Remote surveillance and intervention using wireless phone
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsShze Chew Lee, Andrew M. Gutman
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Abstract
A mobile surveillance appliance receives sensed data over a wireless link from a remote sensing post which monitors a remotely monitored space having a predefined spatial location and transmits the sensed data. The mobile surveillance appliance provides a display of the sensed data from monitored space and an intervention controller which, when activated responsive to an event perceived on the display, encodes the predefined spatial location and an event melioration onto a remote intervention request, and transmits the intervention request to a remote intervener. The remote sensing post, mobile surveillance appliance, and remote intervener may communicate using SIP messaging.
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A mobile communications appliance, comprising:
- a first transceiver configured to receive sensed data from a remote sensing post over a first wireless link, wherein the sensed data is representative of a remotely monitored space having a predefined spatial location;
- a display coupled to the first transceiver and adapted to transform the sensed data into a perceivable representation of the remotely monitored space;
- an intervention controller coupled to the display and wherein when activated in response to an event perceived on the display the intervention controller is configured to generate a representation of a unique spatial identifier corresponding to the predefined spatial location of the event in the remotely monitored space, wherein the unique spatial identifier includes geographic coordinates corresponding to the predefined spatial location, the intervention controller is configured to select an event melioration corresponding to the event, and the intervention controller is configured to generate a remote intervention request corresponding to the predefined spatial location and the event melioration;
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- a second transceiver configured to transmit the remote intervention request to a remote intervener over a second wireless link in response to the intervention controller being activated, wherein the mobile communications appliance is a mobile surveillance appliance.
A mobile surveillance method, comprising:
- a. receiving a remote intervention request in an outbound intervention message from a mobile surveillance appliance, wherein the remote intervention request corresponds to a perceived event represented on the mobile surveillance appliance, and wherein at least a portion of the receiving includes receiving over a wireless link coupled to the mobile surveillance appliance;
- b. determining a predefined spatial location of a remotely monitored space for the perceived event from geographic coordinates included with a unique spatial identifier contained within the remote intervention request;
- c. determining a selected remote intervention corresponding to an event perceived in the remotely monitored space from the remote intervention request.
A mobile surveillance system, comprising:
- a. a remote sensing post configured to sense data representative of a predefined remotely monitored space corresponding to a unique spatial location, and coupled to a packetized data network capable of transmitting the sensed data from a fixed wireless access point using a wireless link;
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- b. a mobile surveillance appliance configured to receive the sensed data from the fixed wireless access point using a first wireless link configured according to an IEEE 802.11 wireless communication protocol, wherein the mobile surveillance appliance is configured to provide a perceivable representation of the sensed data, wherein the mobile surveillance appliance is configured to determine the unique spatial location corresponding to the sensed data from geographic coordinates contained in a unique spatial identifier, wherein responsive to an event determined from a perceivable representation of the sensed data the mobile surveillance appliance is configured to a generate a remote intervention request having encoded thereon the unique spatial location corresponding to the sensed data, wherein the remote intervention request include an event melioration corresponding to the event, and wherein the mobile surveillance appliance is capable of transmitting the remote intervention request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.