Wearable Camera With Automatic Cloud Upload for Secure Evidence
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consumers lack convenient and secure methods for capturing and storing video evidence during incidents, as smartphones are inconvenient to use and vulnerable to loss or theft, complicating personal security needs.
Innovation Solution
A wearable digital camera device with a light source, transceiver, and memory that automatically captures, transmits, and deletes images, using a distributed computing system for secure cloud storage, ensuring images are not accessible to the user and only available to authorized law enforcement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If smartphones are used to capture video during incidents, then video recording capability is available, but convenience deteriorates due to handholding requirements and risk of loss or theft
Solution Approach 1:
The system separates the video capture function from the user's personal device. The wearable camera captures video independently, then transfers it to a remote server, dividing the functionality across multiple components to eliminate the need for handholding while maintaining security.
Solution Approach 2:
A remote server acts as an intermediary between the wearable camera and the user. The server receives, stores, and manages video footage, eliminating the need for the user to physically possess or secure the recording device or its contents.
2Reliability
If video is stored locally on the smartphone, then immediate access is possible, but security deteriorates due to vulnerability to loss or theft
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically uploading video footage to a remote server immediately after capture. This pre-positioning of video data on a secure remote server ensures both security and rapid access when needed, eliminating the security risks of local storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The video data is copied from the wearable camera's limited storage to a remote server's storage system. This creates a redundant copy that is both secure (protected by server security measures) and easily accessible, while the original remains on the wearable device.
3Reliability
If continuous video recording is performed, then evidence availability is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of continuous recording, the system uses periodic or event-triggered recording at predetermined intervals or upon detecting specific conditions. This reduces energy consumption while maintaining adequate evidence availability by capturing critical moments without wasting power on continuous operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The wearable camera automatically manages its own operation, making recording decisions based on pre-programmed criteria without requiring user intervention. The device self-regulates power consumption by activating only when needed, extending battery life while ensuring evidence is captured when events occur.
Data Source
AI summary
A wearable lit camera linked to a mobile device app that automatically loads images to cloud storage to deter criminal activity is disclosed. In one embodiment, A camera device comprises a digital camera, an outwardly facing light source that is communicatively coupled to a control unit, a short-range transceiver communicatively coupled to the control unit, a volatile memory coupled to the control unit, and a non-volatile memory coupled to the control unit and storing a control program which, when executed using the control unit, causes the control unit to execute illuminating the light source, capturing a digital image via the digital camera and storing the digital image in the volatile memory, transmitting the digital image via the short-range transceiver to a mobile computing device, deleting the digital image from the volatile memory, and after a time delay, repeating the capturing, storing, transmitting, and deleting. Use of the short-range transceiver is optional, and other embodiments can use cellular transceivers to upload images directly to the cloud.