Application of A Remote Surveillance System with Mobile Phone-Enhanced User Interface

A surveillance system has been developed to apply into many fields. Services of the system are available for clients with not only PCs but also mobile devices, especially cellular phones. Our system will provide remote monitoring facilities as well as remote controlling ones. With services of remote controlling camera, clients can take a suitable look at target objects through adjustment of network camera. The system is evaluated on the viewpoint of response time between server of the system and cellular phone of mobile client. Both of remote monitoring facility and controlling one are measured so that they will be suitable enough for clients to operate their appliances by means of remote controlling facility after they take looks at external states of the target appliances. Applications of our surveillance system is reported such as remote monitoring service of school for distant parents and remote reservation service of stores for daily customers. With our surveillance system, the above applications will be useful and fruitful for customers as well as employer of system, namely, service provider of those applications.