Collaborative gateway

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• identifying a web server from a gateway coupled to a security device, the web server comprising a management application configured to communicate with the gateway, the management application having a service manager module to enable additional services from the gateway and the security device;
• aggregating monitoring data from the security device coupled to the gateway and from other security devices respectively coupled to other gateways that are correlated with the gateway by the web server;
• communicating with a client device introduced by the web server by sending the aggregated monitoring data to the client device, and receiving a request from the client device to control the security device coupled to the gateway and the other security devices coupled to the other gateways from a web-based user interface at the client device;
• interfacing the gateway with the client device with an application programming interface (API);
• monitoring and controlling the security device coupled to the gateway with an application module;
• enabling of the application module with the corresponding security device with a device driver;
• receiving at the gateway additional APIs, respective application modules, and respective device drivers;
• correlating the gateway with the other gateways by the web server;
• copying a configuration of the gateway to the other gateways;
• authenticating a user at the client device based on a user profile of the user with a user authentication module of the communication module of the gateway;
• limiting or granting the user at the client device access to the security device with a user access policy module of the communication module of the gateway;
• authenticating a communication between the gateway and the web server with a web server authentication module of the communication module of the gateway;
• enabling peer-to-peer communication between gateways, the client device, and the web server with a transport module of the communication module of the gateway;
• analyzing audio, video, and data from the security device and generating events based on the analysis with an analytics module of the remote device management module of the gateway;
• aggregating events generated from the analytics module with an event aggregation module of the remote device management module of the gateway;
• communicating a command to the security device of the corresponding gateway based on an event identified in the aggregated events based on an event configuration with an event-based control module of the remote device management module of the gateway;
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• communicating a command to the security device of the corresponding gateway based on a command communicated from the client device with a client-based control module of the remote device management module of the gateway.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, comprising:

• identifying a web server from a gateway coupled to a security device,
• the web server comprising a management application configured to communicate with the gateway, the management application having a service manager module to enable additional services from the gateway and the security device;
• aggregating monitoring data from the security device coupled to the gateway and from other security devices respectively coupled to other gateways that are correlated with the gateway by the web server;
• communicating with a client device introduced by the web server by sending the aggregated monitoring data to the client device, and receiving a request from the client device to control the security device coupled to the gateway and the other security devices coupled to the other gateways from a web-based user interface at the client device;
• interfacing the gateway with the client device with an application programming interface (API);
• monitoring and controlling the security device coupled to the gateway with an application module;
• enabling of the application module with the corresponding security device with a device driver;
• receiving at the gateway additional APIs, respective application modules, and respective device drivers;
• correlating the gateway with the other gateways by the web server;
• copying a configuration of the gateway to the other gateways;
• authenticating a user at the client device based on a user profile of the user with a user authentication module of the communication module of the gateway;
• limiting or granting the user at the client device access to the security device with a user access policy module of the communication module of the gateway;
• authenticating a communication between the gateway and the web server with a web server authentication module of the communication module of the gateway;
• enabling peer-to-peer communication between gateways, the client device, and the web server with a transport module of the communication module of gateway;
• analyzing audio, video, and data from the security device and generating events based on the analysis with an analytics module of the remote device management module of the gateway;
• aggregating events generated from the analytics module with an event aggregation module of the remote device management module of the gateway;
• communicating a command to the security device of the corresponding gateway based on an event identified in the aggregated events based on an event configuration with an event-based control module of the remote device management module of the gateway;
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• communicating a command to the security device of the corresponding gateway based on a command communicated from the client device with a client-based control module of the remote device management module of the gateway.