Plataforma abierta de gestión de cámaras IP y aplicaciones móviles para la seguridad civil ciudadana

Abstract

Insecurity is a problem affecting many cities in the world. Most developed cities are using video surveillance systems to fight crime, mounting huge monitoring centers with hundreds of cameras. Many of these centers have people observing cameras in order to detect suspicious situations. However, this is not enough and public governments must deal with a social demand for more transparency and efficiency in actions against crime. In this context, a camera and sensor management platform to support comprehensive security management is presented. This platform complements automated video analysis techniques with a communicational API for recording alarms or alerts from applications. It also allows real-time access to protection forces (police, fire brigades, and neighborhoods) to resources such as maps and videos. All of the information is centralized in a georeferenced system organized in different layers, and based on an open and scalable architecture with a role access system. This paper depicts typical challenges and problems of this kind of systems introducing a proposed structure and algorithms used for both monitoring and detecting events. Finally, preliminary results of implanting this platform in a real scenario are presented.