Surveillance apparatus and method for wireless mesh network

A method for viewing an image source from a surveillance system, the method comprising:

• providing a wireless interface unit;
• providing a wireless viewing node;
• wirelessly interfacing the wireless interface unit with the wireless viewing node;
• providing an access unit;
• allowing, via the access unit, an authorized party at the wireless viewing node access to a tiling of surveillance images representative of content captured by cameras in the surveillance system via wireless communications that traverse a wireless mesh network connection, the tiling of surveillance images adaptively provided to the authorized party based on the relative locations of the cameras;
• displaying, at the wireless viewing node, available surveillance systems for a user to select according to a display criteria;
• and
• responsive to selection of an available surveillance system, enabling wireless access to the surveillance system.

A wireless interface device that services wireless communications between an associated wireless viewing node and a video surveillance network, the wireless interface device comprising:

• a wireless interface unit that wirelessly communicates with other wireless nodes through the wireless communications, wherein the wireless communications traverse a wireless mesh network connection;
• an access unit in communication with the wireless interface unit, the access unit operable to provide and receive content, through the wireless interface unit and under the direction of an external management console;
• wherein the access unit is operable to provide, under the direction of the management console, a tiling of surveillance images representative of content captured by a first camera associated with the wireless viewing node;
• and
• wherein the access unit is operable to receive, under the direction of the management console, surveillance images representative of content captured by a second camera associated with another wireless viewing node, wherein the surveillance images representative of the content captured by at least the first and second cameras are tiled and wherein the tiling of the surveillance images is done adaptively based on the relative locations of the cameras.

A wireless network that wirelessly extends a surveillance system, the wireless network comprising:

• wireless communications, wherein the wireless communications traverse a wireless mesh network connection;
• a first wireless interface device associated with a first wireless viewing node, the first wireless interface device in communication with a first camera;
• a second wireless interface device associated with a second wireless viewing node, the second wireless interface device in communication with a second camera;
• a management console, the management console operable to provide control and command of the wireless communications;
• wherein the management console is operable to coordinate access of content captured by the first and second cameras to the first and second wireless interface devices;
• wherein the first wireless interface device is operable to provide, under the direction of the management console, surveillance images representative of content captured by the first camera;
• wherein the first wireless interface device is operable to receive, under the direction of the management console, surveillance images representative of content captured by the second camera;
• and
• wherein at least one of the first and second wireless interface devices are operable to provide the surveillance images in a tiled manner, the tiling of the surveillance images adaptively provided according to the locations of the cameras.