Design and implementation of a mobile home surveillance system

Abstract

Abstract Conventional surveillance systems capture real‐time events from cameras mounted at fixed locations. A surveillance user then monitors the occurrences via a browser at a stationary computer. To enhance the mobility at the viewer end and the camera end, we successfully design and implement a remote mobile surveillance system by integrating some inexpensive techniques ‐ an OSGi service platform, which can easily be modified for future applications, a camera mounted on an embedded system which is carried by a robot ‐ Lego MindStorms NXT, and a J2ME based viewer/commander program on a mobile phone. With assistance from modern wireless networks, surveillance users can handily monitor remote events in a wider viewing range anytime and anywhere.