A Mobile Phone-Enhanced Remote Surveillance System with Electric Power Appliance Control and Network Camera Homing

Abstract

We have developed an remote surveillance system, which is organized with an integrated web/mail server, network cameras, remote control devices and web-based clients. Some kinds of devices can be used as our clients including, for example, high-performance mobile phone, which are equipped with Java virtual machine and web-browsing facility. Our integrated server is designed to play intensive roles of web and e-mail services. It can obtain JPEG images from network cameras, process them, and accumulate them into its database. It can also receive some types of requests from clients, analyze them and perform several kinds of services such as monitoring, controlling and so on. Almost all software of our surveillance system is written in Java programming language, because of easy and powerful description of GUI as well as network programming. With enhanced facilities for mobile phone, our system has been available for many applications.