Mobile surveillance unit

A surveillance system to monitor deployments of fluid-handling devices, comprising:

• one or more remote computers operative to:
• remotely receive and store data describing operation of a fluid-handling device from a fluid sensor monitoring operation of the fluid-handling device;
• and
• send the an indication of the data describing operation of the fluid-handling device to a user in response to a request from a computing device of the user;
• and
• send instructions by which the user computing device of the user obtains video from a wireless modem coupled to a camera co-located with the fluid-handling device;
• wherein:
• the one or more remote computers are remote from the camera and from the computing device of the user;
• sending instructions by which the user computing device of the user obtains the video comprises sending instructions to the computing device of the user to establish a peer-to-peer connection with the wireless modem by which an instance of the video is transmitted from the camera to the computing device of the user without at least part of the instance of video sent to the computing device of the user passing through the one or more remote computers;
• a wireless access point coupled to the wireless modem and operative to provide a local area wireless network via the wireless modem;
• and
• one or more processors and memory coupled to the wireless access point, wherein the memory stores instructions operative to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a request to access the local area network from a mobile device collocated with the fluid-handling device;
• authenticating the collocated mobile device by determining that the collocated mobile device is associated with a data access account;
• granting access to the local area network in response to authenticating the collocated mobile device
• measuring an amount of data conveyed via a plurality of collocated computing devices associated with the data access account;
• and
• sending the amount of measured data to the one or more remote computers with an identifier of the data access account,
• wherein:
• the one or more remote computers comprises memory storing instructions that when executed cause the one or more remote computers to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a request from a plurality of different user devices for video from the camera;
• receiving a single copy of the video from the camera via the wireless modem and the Internet;
• creating multiple copies of the video;
• and
• sending respective instances of the multiple copies of the video to each of the different user devices;
• and
• the one or more remote computers are operative to send one or more web interfaces to the computing device of the user by which the user controls the camera and the fluid-handling device.

A surveillance system to monitor deployments of fluid-handling devices, comprising:

• a trailer having wheels, and a mast, where:
• the mast is made of a non-conductive material;
• the mast comprises a lightening receiver configured to be deployed at a distal portion of the mast and configured to be coupled to a conductive path to a grounding conductor securable to the ground;
• and
• the mast is configured to be in a deployed position and a transport position, different from the deployed position, during transport;
• a camera coupled to the mast;
• a wireless modem communicatively coupled to the camera and operative to transmit video captured by the camera;
• one or more remote computers operative to remotely receive and store data describing operation of a fluid-handling device collocated with the trailer and to send instructions by which a user computing device of the user obtains the video and an indication of the data describing operation of the fluid-handling device to a user in response to a request from the computing device of the user,
• wherein:
• sending instructions by which a user computing device of the user obtains the video comprises sending instructions to the computing device of the user to establish a peer-to-peer connection with the wireless modem by which an instance of the video is transmitted from the camera to the computing device of the user without at least part of the instance of video sent to the computing device of the user passing through the one or more remote computers;
• a wireless access point coupled to the wireless modem and operative to provide a local area wireless network via the wireless modem;
• and
• one or more processors and memory coupled to the wireless access point, wherein the memory stores instructions operative to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a request to access the local area network from a mobile device collocated with the fluid-handling device;
• authenticating the collocated mobile device by determining that the collocated mobile device is associated with a data access account;
• and
• granting access to the local area network in response to authenticating the collocated mobile device,
• wherein the one or more remote computers are operative to send one or more web interfaces to the computing device of the user by which the user controls the camera and the fluid-handling device.