Enterprise management system and auditing method employed thereby
AssigneeSentry Technology Corp.
InventorsPeter Trenciansky, Peter L. Murdoch
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Abstract
An auditing method comprises controlling at least one camera device at least at one facility to cause the at least one camera to acquire at least one image of a designated region within the at least one facility; at a remote location, comparing the acquired at least one image of the designated region to a desired standard; and completing an audit report based on the results of the comparing.
Claims44
An auditing method comprising:
- controlling at least one camera device at least at one facility to cause the at least one camera to acquire at least one image of a designated region within the at least one facility;
- at a remote location, comparing the acquired at least one image of the designated region to a desired standard;
- and
- completing an audit report based on the results of the comparing.
An auditing method comprising:
- receiving electronic audit requests from internal and/or external users of a multi-facility enterprise;
- aggregating audit requests that relate to common facilities into individual audits;
- assigning electronically each of said audits to one or more individuals of an audit group specified for said audit;
- and
- assigning viewing access rights to the one or more individuals of the audit group, the viewing access rights determining when the one or more individuals are able to access video feeds from camera devices in the facilities to complete the audits.
An auditing method comprising:
- using a video surveillance system at one or more facilities to capture images of one or more product displays;
- and
- comparing the captured images with reference material to evaluate product display compliance.
An apparatus configured to establish communications between at least one client and a video surveillance system at one or more facilities, said apparatus further configured to signal a video surveillance system to capture images of one or more product displays and provide the captured images to the at least one client for comparison with reference material to evaluate product display compliance.
A method comprising:
- providing multiple users with access to at least one surveillance system at one or more facilities to allow said users to view video captured by the at least one surveillance system and to control video equipment thereof;
- and
- controlling access of said users so that users performing priority tasks are given access to the at least one surveillance system over other users.
An apparatus configured to establish communications between a plurality of clients and at least one surveillance system at one or more target facilities to enable clients performing tasks to view video and control video equipment of said at least one surveillance system, said apparatus being further configured to assign priority rights thereby to ensure clients performing higher priority tasks have preference over clients performing lower priority tasks.
A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a computer program, said computer program comprising:
- program code for causing a camera device of a video surveillance system to capture one or more images of a product display;
- and
- program code for comparing each captured image with reference material to evaluate product display compliance.
A video surveillance controller configured to:
- allow cameras linked to user access rights to be selected;
- represent the locations of the cameras on a displayed floor plan map, areas of the floor plan being linked to preprogrammed camera views;
- and
- provide access to camera views in response to selection of the camera representations on the floor map.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.