Networked UAV and Camera Coordination for Neighborhood Surveillance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current security and automation systems lack effective integration of networked security cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for real-time monitoring and response to events, particularly in neighborhood settings, leading to inefficiencies in surveillance and alert dissemination.
Innovation Solution
A networked system where security cameras, including UAVs, are integrated to share data and coordinate actions based on user requests and event triggers, allowing UAVs to capture and transmit video footage, and dispatch alerts to users and law enforcement, with features like facial recognition and geographic proximity-based data sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If security cameras and UAVs are networked together for real-time monitoring, then surveillance effectiveness and response capability are improved, but system complexity and coordination requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple security cameras and UAVs into a unified networked system, allowing them to share data and coordinates through a common communication infrastructure. This merging enables centralized coordination while maintaining individual device functionality, resolving the contradiction between improved surveillance effectiveness and increased system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The networked system provides multi-functional capabilities including real-time monitoring, data sharing, coordinate transmission, and coordinated response actions. Each device can serve multiple purposes within the network, reducing overall system complexity while enhancing surveillance reliability through versatile operational capabilities.
2Area of stationary object
If UAVs are deployed for neighborhood monitoring, then coverage area and response speed are improved, but energy consumption and operational costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic monitoring where UAVs are deployed based on detected events rather than continuous operation. When a security camera detects an incident, it transmits coordinates to the UAV, which then periodically monitors the area of interest. This periodic action expands monitoring coverage while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to continuous UAV operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The networked system enables self-service operation where security cameras automatically detect events and trigger UAV deployment without manual intervention. The system autonomously manages energy consumption by activating UAVs only when necessary, based on real-time detection data from the camera network, thereby optimizing the balance between coverage area and energy use.
Data Source
AI summary
Apparatuses, techniques, and methods for a security and/or automation system are described. In some cases, methods may include receiving, from a first device, a request to capture data during an identified time period at a first location, determining that a mobile camera device and the first device are part of a predetermined group of devices operating in a neighborhood network, capturing the data using the mobile camera device at the first location, and transmitting the data to the first device. In some cases, the first device comprises a stationary device and the mobile camera device comprises an unmanned air vehicle.