Surveillance Retrofit Module for Traffic Profiling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing surveillance systems deployed for security and monitoring purposes are not easily leveraged for traffic profiling, failing to generate revenue from the data they collect, and lack the ability to be used for multiple purposes beyond their initial deployment.
Innovation Solution
An infrastructure that retrofits existing surveillance systems with dedicated hardware profiling modules, allowing them to capture and process traffic data, which can be configured and filtered for various uses, enabling revenue generation and multi-purpose utilization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If surveillance systems are deployed for security purposes only, then security monitoring capability is improved, but system versatility and revenue generation capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a multi-functional surveillance system that simultaneously performs security monitoring and traffic profiling functions. The system processes video feeds to detect both security events (intrusions, suspicious activities) and traffic patterns (vehicle counts, speeds, directions) using the same camera infrastructure, thereby achieving multiple purposes from a single deployment and improving system versatility without compromising security capabilities
2Measurement precision
If dedicated hardware profiling modules are added to existing surveillance systems, then traffic profiling capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates traffic profiling functionality within the existing surveillance system architecture by nesting processing modules that analyze video feeds already being captured for security purposes. The system embeds traffic detection algorithms within the existing video processing pipeline, allowing traffic data extraction without requiring completely separate hardware systems, thus improving profiling capability while limiting complexity growth through efficient resource sharing
3Loss of information
If surveillance systems process and store all captured data, then data completeness is improved, but data management complexity and storage costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential traffic profiling data elements (vehicle counts, speeds, directions, timestamps) from the complete video feeds, storing this processed information separately from the raw video data. This selective extraction approach maintains data completeness for profiling purposes while significantly reducing storage requirements and management complexity compared to archiving all captured video content
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AI summary
An acquisition content profiling device (ACPD) comprises a power module, a controller module, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) module. The ACPD has a terminal that receives a signal from an acquisition content system having an enclosure. For example, the acquisition content system is an analog video camera system, and the ACPD fits within the enclosure and is powered entirely via the video camera system. The ACPD receives acquired content from the video camera system via the analog terminal. The ADC module converts the acquired content into a digital signal, and the digital signal is supplied onto the controller module. The controller module has dedicated hardware that detects motion, detects features according to a feature profile (such as license plate information), segments the acquired content to protect private information, marks the acquired content with identifying information of the owner of acquired content, and distributes the processed content to a third-party.