Integrating wireless communications in a camera to extend an enterprise network
AssigneeJohnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
InventorsGeorge MARSHALL, Terence NEILL
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Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a wireless communications gateway at a camera. The gateway camera can transmit wireless signals to advertise a wireless communication functionality of the camera, establish, with a device, a wireless connection for communicating with the device, receive, from the device, wireless communications including data for forwarding over an enterprise network, and forward, via a different connection, the data over the enterprise network. The other device can be a camera as well, or substantially any device that can wirelessly communicate with the gateway camera.
Claims18
A camera for providing video within a building, comprising:
- a memory for storing wireless communications received from a device, wherein the device is an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device;
- an input module, including a lens, for capturing video;
- a communications module for sending the captured video, captured by the input module via the lens, over an enterprise network;
- and
- a transceiver for communicating with the device, the transceiver configured for:
- establishing a wireless connection with the device using a wireless communication technology;
- and
- receiving the wireless communications from the device via the wireless connection and storing the wireless communications in the memory,
- wherein the communications module forwards, over the enterprise network and using a message queue telemetry transport (MQTT) protocol, the wireless communications from the device, as stored in the memory, along with another message.
8-9. (canceled)
A method for providing a wireless communications gateway at a camera, comprising:
- capturing video via a lens of the camera;
- sending, by the camera, the captured video over an enterprise network;
- transmitting, by the camera, wireless signals to advertise a wireless communication functionality of the camera;
- establishing, by the camera and with a device, a wireless connection for communicating with the device, wherein the device is an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device;
- receiving, by the camera and from the device, wireless communications including data for forwarding over the enterprise network;
- storing the data in a memory of the camera;
- and
- forwarding, by the camera and via a different connection over the enterprise network and using a message queue telemetry transport (MQTT) protocol, the data, as stored in the memory, along with another message.
17-18. (canceled)
A camera for providing video within a building, comprising:
- an input module for capturing video;
- and
- a transceiver for communicating with a second camera, wherein the second camera is configured for sending separate video captured by the second camera over an enterprise network, the transceiver configured for:
- establishing a wireless connection with the second camera using a wireless communication technology;
- and
- transmitting the video in wireless communications to the second camera via the wireless connection for forwarding over the enterprise network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.