Virtual Control Room Replication for Remote Surveillance Collaboration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Facility managers face challenges in monitoring and collaborating with control room operators remotely due to the lack of visual access and practicality of traveling to multiple facilities, especially when managing multiple building control systems like security and surveillance systems.
Innovation Solution
A virtual reality system that allows facility managers to access and control video surveillance systems from a remote location using a virtual reality headset, which replicates the video wall display and provides an audio channel for communication, enabling concurrent viewing and manipulation of video streams and camera controls.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the facility manager travels to the control room to monitor and collaborate, then visual access to monitors and direct collaboration is achieved, but time consumption and practicality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the control room environment using virtual reality technology. The video wall and monitors are replicated in the virtual space, allowing the facility manager to view the same visual information as if physically present in the control room, thereby eliminating the need for travel while maintaining full visual access.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual reality system acts as an intermediary between the facility manager and the control room. Instead of direct physical presence, the VR environment mediates the interaction by transmitting video streams and enabling collaborative communication, thus providing remote access without time loss.
2Ease of operation
If the facility manager uses phone to discuss events with operators, then communication is achieved, but visual access to monitors deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges audio communication capabilities with visual display capabilities in the virtual reality environment. The facility manager can both hear operators through audio channels and see the monitor displays through the VR video wall, combining the benefits of phone communication with visual access into a single integrated system.
3Loss of time
If the facility manager remotely accesses video streams, then time consumption is reduced, but immersion and interaction experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from two-dimensional flat screen viewing to three-dimensional immersive virtual reality. By placing the facility manager inside a virtual control room environment with spatial audio and multi-angle camera views, the system provides depth and spatial context that enhances immersion and interaction while maintaining remote access efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
A video surveillance system includes a plurality of video surveillance cameras each for producing a corresponding video stream, a server configured to receive and store the video streams, and a first control room having a video wall. The video wall may be operatively coupled to the server and may be configured to concurrently display two or more of the video streams from two or more of the plurality of video surveillance cameras in a first arrangement. The video surveillance system may further include a remote virtual reality headset with a display and a virtual reality controller operatively coupled to the virtual reality headset and the server. The virtual reality controller may be configured to receive the same two or more video streams that are displayed on the video wall in the first control room and display them in the virtual reality headset.