwidth limitations reduce camera resolution
Solution Approach 1:
The video transmission system segments the video stream into different quality levels. The camera captures high-resolution video locally, then transmits compressed or lower-resolution versions over Wi-Fi to reduce bandwidth requirements. This segmentation allows the system to maintain high-resolution capability for local processing while using wireless communication for remote viewing, balancing resolution and installation ease.
4Device complexity
If static security cameras are used, then device complexity is reduced, but the ability to examine troubling areas and track intruders is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The security camera system performs self-service through automatic motion detection and remote controlled positioning. When motion is detected, the system automatically adjusts the camera angle and activates the spotlight without requiring manual intervention. This self-service capability adds tracking functionality while keeping the overall system relatively simple by automating the most complex operations.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system offers a preventative and deterring security solution that can automatically detect and respond to intruders, reduce false positives, and provide effective surveillance with reduced monitoring costs, while being vandal-resistant and capable of streaming high-resolution video.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of light panels configured to illuminate an area
Implementation Method 2
a capture device configured to generate video data of an area
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus includes a capture device, a light, a processor and a communication device. The capture device may be configured to generate high resolution video frames of an area below a level of the apparatus. The light may be configured to illuminate the area in a first mode and focus a light beam on a target in a second mode. The processor may be configured to perform video analysis on the high resolution video frames to detect objects, change the light to the second mode by identifying the target from the objects detected, perform digital pan, zoom and tilt operations on the high resolution video frames and crop the high resolution video frames to a low resolution video frame using the operations. The communication device may be configured to receive the low resolution video frame from the processor and transmit the low resolution video frame to a user device.