CN114189659A

CN114189659A - Video monitoring system

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Publication number: CN114189659A
Application number: CN202111558774.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 周琳华; 王强; 李继云; 刘涛; 孙昊
Original assignee: Shanghai Triman Information & Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Triman Information & Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-12-20
Filing date: 2021-12-20
Publication date: 2022-03-15

Abstract

The invention provides a video monitoring system, which comprises a front terminal system, a front terminal system and a video monitoring system, wherein the front terminal system comprises a camera device which is directly accessed to a network to transmit video images; the monitoring center is used for video storage, video display and/or unified management, and comprises a central machine room with a video storage and central management server and a core switch, and/or a control center with a decoding and splicing control device, a display screen and a user terminal. The monitoring center is used for coding equipment management, video monitoring configuration, video monitoring application and video cascade.

Description

Video monitoring system

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of security protection. More particularly, the present invention relates to a video surveillance system.

Background

In the technical field of security protection, with the increase of video monitoring point positions (such as about 10000 paths) and the like, capacity expansion needs to be carried out on a video networking platform so as to meet the requirements of video access, preview and playback.

In the prior art, the information sharing requirements of each subsystem are not fully considered, and each subsystem is not structured and standardized. The lack of linkages between systems makes it difficult to integrate into an organic whole. Therefore, the existing system is not a set of integrated and omnibearing comprehensive security system, and the aim of fully integrating people's air defense, physical defense and technical defense is difficult to achieve. The system is also prone to performance bottlenecks.

Disclosure of Invention

It is an object of the present invention to provide a video surveillance system.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a video monitoring system, including a front end subsystem including a camera device directly accessing a network to transmit a video image; the monitoring center is used for video storage, video display and/or unified management, and comprises a central machine room with a video storage and central management server and a core switch, and/or a control center with a decoding and splicing control device, a display screen and a user terminal.

According to the video monitoring system of the above aspect of the present invention, the front end subsystem selects the camera device form according to the monitoring scene, and includes a bolt for fixing the monitoring scene and having a high requirement on the effect; the hemisphere is used for indoor fixed small-range monitoring; the ball machine is used for monitoring the periphery of the equipment by switching scenes; the tube machine is used for fixing a monitoring scene and has no special requirement on the effect; the eagle eye is used for carrying out panoramic monitoring on surrounding scenes, carrying out close-up monitoring on details in the panoramic scene, and/or selecting the characteristics of camera equipment according to the characteristics of the scenes, carrying out full-color monitoring in a low-illumination environment, and selecting starlight and black light equipment; normally monitoring in a low-illumination environment, and selecting infrared equipment; monitoring a vehicle road and an entrance and an exit at night, and selecting equipment with a strong light inhibition function; deploying equipment with an intelligent acquisition function or deploying and matching equipment at the rear end of intelligent analysis in scenes where faces, human bodies, license plates and vehicles need to be acquired; and (3) monitoring scenes with heavy fog, tree shielding or extremely low illumination, and selecting thermal imaging equipment with an imaging function under severe conditions.

According to the video monitoring system of the above aspect of the present invention, the front terminal system further includes a bracket and a vertical rod, an outdoor chassis, a light supplementing device, a lightning grounding device, and/or a cable.

According to the video monitoring system of the above aspect of the present invention, the monitoring center includes a central storage device, a core switch interacting with the front end subsystem, a video integration platform interacting with the core switch, a display connected to the video integration platform, a client interacting with the central storage device, a central management server, and a monitoring management terminal, and is used for coding device management, video monitoring configuration, video monitoring application, and video cascade.

According to the video monitoring system of the above aspect of the present invention, the monitoring center is used for coding device management, and includes supporting batch import and export of devices, device connection parameter configuration, and addition, deletion, and modification of devices, including supporting synchronization of device names, device serial numbers, and device information from the monitoring center to the devices or from the devices to the monitoring center; the method comprises the steps that the name of a monitoring point is synchronized to equipment from a monitoring center or synchronized to the monitoring center from the equipment; the method supports IP channel configuration of NVR, including adding and deleting a front-end encoder; supporting the operations of adding, deleting, changing and searching monitoring points; supporting parameter configuration of monitoring points, including OSD configuration, video image display channel name, time, date and week; character overlapping configuration, wherein at most 4 character strings are overlapped to a video picture; video parameter configuration, code stream type, resolution, code rate type, image quality and video frame rate; privacy protection setting, video shielding alarm configuration, mobile detection configuration and video loss alarm configuration; and/or the configuration of the alarm is supported, and the configuration comprises the increasing, deleting, checking operation and alarm input and output configuration of the alarm so as to realize the applications of real-time monitoring, video playback, picture inquiry, television wall and the like.

According to the video monitoring system of the above aspect of the invention, the monitoring center is used for video monitoring configuration, including central storage management and configuration, supporting centralized management of central storage resources, adopting cloud storage CVM, the central storage management including physical resource management, storage domain management and storage resource pool management, wherein the physical resource management supports operations of adding, deleting, modifying and searching of the cloud storage of the central storage device, and supports import of the device; the method comprises the steps of supporting storage equipment state display, including an online state, a storage capacity, a residual capacity, a channel access path number, a CPU utilization rate and a memory utilization rate; the disk information and state check of the storage equipment are supported; the storage domain management supports the operations of adding, deleting, modifying and searching the storage domain and stores the storage domain in the cloud storage domain; the cloud storage is used for managing cloud storage resources, and one cloud storage domain is intelligently associated with one cloud storage resource; supporting the stored state display, including the domain type, the number of devices, the total capacity and the residual capacity; the resource pool management supports the operation of adding, deleting, changing and searching the resource pool; and the state display of the resource pool is supported, and comprises a storage state, a resource pool type, a utilization rate and an access path number.

According to the video monitoring system of the above aspect of the present invention, the monitoring center is used for video schedule configuration, and includes central storage and monitoring point video storage of equipment storage; supporting the display of a monitoring video plan, wherein the display comprises a storage state, a storage position and a video plan template type; supporting batch copying of the video plan, displaying the copying progress of the video plan by batch copying, and displaying the total plan number and the finished number; supporting equipment storage, wherein the code stream type can be selected from a main code stream or a sub code stream; and the configuration of the storage time length of the video is supported, and the storage time length is selected. The device storage supports simultaneous storage of video and audio recordings; supporting a center to store, selecting a main code stream or a sub code stream according to the type of the stored code stream, and selecting a direct-connected device to access a stream or accessing the stream through a device DAC (digital-to-analog converter) in a stream access mode; the video plan configuration detail configuration comprises video plan template configuration support, wherein the video plan template configuration support comprises an all-weather storage template, a working day storage template and a weekend template by default, and the video plan template self-definition support; the method supports the export of the video plan details of all monitoring points in the system; the snapshot plan configuration is used for configuring the snapshot frequency and time point of the monitoring point when the monitoring point is subjected to picture monitoring or the front end is subjected to snapshot retention record, and the snapshot plan configuration comprises the support of adding, deleting and modifying the snapshot plan of the monitoring point; and the method supports the snapshot according to two plan types of time periods and time points. The time interval of the grab can be customized according to the time period of the grab, and the time interval can be selected within 24 hours; the time points of the drawing of each week can be defined by drawing at time intervals; supporting the configuration of a grapple plan template, wherein the grapple plan template comprises a time period template and a time point template; supporting the configuration of the quality of the grabbing graph, selecting general, better or best; media configuration, which is used for performing unified management scheduling on all media resources and performing media positioning, including the current-level preview playback, and is used for the preview of the current-level monitoring point and the stream fetching configuration of the equipment storage playback; the cascade preview playback is used for the preview and playback streaming configuration of the cascade monitoring points; the central storage playback is used for the central storage playback stream fetching configuration of the current-level monitoring point; code stream transfer processing is used for cross-network transfer and format conversion of the code stream of the mobile terminal; media scheduling, which comprises supporting automatic matching of an optimal media link according to a media intelligent scheduling strategy and a media load balancing condition to provide an optimal media stream taking path; the device event arming and disarming system is used for carrying out batch arming and disarming management on the universal events reported by the devices, and comprises batch arming and batch disarming control supporting mobile detection, video loss, video shielding, alarm input and alarm output events; supporting the batch configuration of an event arming and disarming plan for monitoring points; supporting the configuration of a defense deployment and withdrawal plan template; and supporting the exhibition of the arming and disarming states of the events of the monitoring points, including the arming plan type and the arming and disarming states.

According to the video monitoring system of the above aspect of the invention, the monitoring center is also used for video monitoring applications, including video real-time preview, including basic video preview, video parameter control, preview of view mode, real-time talkback of the monitoring center and the camera talkback channel where the monitoring point is located, batch broadcasting, and real-time pan-tilt control of the monitoring point with pan-tilt capability; the basic video preview is used for supporting the WEB browser and the CS client to preview real-time pictures of the monitoring points in a video control mode; direct connection preview and non-direct connection preview switching are supported; the configuration of the number of the reconnection times and the reconnection time interval is supported; a video decoding mode supporting hard solution and software switching; opening intelligent rules including warning lines and regions when previewing is supported; supporting the layout switching of a video playing window; supporting auxiliary screen preview; supporting double-click area nodes to check all monitoring points in the area, wherein the display number of the monitoring points is the current window segmentation number; the method supports batch closing of preview windows, window self-adaption and full-screen playing; the monitoring point previewing picture is supported to carry out operations of picture capture, sound opening/closing, electronic amplification, main and sub code stream switching and code stream information checking; supporting a monitoring point to preview toolbar definition configuration; the method supports picture monitoring on the monitoring points configured with the snap plans; supporting emergency video recording in a video preview picture for recording and proving abnormal problems; the method supports instant playback in real-time preview, and is used for quickly confirming when abnormal conditions are found in preview; supporting time-limited preview, or restarting countdown when selecting continuous preview; supporting the grouped polling of the monitoring points, performing polling display on the video pictures of the monitoring points according to a preset polling time interval, a sequence of the monitoring points in polling groups and a default window layout, and supporting polling group management, including adding, deleting polling groups, adjusting time intervals and a polling sequence of the monitoring points; the view preview comprises the steps of supporting the storage of the corresponding relation between the monitoring points and the playing window in a view form and the layout format of the window, and performing the grouping management and the rapid preview of the monitoring points by using the view; supporting view management with a common view and a private view; supporting view management configuration, including management of view groups, adding, deleting, moving positions of views, modifying monitoring points of the views and layout of windows in the view groups; the control of the pan-tilt and the video parameters comprises the support of pan-tilt control on a monitoring point with a pan-tilt function; in the monitoring preview state, the direction of the cradle head is controlled by opening the cradle head or clicking a cradle head control button of a monitoring point preview toolbar; the control of multiplying power, the adjustment of a focus and an aperture, the control of light, the control of a windshield wiper, one-key focusing and 3D amplification are realized through the control support of a holder; supporting the setting and starting of a prefabrication point, and carrying out cruise path setting and prefabrication point cruise control according to the set prefabrication point; track recording and track playing are supported; supporting the configuration of the grade authority of the holder and the configuration of the operation authority duration of the holder; the method supports the overlapping and displaying of the user information of the operating holder on the video picture; supporting the adjustment of video parameters of monitoring points, including brightness, chroma, contrast and saturation; the video playback is used for inquiring and playing the historical video, controlling the picture flow and downloading the segments, comprises basic video playback and is used for supporting two modes of a WEB browser and a CS client, and the historical video picture of the monitoring point is played back in the form of a video control; the method supports inquiry according to the types of videos, and comprises plan video recording, alarm video recording and mobile detection, and other types of videos except the three types are checked when the videos are played; and the inquiry is supported according to the video storage type, and comprises equipment storage and central storage. The method supports the layout switching of a video playback window, and supports the image capture, sound opening/closing, electronic amplification and code stream information check of a video playback picture; the method supports searching videos according to time periods and locating videos according to time points; the method supports the flow control operation of the video playback picture, including forward playing, reverse playing, double-speed reverse playing, slow reverse playing, single frame stepping and single frame stepping backward; the method supports the addition of labels and description information to the video, and can search video clips according to the types, the description information and the marking time range of the labels; the method supports locking and unlocking the video clip, and the locked video time period and the locked time length can be selected; the zooming of the video range of the video progress bar is supported; supporting video playback to start intelligent information, including a warning line and an area; downloading and editing the video, supporting searching, deleting, pausing and continuing operations of the video downloading task, supporting batch downloading starting and all pausing operations of the downloading task, and supporting filtering according to the downloading task state; video clips are supported, single video download/clip size setting is supported.

According to the video monitoring system of the above aspect of the present invention, the monitoring center is further configured to perform a video cascading function, which includes cascading/interconnection among platforms, and provides basic networking functions of registration discovery, heartbeat detection, pan-tilt control, real-time monitoring, and clock synchronization, and/or extended networking functions of directory active push, organizational structure presentation, resource real-time synchronization, resource selective sharing, media keep-alive, and authority control.

According to the video monitoring system in the aspects of the invention, the front-end network high-definition camera, the rear-end high-definition storage device, the video comprehensive platform, the large display screen and the like are organically combined, so that full high-definition and full networking of the whole system are realized, and the advantages of high integration, high intelligence, high reliability, high expansibility, high usability and the like of the system are embodied.

Drawings

FIG. 1 shows a schematic block diagram of an integrated security system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 shows a schematic diagram of a video surveillance system according to one embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic diagram of central storage resource management, according to one embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

While specific embodiments of the invention will be described below, it should be noted that in the course of the detailed description of these embodiments, in order to provide a concise and concise description, all features of an actual implementation may not be described in detail. It should be appreciated that in the development of any such actual implementation, as in any engineering or design project, numerous implementation-specific decisions are made to achieve the developers' specific goals, such as compliance with system-related and business-related constraints, which may vary from one implementation to another. Moreover, it should be appreciated that in the development of any such actual implementation, as in any engineering or design project, numerous implementation-specific decisions must be made to achieve the developers' specific goals, such as compliance with system-related and business-related constraints, which may vary from one implementation to another.

Unless otherwise defined, technical or scientific terms used in the claims and the specification should have the ordinary meaning as understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the invention belongs. The use of "first," "second," and similar terms in the description and claims of the present application do not denote any order, quantity, or importance, but rather the terms are used to distinguish one element from another. The terms "a" or "an," and the like, do not denote a limitation of quantity, but rather denote the presence of at least one. The word "comprise" or "comprises", and the like, means that the element or item listed before "comprises" or "comprising" covers the element or item listed after "comprising" or "comprises" and its equivalent, and does not exclude other elements or items. The terms "connected" or "coupled" and the like are not restricted to physical or mechanical connections, nor are they restricted to direct or indirect connections.

Fig. 1 shows an example of a topological diagram of an integrated security system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The integrated security system 100 as shown in fig. 1 may include the following subsystems:

1) a video surveillance subsystem 102, the video surveillance subsystem 102 may include one or more analog cameras 112 and one or more web cameras 116. The analog camera 112 may access, for example, a coaxial Video recorder (XVR) device 114 and connect via the XVR device 114 to the switch 122, via the private network 126 and/or the switch 128, to the client keyboard 138, the streaming media server 136, the integrated security management subsystem 132, the storage server 134, and/or the Video integration platform 142, or to the television wall 144 via a Composite synchronous Video broadcast Signal (CVBS), a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) or Digital Visual Interface (DVI), etc. the webcam 116 may access, for example, a Network Video Recorder (NVR) device 118 and connect via the NVR device 118 to the switch 124, via the private network 126 and/or the switch 128, to the client keyboard 138, the streaming media server 136, the Video recorder (NVR) device 118, and the switch 122, The integrated security management subsystem 132, the storage server 134, and/or the video integrated platform 142, or to the video wall 144 via CVBS, HDMI, DVI, or the like.

The analog camera 112 and the webcam 116 may be located at one or more video surveillance sites. The one or more video surveillance sites may include video surveillance sites such as, for example, examination site testing sites, listing sites, social processing windows, etc., although the invention is not limited thereto. In one embodiment, approximately 10000 ways or so may be accessed, although the invention is not limited thereto. In one embodiment, the capacity of the video networking platform can be expanded to meet the requirements of video access, preview and playback.

2) The integrated security management platform 104, the integrated security management platform 104 may include an integrated security subsystem 132 for implementing alarm event linkage and wall-mounting functions, and/or an operation and maintenance management subsystem (not shown) for implementing operation and maintenance of the devices and platforms. The one or more video surveillance sites may be connected via one or more private business networks 110 and/or 112, etc., through international cascade gateways 108, etc., and/or with clients 102, integrated security management platform 104, and/or cloud storage 106.

In one embodiment, the network environment may include an image-aware network to connect various point-based high-definition webcams and/or analog cameras, etc. to the integrated security management platform 104. For example, the webcam 116 may access the NVR device 118 on the point location by developing an Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) protocol or a national standard protocol, and then access the Video monitoring platform 142 through the NVR device 118 according to the national standard protocol. The analog camera 112 may access the XVR device 114 via a video cable, etc., and then access the video surveillance platform 142 via the XVR device 114 via a national standard protocol.

As shown in fig. 1, the integrated security system 100 fully considers the information sharing requirements of each subsystem, performs a structural and standardized design on each subsystem, and integrates the subsystems into an organic whole in various linkage manners among the subsystems, so that the system becomes a set of integrated and comprehensive security system, and people's air defense, physical air defense and technical air defense are fully integrated.

As shown in fig. 1, the system front end (e.g., video monitoring subsystem 102), the transmission network (e.g., private network 126, etc.), and the central system (e.g., integrated security management platform 104, etc.) of the integrated security system 100 are connected to each other.

The system front end is used for integrating various security systems and the like in the station and is mainly responsible for collecting, coding, decoding and storing video information inside and around an application scene. For example, there are front-end devices such as a network camera and an analog camera in the system front end.

The transmission network can be built in a video private network, for example, an internal high-speed local area network is adopted for building, and the advantages of local area network data transmission are fully utilized for realizing the rapid exchange of the information flow among the systems. The video and alarm information of the front-end system can be uploaded to a platform and respectively called and checked by a management department and users at all levels.

The central system can be used for managing all devices in an application scene, receiving information reported by each area, meeting the requirements of users at all levels on monitoring video, alarm information viewing and the like, and mainly comprising a comprehensive security management platform, a management client and the like.

In one embodiment, the integrated security management platform 104 has high compatibility, compatibility with front-end access devices: the system is fully compatible with a whole series of monitoring devices, the platform supports the access of ONVIF devices, the system is compatible with domestic and foreign mainstream alarm hosts, and the system is compatible with a plurality of vendor devices by providing a stable Software Development Kit (SDK) and a mainstream protocol by a device vendor.

The comprehensive security management platform 104 supports multi-architecture combination, and meets different architecture modes such as an analog-digital hybrid architecture (a camera-encoder-Video Recorder (CVR)/cloud storage, a camera-hard disk Video Recorder (dvr)), a pure digital architecture (a network camera-CVR/NVR/cloud storage) and the like, so as to meet the actual application requirements of the security system.

1) Analog-digital hybrid monitoring architecture

The front end of the system adopts an analog camera, the analog camera is coded by a coder and then transmitted through a network, and is uniformly stored in a centralized storage server or cloud storage, or is directly coded and stored through a Digital Video Recorder (DVR), or adopts a mode that the analog camera and the network Digital camera coexist.

2) Pure digital monitoring architecture

The front end adopts a high-definition network camera or a standard-definition network camera as image acquisition and digital coding, and adopts NVR (noise, vibration and harshness) for distributed storage or adopts central storage equipment such as CVR (virtual content router) and cloud storage for centralized storage through network transmission.

As described above, by adopting advanced, integrated, safe and reliable technologies in the system 100, and considering the change of functional requirements and the rapid development of application technologies, the performance of the whole system is open, standardized, expandable and high in cost performance, so as to ensure that the system is established as a comprehensive security system with advanced technology, practicality, reliability, economy and reasonableness and advanced level at home and abroad.

Fig. 2 shows an example of a system architecture of a video surveillance system according to an embodiment of the invention. As shown in fig. 2, the video monitoring system 200 is a key point of security construction, and is responsible for video security monitoring in a monitoring area, implementing services such as preview, playback, storage, wall mounting of video images, and pan-tilt control of pan-tilt equipment, providing effective technical means such as security monitoring, equipment monitoring, post-office investigation, evidence extraction, and the like, providing visual support for rapid and effective command and decision making, enabling managers to remotely grasp the occurrence conditions of each monitoring area in real time, and ensuring the security of personnel and property in the monitoring area.

In one embodiment, the video surveillance system 200 is high-definition. The system 200 may employ high-definition video monitoring technology to achieve high-definition acquisition, high-definition encoding, high-definition transmission, high-definition storage, and high-definition display of video image information. The video surveillance system 200 is networked. The system 200 provides a video monitoring networking function based on an Internet Protocol (IP) network transmission technology, and implements network-wide scheduling, management and intelligent application. The signaling of the video surveillance system 200 is separated from the traffic. Under certain conditions, when the central server fails, the storage service and the wall-mounted service are not interrupted. The video surveillance system 200 may employ cloud-side intelligence. The front-end equipment of the system 200 can adopt an intelligent camera to realize front-end intelligent acquisition and intelligent analysis on the basis of high-definition video acquisition; the back-end equipment can adopt a super-brain NVR and a facial makeup server to intelligently analyze the video and picture information collected by the front end, so that various intelligent applications and functions are provided for users, and the intelligent analysis of the front-end and back-end fusion of the users is met. The video surveillance system 200 has storage stability. The video and the image can be stored by using professional storage equipment with a direct current storage technology, and the reliability and the usability of the storage system are improved by adopting various technical means. The seamless butt joint of the new system and the old system can be realized by considering the old and the useless system of the original system, the cost is reduced, and the resource waste is reduced.

As shown in fig. 2, the video surveillance system 200 is comprised of a front end subsystem 202 having a front end camera device, a video display device 240, a control keyboard 230, a video storage device 228, and/or associated application software, as well as other transmission and auxiliary devices. System 200 is scalable and open to facilitate future expansion and integration with other systems.

As shown in fig. 2, front end subsystem 202 includes one or more front end video surveillance devices supporting multiple types of camera access. In one embodiment, the front end subsystem 202 may be configured with conventional video surveillance equipment such as an outdoor panoramic omni-directional mobile and lens zoom (Pan/Tilt/zoom) (ptz) barrel machine 242, a black-light dome machine 244, a starlight dome machine 246, an elevator dome 248; and/or thermal imaging anti-theft and fireproof video monitoring equipment such as a thermal imaging single spectrum barrel machine 250, a thermal imaging double spectrum ball machine 252 and the like; and/or large scene panoramic video surveillance equipment such as fisheye 254, bowl-shaped eagle eye 256, spherical eagle eye 258; and/or intelligent video monitoring devices such as "deep eye" barrel machine 260 (face capture), "deep eye" traffic camera 262, "deep eye" behavior analysis camera 264, "magic" bayonet camera 266, which relate to faces, people, activities, vehicles, etc., although the invention is not so limited. The front terminal system can also comprise video monitoring equipment such as a high-definition network gun camera, a dome camera and the like, and can be directly accessed to a network according to a standard audio and video coding format and a standard communication protocol to transmit video images.

As shown in fig. 2, in one embodiment, front end subsystem 202 may include a transport network portion such that access between front end subsystem 202 and access switches 216 and/or 226 may be through a wired or wireless network. The wired network may include, for example, 3 connections: the front-end signal may be converged to the central core switch 236 by a point-to-point fiber access method of a fiber transceiver (e.g., 212/214), a direct access switch method (e.g., within 100 meters), and a point-to-multipoint fiber PON access method (e.g., Optical Network Units (ONUs) 218 and/or 220, Optical splitter 222, and Optical Line Terminal (OLT)224), but the present invention is not limited thereto.

The monitoring center 204 may include a video storage device 228, a video display device 240, and/or software that implements a unified management video integration platform 238 and corresponding platform, among other things. As shown in fig. 2, the monitoring center 204 may include a central storage device 228, a core switch 236 that interacts with the front end subsystem 202, a video integration platform 238 that interacts with the core switch 236, a display 240 connected to the video integration platform 238, a client (e.g., connected to the client network keyboard 230 via a local area network) that interacts with the central storage device 228, a central management server 232, and a monitoring management terminal 234. The monitoring center 204 may be used for coding device management, video monitoring configuration, video monitoring applications, video cascading.

In a part of large projects, the monitoring center 204 may be further divided into a central computer room and a control center, where the central computer room is mainly used to deploy the video storage device 228, the central management server 232 (installation platform software), and the core switch 236. The control center may deploy a decoding mosaic device (not shown), a large display screen 240, and a user terminal 234.

For large projects, the monitoring center can store high-definition video images by adopting storage modes such as CVR (video surveillance recorder) or cloud storage (standard cloud, microcosmic cloud and the like); the problem of data landing can be solved by adopting an NVR mode for small items or scenes needing front-end distributed storage, but the invention is not limited to the NVR mode, and users can select different storage modes according to actual needs.

The monitoring center 204 may utilize the video integration platform 238 to complete the applications of video decoding, splicing, and on-wall Display, and the video is displayed on-wall through a large screen 240, such as a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and/or a Light Emitting Display (LED).

The central management server 232 may use a comprehensive security management platform (e.g., 104 shown in fig. 1) to perform unified management on the video monitoring devices and the users, so as to implement preview, playback, authority control and various intelligent applications of the video.

In one embodiment, the front-end camera may use a 400W web high definition camera. The front-end camera can access the network and transmit the video images according to the standard audio and video coding format and the standard communication protocol.

The front-end equipment can be selected according to the following standards:

1) the device morphology may be selected according to the monitoring scenario. For example, the bolt face can be used for monitoring fixed scenes and has high requirements on effects, such as personnel access and the like. The gunlock can select a lens and match an indoor/outdoor shield; the hemisphere can be used for indoor fixed small-range monitoring, such as elevators, residents and the like. The hemisphere is installed indoors, has certain concealment, and is elegant in appearance. The visual angle of the hemisphere is larger, and the image has certain distortion; the dome camera can be used for monitoring the periphery of equipment by switching scenes, such as a community gate, outdoor activity places and the like. The ball machine is an integrated device, can control the holder to rotate, and supports zooming and automatic focusing; the tube machine can be used for fixing monitoring scenes, and has no special requirements on effects, such as corridors, corridors and the like. The barrel machine is designed integrally, and a lens and a shield do not need to be additionally arranged. The monitoring distance of the cylinder machine is different from a lens, and generally ranges from several meters to dozens of meters; eagle eye is used for panoramic monitoring of surrounding scenes and close-up monitoring of details in the panorama, but the invention is not limited thereto.

2) Device characteristics may be selected based on scene characteristics. For example, full-color monitoring is performed in a low-illumination environment, and starlight and black light equipment can be selected; in the ordinary monitoring under the low-light environment, infrared equipment can be selected; under the condition of monitoring the vehicle road, the entrance and the exit at night, selecting equipment with a strong light inhibition function; deploying equipment with an intelligent acquisition function in a scene where a face, a human body, a license plate and a vehicle need to be acquired, or deploying equipment which can be matched with an intelligent analysis back end; for monitoring a scene under heavy fog, tree shielding or extremely low illumination, a thermal imaging device with an imaging function under severe conditions can be selected, but the invention is not limited thereto.

The front end supporting facility can comprise a bracket and a vertical rod. The monitoring point can adopt modes such as pole setting installation, staple bolt installation, hanging installation and jib installation according to on-the-spot actual conditions. The indoor camera can be fixedly installed, various mounting brackets such as wall mounting, hoisting and corner mounting can be adopted according to the type and the field condition of the camera, and the mounting height is not less than 2.5 m. The camera is arranged outdoors, and when the camera can be attached and installed by virtue of a building, the camera is installed by selecting a corresponding installation bracket; if no proper building is available for attachment installation, the video monitoring special upright is selected, and the installation height is not lower than 3.5m for example.

The front end supporting facility can also comprise an outdoor case. The power supply and signals of the outdoor camera are collected outdoors and are terminated by a special waterproof box. The design of the mounting frame inside the end connection box fully considers the mounting position of the equipment, and meanwhile, the mounting frame has the functions of rain prevention, dust prevention, high temperature prevention, theft prevention and the like. The equipment cabinet is not convenient to install on the vertical rod, the equipment cabinet is arranged on the ground, the design of the equipment cabinet is executed according to the relevant standard, and the equipment cabinet has the functions of dust prevention, rain prevention, damage prevention and the like.

The front end supporting facility can also comprise light supplementing equipment. In the camera monitoring, a certain light supplement measure is selected to obtain a normal monitoring image at night. The light source of the fill light may include an LED, a metal halide lamp, a High-pressure sodium, an incandescent lamp, a xenon lamp (High Intensity Discharge (HID)), or the like.

The front end support may also include lightning protection grounding. The power supply and control part of the front end can adopt lightning protection grounding measures to fully ensure the stability and reliability of the front end, and the lightning protection grounding of the front end monitoring mainly comprises lightning protection, wherein a pre-discharge lightning rod is configured at each video monitoring point of a direct lightning non-protection area and is arranged at the top of a vertical rod of the monitoring point; the lightning stroke electromagnetic pulse protection of the power supply facility, the power supply lightning protection system is used for preventing the lightning wave from causing damage to the front-end equipment through the power supply; the equipotential connection is used for electrically connecting a metal shell of equipment, a metal sheath of a cable, a metal framework and a metal pipeline which are not normally electrified (or do not carry information), ungrounded or not well grounded with a grounding system, so that the internal insulation of the equipment and the counterattack to a cable core wire caused by the induction of a lightning high voltage or the transmission of a lightning high potential on a grounding device are prevented.

The front end ancillary equipment may also include cables. The front-end network camera can be accessed in a network cable mode. For short-distance transmission (within 100 meters), the access switch can be directly connected through a network cable; for long-distance transmission, the optical fiber transceiver or the ONU equipment can be accessed through a network cable and then converged into an access switch.

In one embodiment, the control center 204 may be used for coding device management, video surveillance configuration, video surveillance applications, video cascading, and the like.

In one embodiment, according to the device access type, the video monitoring component can support Haikang SDK, Dahua SDK, GB28181 and Onvif protocols to add front-end coding devices and perform video related service application, so as to adapt to the local area network environment, the cascade connection of third-party devices and platforms, the third-party devices being international devices or meeting overseas video monitoring requirements and other scenes. In one embodiment, the front end may adopt the access specification of the GB28181 protocol to perform unified access management on the front end device.

The device management function can support operations of batch import and export of devices, device connection parameter configuration, addition and deletion of devices, change and check of devices and the like. For example, device information such as device name and device serial number is synchronized to or from the monitoring center or platform; the method comprises the steps that the name of a monitoring point is synchronized to equipment from a monitoring center or a platform or synchronized to the monitoring center or the platform from the equipment; the method supports IP channel configuration of NVR, including adding and deleting a front-end encoder; and operations of adding, deleting, changing, checking and the like of monitoring points are supported. Supporting the parameter configuration of a monitoring point, including the configuration of an On-Screen Designer (OSD), the name of a video picture display channel, the time, the date and the week; a character superimposition configuration, in which at most 4 character strings are superimposed on a video picture; video parameter configuration, such as code stream type, resolution, code rate type image quality, video frame rate; privacy protection setting, video shielding alarm configuration, mobile detection configuration and video loss alarm configuration. And the alarm configuration is supported, and the alarm configuration comprises the addition and deletion checking operation and the alarm input and output configuration of the alarm.

The video monitoring application realizes applications such as real-time monitoring, video playback, picture query, television wall and the like through front-end coding equipment.

The video monitoring configuration can comprise central storage management and configuration, video recording plan configuration, image capture plan configuration, media configuration, equipment event arming and disarming and the like.

FIG. 3 illustrates an example of central storage resource management, according to one embodiment of the invention. As shown in fig. 3, supporting centralized management of central storage resources, a cloud storage CVM may be employed. The storage resource management can be divided into domains through different logics (such as regions and types), storage domains are created, and the networks in the single domains are connected. Various storage devices in the physical resources are respectively added into the created storage domain according to the actual region and type. The administrator can create a storage resource pool in the domain, virtualize the storage resource, configure the read-write permission of the resource pool for the user, and the authorized user can normally inquire and use the storage resource pool. Central storage management may include physical resource management, storage domain management, and storage resource pool management.

The physical resource management supports the operations of adding, deleting, modifying and searching the cloud storage of the central storage equipment and supports the import of the equipment; supporting the display of the state of the storage device, including the online state, the storage capacity, the residual capacity, the number of access paths of the channel, the utilization rate of a Central Processing Unit (CPU), the utilization rate of a memory and the like; and disk information and status check of the storage device are supported.

The storage domain is used for virtualization operation of physical storage resources, and storage resources are allocated for the resource pool for video storage. The storage domain management supports the operations of adding, deleting, modifying and searching the storage domain, and stores the storage domain in the cloud storage domain; the cloud storage is used for managing cloud storage resources, and one cloud storage domain is intelligently associated with one cloud storage resource; and supporting the stored state display, including the domain type, the number of devices, the total capacity, the residual capacity and the like.

In the resource pool management, a resource pool is a central storage resource displayed for a service layer, and when a monitoring point configuration center stores, a video plan is sent to a formulated resource pool for video storage management; supporting the operations of adding, deleting, changing and searching the resource pool; and the state display of the resource pool is supported, and comprises a storage state, a resource pool type, a utilization rate, an access path number and the like.

In the video plan configuration, the video storage of the monitoring point supports two modes, namely central storage and equipment storage. For device storage, the type of the storage code stream can be selected from a main code stream or a sub code stream. For the central storage, the code stream type can be selected from a main code stream or a sub code stream, and the stream fetching mode can be selected from direct connection equipment stream fetching or a Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) access stream fetching. The method supports the display of the monitoring video plan, including storage state, storage position, type of a video plan template and the like; supporting batch copying of the video plan, displaying the copying progress of the video plan by batch copying, and displaying the total plan number and the finished number; the method supports the configuration of the storage time of the video, and the storage time can be selected from 1 to 90 days. Device storage supports simultaneous preservation of audio and video recordings. The method supports the configuration of the video plan template, and defaults include an all-weather storage template, a working day storage template and a weekend template, and supports the self-definition of the video plan template. And the method supports the export of the details of all the video programs of the monitoring points in the system.

And the snap-shot plan is configured to configure the snap-shot frequency and time point of the monitoring point when the monitoring point is subjected to picture monitoring or the front end is subjected to snap-shot retention record. In the configuration of the grab plan, the addition, deletion and modification of the grab plan of the monitoring point are supported; and the method supports the snapshot according to two plan types of time periods and time points. The time interval of the grab can be customized according to the time period of the grab, and the time interval can be selected within 24 hours; the time interval of the snapshot can be defined to the time point of the snapshot every week. Supporting the template configuration of a grapple plan, wherein the template configuration comprises a time period template and a time point template, and each type supports at most about 8 templates; the configuration supporting the quality of the grab image can be selected to be general, better or best.

The media configuration service can perform unified management scheduling on all media resources and perform media positioning aiming at the problems that the media components are various, the platform is complex to butt joint, a unified video streaming configuration page is not available, all media boundaries are not clear, and the streaming path configuration is complex. The media configuration can be divided into 4 scenes, for example, the current level previewing playback is used for previewing the current level monitoring point and obtaining the stream configuration by the equipment storage playback; the cascade preview playback is used for the preview and playback streaming configuration of the cascade monitoring points; the central storage playback is used for the central storage playback stream fetching configuration of the current-level monitoring point; and the code stream transfer processing is used for cross-network transfer and mobile terminal code stream format conversion.

The media scheduling service supports automatic matching of the optimal media link according to a media intelligent scheduling strategy and a media load balancing condition so as to provide an optimal media stream taking path. Meanwhile, the user can manually allocate the video point locations and the media association relation according to the scene needs so as to meet the requirements of personalized media resource allocation and scheduling.

The equipment event arming and disarming is used for carrying out batch arming and disarming management on the universal events reported by the equipment under the scene of large road number, and the repeated operation time cost of a user is reduced. For example, support for batch arming and disarming control of motion detection, video loss, video occlusion, alarm input and alarm output events; supporting the batch configuration of an event arming and disarming plan for monitoring points; supporting the configuration of a defense deployment and withdrawal plan template; and supporting the exhibition of the arming and disarming states of the events of the monitoring points, including the arming plan type, the arming and disarming states and the like.

Video surveillance applications may include live previews, video playback, and the like.

The video real-time preview is preview of a monitoring real-time picture, and comprises basic video preview, video parameter control, view mode preview, real-time talkback of a camera talkback channel where a monitoring center or platform and a monitoring point are located, batch broadcasting and real-time tripod head control of the monitoring point with tripod head capability.

The basic video preview supports two modes of a World Wide Web (WEB) browser and a Client-server (CS) Client, and the real-time picture preview of a monitoring point is carried out in a video control mode; the device preview mode supports switching between direct connection preview and non-direct connection preview, the direct connection preview is platform direct connection device, the non-direct connection preview is preview of a platform passing through a device access layer, and a default stream taking mode can be configured during preview. Other types of devices and cascading devices support only non-direct previews. And the configuration of the number of the reconnection times and the reconnection time interval is supported. The video decoding mode supports hard decoding and software switching. And opening intelligent rules including warning lines, regions and the like when previewing is supported. The layout switching of the video playing window is supported, and the layout switching comprises 1, 4, 9, 16 and 25 conventional picture segmentation, 1+2, 1+5, 1+7, 1+8, 1+9, 1+12, 1+16, 4+9, 3+4, 1+1+12 personalized picture segmentation and corridor segmentation modes of 1x2 and 1x 4; supporting auxiliary screen preview; supporting double-click area nodes to check all monitoring points in the area, wherein the display number of the monitoring points is the current window segmentation number; the functions of closing preview windows in batches, window self-adaption, full-screen playing and the like are supported; the method supports the monitoring point to preview the picture to perform operations such as picture capture, sound opening/closing, electronic amplification, main and sub code stream switching, code stream information checking and the like. And the monitoring point preview toolbar definition configuration is supported, and a user can add/hide the work energy in a preview window according to needs. The method supports picture monitoring on the monitoring points configured with the snap-in plans, and is used for saving bandwidth and flow under the scene with low real-time requirement on the monitoring points. And emergency video recording in a video preview picture is supported, and the method is used for recording and proving abnormal problems. And instant playback is supported when the real-time preview is carried out, and the instant playback is used for quickly confirming when the abnormal condition is found through the preview. And supporting time-limited preview, and after the time-limited preview is started, counting down to the last specified time length, for example, 10 seconds until the time-limited preview is closed. If the preview is selected to continue, the countdown is restarted. The specified duration of the time-limited preview is customized within, for example, 1-30 minutes, although the invention is not so limited. And supporting the grouped polling of the monitoring points, and performing polling display on the video pictures of the monitoring points according to the preset polling time interval, the sequence of the monitoring points in polling groups, the default window layout and the like. And supporting round inspection grouping management, including adding and deleting round inspection groups, adjusting time intervals, monitoring point round inspection sequence and the like.

The view preview support stores the corresponding relation between the monitoring points and the playing window and the window layout format in a view form, and a user can perform monitoring point grouping management and rapid preview by using the view. View management is supported in both shared view and private view modes. Any user who has preview authority on the monitoring point in the view can preview and configure the public view; the private view only opens the right to the user, and other users cannot see the view after logging in. And view management configuration is supported, including management of view groups, and operations of adding, deleting, moving positions, modifying monitoring points of views, layout of windows and the like are performed in the view groups.

The holder and video parameter control support holder control of the holder on the monitoring point with the holder function. In the monitoring preview state, the vertical and horizontal directions of the cradle head are controlled, for example, 8 directions by opening the cradle head or clicking a cradle head control button of a monitoring point preview toolbar. The functions of controlling the magnification, adjusting the focus and the aperture, controlling light, controlling a windshield wiper, focusing by one key, amplifying in three Dimensions (3D) and the like are realized through the control support of the holder. And supporting the setting and starting of the prefabrication point, and carrying out cruise path setting and prefabrication point cruise control according to the set prefabrication point. And track recording and track playing are supported. And the configuration of the holder level authority is supported, and the holder authority of the user at a low level can be preempted by the user at a high level. And supporting the configuration of the duration of the operation authority of the holder, wherein after the user stops operating the holder, the user at a low level or the same level cannot operate the holder of the equipment within the limited duration. The user information of the operating holder is displayed on the video picture in an overlapping mode. And the video parameter adjustment of the monitoring point is supported, including brightness, chroma, contrast and saturation.

The video playback is used for querying, playing, picture flow control, segment downloading and other applications of the historical video, and comprises basic video playback, video downloading, clipping and the like.

The basic video playback supports two modes of a WEB browser and a CS client, and the historical video pictures of the monitoring points are played back in a video control mode. The method supports the inquiry according to the video types, comprises three types of plan video, alarm video and mobile detection, and can also check other types of videos except the three types when the videos are played; and the inquiry is supported according to the video storage type, and comprises equipment storage and central storage. And the layout switching of the video recording and playback windows is supported, and the video recording and playback windows comprise 4 types of playback window division types such as 1, 4, 9, 16 and the like. The operations of image capture, sound opening/closing, electronic amplification, code stream information checking and the like of the video playback picture are supported. The method supports two modes of searching the videos according to the time period and positioning the videos according to the time point. The method supports the flow control operation of the video playback picture, including forward playing, reverse playing, double-speed reverse playing, slow reverse playing, single frame stepping and the like. The double speed playing speed is 1, 2, 4 and 8 times, and the slow playing speed 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 are selectable. The method supports the addition of labels and description information to the video, and can search video clips according to the types of the labels, the description information and the marking time range. The video labels include red, blue, green, yellow 4 types. The video recording method and the video recording system support locking and unlocking of the video recording segments, the locked video recording time period and the locked time length can be selected, and the locked video recording segments cannot be covered or deleted. The locking duration is selectable according to the granularity of day, week, month and year. The zooming of the video range of the video progress bar is supported, the video range of the progress bar can be selected from 1 hour to 24 hours, and the zooming can also be performed in a roller mode. And the intelligent information including warning lines, regions and the like is started by supporting video playback.

The video downloading and editing support the video downloading, and a user can define the range of video segments and download addresses by self. And the video downloading task is searched, deleted, suspended and continuously operated. And the starting downloading and all suspension operations of the downloading tasks are supported in batches. And filtering according to the downloading task state is supported. The video clip is supported, and the user can customize the size of the video clip and save the address. A single video download/clip size setting is supported and the settings items include, for example, 256M, 512M, 1G, 2G, etc.

The video cascade function is used for cascade/interconnection among platforms (for example, according to GB/T28181, but the invention is not limited thereto), and provides basic networking functions such as registration discovery, heartbeat detection, pan-tilt control, real-time monitoring, clock synchronization and the like. And the system can also comprise extended networking functions, such as active directory push, real-time resource synchronization, selective resource sharing, media keep-alive, authority control and the like.

Networking basic functions include registration and discovery between platforms; and detecting the heartbeat of the interconnection link.

The front-end directory pushing can be realized by actively pushing a front-end equipment directory to the superior platform by the inferior platform; the upper platform can also initiate the front-end equipment directory inquiry to the lower platform.

The organizational structure display is used for the superior platform to analyze and encode each subordinate platform directory, and the subordinate platforms are respectively mounted and uniformly displayed according to the affiliated department, unit and area.

The equipment information sharing is used for opening and sharing information such as local equipment state, parameters and the like from a lower platform to an upper platform, and realizing the unified operation and maintenance management of the networking system.

And the authority control management is used for supporting the functions of sharing authority management, networking state management, gateway performance consumption query and the like of the upper-level and lower-level platform networking.

The media keep-alive mechanism is used for receiving and sending video media streams between platforms based on a Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP), supports the keep-alive mechanism and prevents interruption of cross-platform calling of the video streams.

By organically combining the front-end network high-definition camera, the rear-end high-definition storage device, the video comprehensive platform, the large display screen and the like, the full high-definition and full networking of the whole system can be realized, and the advantages of high integration, high intelligence, high reliability, high expansibility, high usability and the like of the system are embodied.

The system realizes high definition and low code from the links of video acquisition, video signal coding compression, video signal transmission, video browsing, video file playback and the like. By utilizing high-definition acquisition, the front end adopts a high-definition camera, and key detail information in the picture can be fully acquired. And the definition is improved, and simultaneously, the video code stream is greatly reduced and the network bandwidth and the storage pressure are reduced by utilizing the advanced H.265 coding technology. By utilizing high-definition storage, the storage device provides storage service for high-definition videos, and the storage link is ensured to achieve a high-definition effect. The system supports flexible expansion of storage and can meet the storage requirement of mass high-definition video data. By utilizing high-definition video transmission and exchange, the video integrated platform supports the input and output of high-definition video signals, has strong H.265 hard decoding capability, can realize the conversion and exchange of high-definition videos in the video integrated platform, and eliminates the transmission bottleneck between a plurality of traditional decoders and a pin controller. The video comprehensive platform is combined with the large screen to carry out splicing control of multiple modes on video images by utilizing high-definition display, the spliced large screen supports 1080P and higher physical resolution, a front-end large view field and a remote monitoring picture can be spliced and displayed, and a better network high-definition effect is experienced.

A multi-angle and multi-layer three-dimensional comprehensive security system is constructed through a 'circle line surface point' security deployment model, and scene coverage is more perfect. For example, an integral prevention and control system with cooperative combat, organic and non-cleavable functions is formed from outside to inside, which is beneficial to comprehensively improving the comprehensive prevention and control level of people, vehicles and objects taking the space as an axis and improving the integral prevention and control capability of comprehensive security and protection. Meanwhile, a complete solution is provided for the subdivision scene, the user requirements are met, and the method is convenient to use in an independent intelligent system. In an intelligent analysis mode, an intelligent product for deep learning is utilized, so that the precision is higher, and the scene adaptability is stronger; meanwhile, the intelligent function types realized by deep learning are richer. The system comprises a front end and a rear end, various intelligent analysis modes can adapt to different scene requirements, the diversity requirements of users are met, the intelligent requirements of large projects and the intelligent requirements of small and medium projects are met, and the system has strong adaptability and project coping capability. A light intelligent warning series camera is used as a front-end false alarm removing scheme, and an S series small superconcephalon is combined as a rear-end false alarm removing scheme, so that more accurate event reporting is provided for perimeter precaution.

The system adopts networked equipment from the front end to the back end, so that full networking and integral networking are realized. Because the whole system adopts networked equipment, the structure is simple, the circuit is simple, the networking construction of the system can be completed in less time, and the networking of the system is convenient. Through the standardized architecture logic, the system is simple and clear, and a standardized video monitoring solution is provided for users by taking the front-end access, network transmission, central control and management platform of basic video monitoring as a core framework. The latest national standard protocol supporting video monitoring provides feasibility for large-scale networking of video monitoring. The system has strong compatibility, supports high-definition videos such as access 4K, 1080P, 720P and the like, and also supports various standard definition resolution videos such as 4 Common Intermediate Format (CIF) (704X576), CIF (352X288), QCIF (176X144) and the like; supporting multi-code stream access modes such as double code streams and three code streams to adapt to different requirements of local monitoring video and network video transmission; the system supports the video stream access of the mainstream coding format; the method supports various types of storage such as DVR, Digital Video Server (DVS), NVR, cloud storage and CVR. And can be compatible with various main monitoring products of domestic and foreign mainstream brands, and has strong compatibility. The front-end interprocess Communication (IPC) supports network transmission, interconnection and intercommunication can be realized through a standard protocol, and the rear end adopts standard networking equipment, so that the whole system networking is realized, and the sharing and calling of video resources in the system are easy to realize. Meanwhile, the networking among the platforms supports the video monitoring national standard protocol, equipment and platforms which accord with the national standard protocol can be easily accessed, seamless butt joint of multi-level platforms is realized, and the requirement of users on video monitoring networking is met.

The system is integrated efficiently, unified equipment is accessed into the gateway, various front-end equipment such as a conventional video surveillance camera, a face snapshot camera, a bayonet camera, a parking space camera and the like can be accessed conveniently, and different storage modes such as front-end Secure Digital (SD) card storage, NVR (network video recorder), CVR (virtual vehicle security), cloud storage and the like can be configured conveniently. The video decoding and control integration of the monitoring center is realized, the video comprehensive platform is based on a Nethera (NETRA) platform, adopts a high-performance video processing chip, and integrates the functions of video signal input, output, coding, decoding, conversion, exchange, splicing, control and the like in a modular deployment mode. The integration of application function has reduced the equipment quantity of surveillance center to a certain extent, has reduced the line of walking between the equipment, has shortened installation and debugging cycle, has improved computer lab neatness etc.. The video monitoring system can be integrated and linked with other subsystems of the comprehensive security management platform, and if a linkage rule is determined through an event center, the video monitoring system can be linked with an access control system to open a door, send short messages, send mails and the like.

The system has high reliability. The storage device has the advantages that the storage device has the network failure supplement and record function of Application Not Response (ANR), the cloud storage 3.0 supports the Erasure Code (EC) function, and when the access network is interrupted or a single storage device fails, the continuity of system service and the reliability and integrity of data can be still ensured, so that the storage reliability is realized, the high reliability and the high safety are ensured, and the disaster tolerance performance is enhanced. Through stream direct access, the storage part can not only realize a direct access mode, but also realize direct access, namely, the client can directly obtain the video stream from the storage device without depending on the scheduling of the stream media forwarding server. By utilizing the forwarding performance of the storage subsystem, the transmission bandwidth requirement of the video stream between the devices is reduced, and the system load is reduced. The network between the video integrated platform and the core switch bears a large pressure, and in order to ensure the stability and high efficiency of the whole system, a link is adopted for convergence, and the core switch and the video integrated platform can be connected by two gigabit network lines, for example, so that bandwidth expansion or dynamic backup is realized, and the normal operation of the system is ensured. The method actively distributes the work of the fault streaming media to other streaming media through the streaming media cluster function, realizes the hot standby effect of the streaming media service, ensures that the system is continuously used after the streaming media is in fault, improves the reliability of the system and strengthens the performance of the system; the data lost due to system damage can be quickly and conveniently recovered through the backup and recovery functions of the database, the running reliability of the system is improved, the influence of emergency is reduced, diversified functions such as user forbidding and releasing functions, strengthened authority Control and authorization management are provided, the management reliability of the system is improved through the address binding function of a user and Media Access Control (MAC), and therefore the management reliability of the system is ensured in a multi-level mode.

The video monitoring system can be flexibly expanded. The video platform can flexibly deploy or newly add various service board cards according to actual needs through a modularized deployment mode, and linear access to alarm signals, high-definition network videos, high-definition digital videos, optical fiber digital videos, analog videos and the like is achieved. The platform software has standard internal and external interfaces, and meanwhile, the modularized software design is easy to expand in the later period, particularly for the condition that the project scale is enlarged and needs to be upgraded, the system expansion can be realized only by adding corresponding servers and combining corresponding service modules. The storage system supports use as required, can realize the expansion of performance and storage capacity by simply increasing hardware equipment, and can very conveniently meet the requirement of capacity expansion and adjustment of future services.

The video monitoring system is simple and easy to use, deploy, operate, manage and maintain. By using the system-level product video comprehensive platform which is easy to deploy, functions such as coding, decoding, splicing and control and the like can be realized by a single device through modularization and integration, and the system debugging period is shortened. The video monitoring equipment can be updated and upgraded by remote control on a platform interface, batch processing is supported, and the operation is easy. For example, a gun Camera (Internet Protocol Camera (IPC)) supports a Back Focus automatic adjustment function, and fine adjustment of an image sensor can be automatically or manually realized through an Automatic Back Focus (ABF) button on the Camera or an auxiliary Focus button on a client/web browser (Internet Explorer (IE)) to achieve the function of fine adjustment of a focal length; the electric lens supports the automatic focusing function after zooming, does not need manual focusing, and is high in focusing speed and convenient to install and debug.

The network management is realized through an all-IP networking mode, and video monitoring resources can be uniformly managed through any client in the network; the management platform provides a simple and easy-to-operate human-computer interaction interface, and the overall management efficiency of the system can be improved.

The system supports the automatic fault detection function of the camera, such as definition abnormity, brightness abnormity, signal loss and the like, can find problems and send out warning signals in time, so that the faults can be processed in time, the maintenance efficiency of the video monitoring system is improved, and the system is easy to maintain.

The foregoing shows and describes the general principles and features of the present invention, together with the advantages thereof. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, which are described in the specification and illustrated only to illustrate the principle of the present invention, but that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, which fall within the scope of the invention as claimed. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.

Claims

1. A video surveillance system, comprising:

the front terminal system comprises camera equipment which is directly connected to a network to transmit video images;

the monitoring center is used for video storage, video display and/or unified management, and comprises a central machine room with a video storage and central management server and a core switch, and/or a control center with a decoding and splicing control device, a display screen and a user terminal.

2. The video monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the front terminal system selects a camera device configuration according to a monitoring scene, and comprises a gun camera for fixing the monitoring scene and having a high requirement on effect; the hemisphere is used for indoor fixed small-range monitoring; the ball machine is used for monitoring the periphery of the equipment by switching scenes; the tube machine is used for fixing a monitoring scene and has no special requirement on the effect; the eagle eye is used for carrying out panoramic monitoring on surrounding scenes, carrying out close-up monitoring on details in the panoramic scene, and/or selecting the characteristics of camera equipment according to the characteristics of the scenes, carrying out full-color monitoring in a low-illumination environment, and selecting starlight and black light equipment; normally monitoring in a low-illumination environment, and selecting infrared equipment; monitoring a vehicle road and an entrance and an exit at night, and selecting equipment with a strong light inhibition function; deploying equipment with an intelligent acquisition function or deploying and matching equipment at the rear end of intelligent analysis in scenes where faces, human bodies, license plates and vehicles need to be acquired; and (3) monitoring scenes with heavy fog, tree shielding or extremely low illumination, and selecting thermal imaging equipment with an imaging function under severe conditions.

3. The video surveillance system of claim 1, wherein the front end terminal system further comprises a bracket and pole, an outdoor cabinet, a lighting fixture, a lightning protection ground fixture, and/or a cable.

4. The video surveillance system of claim 1, characterized in that the surveillance center comprises a central storage device, a core switch interacting with the front end subsystem, a video integration platform interacting with the core switch, a display connected to the video integration platform, a client interacting with the central storage device, a central management server and a surveillance management terminal, the surveillance center being used for coding device management, video surveillance configuration, video surveillance application, video cascading.

5. The video surveillance system of claim 4, wherein the surveillance center is configured to encode device management, including batch import and export of supported devices, configuration of device connection parameters, and addition, deletion, and modification of devices, including synchronization of device names, device serial numbers, and device information from the surveillance center to the devices or from the devices to the surveillance center; the method comprises the steps that the name of a monitoring point is synchronized to equipment from a monitoring center or synchronized to the monitoring center from the equipment; the method supports IP channel configuration of NVR, including adding and deleting a front-end encoder; supporting the operations of adding, deleting, changing and searching monitoring points; supporting parameter configuration of monitoring points, including OSD configuration, video image display channel name, time, date and week; character overlapping configuration, wherein at most 4 character strings are overlapped to a video picture; video parameter configuration, code stream type, resolution, code rate type, image quality and video frame rate; privacy protection setting, video shielding alarm configuration, mobile detection configuration and video loss alarm configuration; and/or the configuration of the alarm is supported, and the configuration comprises the increasing, deleting, checking operation and alarm input and output configuration of the alarm so as to realize the applications of real-time monitoring, video playback, picture inquiry, television wall and the like.

6. The video surveillance system of claim 4, characterized in that the surveillance center is used for video surveillance configuration, including central storage management and configuration, supporting centralized management of central storage resources, using CVM for cloud storage, and central storage management including physical resource management, storage domain management, and storage resource pool management, wherein the physical resource management supports operations of adding, deleting, modifying, and checking cloud storage of central storage devices, and supports import of devices; the method comprises the steps of supporting storage equipment state display, including an online state, a storage capacity, a residual capacity, a channel access path number, a CPU utilization rate and a memory utilization rate; the disk information and state check of the storage equipment are supported; the storage domain management supports the operations of adding, deleting, modifying and searching the storage domain and stores the storage domain in the cloud storage domain; the cloud storage is used for managing cloud storage resources, and one cloud storage domain is intelligently associated with one cloud storage resource; supporting the stored state display, including the domain type, the number of devices, the total capacity and the residual capacity; the resource pool management supports the operation of adding, deleting, changing and searching the resource pool; and the state display of the resource pool is supported, and comprises a storage state, a resource pool type, a utilization rate and an access path number.

7. The video surveillance system of claim 4, wherein the surveillance center is configured for video schedule configuration, including central storage and equipment-stored surveillance video storage; supporting the display of a monitoring video plan, wherein the display comprises a storage state, a storage position and a video plan template type; supporting batch copying of the video plan, displaying the copying progress of the video plan by batch copying, and displaying the total plan number and the finished number; supporting equipment storage, wherein the code stream type can be selected from a main code stream or a sub code stream; and the configuration of the storage time length of the video is supported, and the storage time length is selected. The device storage supports simultaneous storage of video and audio recordings; supporting a center to store, selecting a main code stream or a sub code stream according to the type of the stored code stream, and selecting a direct-connected device to access a stream or accessing the stream through a device DAC (digital-to-analog converter) in a stream access mode; the video plan configuration detail configuration comprises video plan template configuration support, wherein the video plan template configuration support comprises an all-weather storage template, a working day storage template and a weekend template by default, and the video plan template self-definition support; the method supports the export of the video plan details of all monitoring points in the system; the snapshot plan configuration is used for configuring the snapshot frequency and time point of the monitoring point when the monitoring point is subjected to picture monitoring or the front end is subjected to snapshot retention record, and the snapshot plan configuration comprises the support of adding, deleting and modifying the snapshot plan of the monitoring point; and the method supports the snapshot according to two plan types of time periods and time points. The time interval of the grab can be customized according to the time period of the grab, and the time interval can be selected within 24 hours; the time points of the drawing of each week can be defined by drawing at time intervals; supporting the configuration of a grapple plan template, wherein the grapple plan template comprises a time period template and a time point template; supporting the configuration of the quality of the grabbing graph, selecting general, better or best; media configuration, which is used for performing unified management scheduling on all media resources and performing media positioning, including the current-level preview playback, and is used for the preview of the current-level monitoring point and the stream fetching configuration of the equipment storage playback; the cascade preview playback is used for the preview and playback streaming configuration of the cascade monitoring points; the central storage playback is used for the central storage playback stream fetching configuration of the current-level monitoring point; code stream transfer processing is used for cross-network transfer and format conversion of the code stream of the mobile terminal; media scheduling, which comprises supporting automatic matching of an optimal media link according to a media intelligent scheduling strategy and a media load balancing condition to provide an optimal media stream taking path; the device event arming and disarming system is used for carrying out batch arming and disarming management on the universal events reported by the devices, and comprises batch arming and batch disarming control supporting mobile detection, video loss, video shielding, alarm input and alarm output events; supporting the batch configuration of an event arming and disarming plan for monitoring points; supporting the configuration of a defense deployment and withdrawal plan template; and supporting the exhibition of the arming and disarming states of the events of the monitoring points, including the arming plan type and the arming and disarming states.

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The video surveillance system of claim 4, characterized in that the surveillance center is further used for video surveillance applications, including video real-time previews, including basic video previews, video parameter controls, previews of view modes, real-time talkback of the surveillance center to the camera talkback channel where the surveillance point is located, mass broadcasts, and real-time pan-tilt control of the surveillance point with pan-tilt capability; the basic video preview is used for supporting the WEB browser and the CS client to preview real-time pictures of the monitoring points in a video control mode; direct connection preview and non-direct connection preview switching are supported; the configuration of the number of the reconnection times and the reconnection time interval is supported; a video decoding mode supporting hard solution and software switching; opening intelligent rules including warning lines and regions when previewing is supported; supporting the layout switching of a video playing window; supporting auxiliary screen preview; supporting double-click area nodes to check all monitoring points in the area, wherein the display number of the monitoring points is the current window segmentation number; the method supports batch closing of preview windows, window self-adaption and full-screen playing; the monitoring point previewing picture is supported to carry out operations of picture capture, sound opening/closing, electronic amplification, main and sub code stream switching and code stream information checking; supporting a monitoring point to preview toolbar definition configuration; the method supports picture monitoring on the monitoring points configured with the snap plans; supporting emergency video recording in a video preview picture for recording and proving abnormal problems; the method supports instant playback in real-time preview, and is used for quickly confirming when abnormal conditions are found in preview; supporting time-limited preview, or restarting countdown when selecting continuous preview; supporting the grouped polling of the monitoring points, performing polling display on the video pictures of the monitoring points according to a preset polling time interval, a sequence of the monitoring points in polling groups and a default window layout, and supporting polling group management, including adding, deleting polling groups, adjusting time intervals and a polling sequence of the monitoring points; the view preview comprises the steps of supporting the storage of the corresponding relation between the monitoring points and the playing window in a view form and the layout format of the window, and performing the grouping management and the rapid preview of the monitoring points by using the view; supporting view management with a common view and a private view; supporting view management configuration, including management of view groups, adding, deleting, moving positions of views, modifying monitoring points of the views and layout of windows in the view groups; the control of the pan-tilt and the video parameters comprises the support of pan-tilt control on a monitoring point with a pan-tilt function; in the monitoring preview state, the direction of the cradle head is controlled by opening the cradle head or clicking a cradle head control button of a monitoring point preview toolbar; the control of multiplying power, the adjustment of a focus and an aperture, the control of light, the control of a windshield wiper, one-key focusing and 3D amplification are realized through the control support of a holder; supporting the setting and starting of a prefabrication point, and carrying out cruise path setting and prefabrication point cruise control according to the set prefabrication point; track recording and track playing are supported; supporting the configuration of the grade authority of the holder and the configuration of the operation authority duration of the holder; the method supports the overlapping and displaying of the user information of the operating holder on the video picture; supporting the adjustment of video parameters of monitoring points, including brightness, chroma, contrast and saturation; the video playback is used for inquiring and playing the historical video, controlling the picture flow and downloading the segments, comprises basic video playback and is used for supporting two modes of a WEB browser and a CS client, and the historical video picture of the monitoring point is played back in the form of a video control; the method supports inquiry according to the types of videos, and comprises plan video recording, alarm video recording and mobile detection, and other types of videos except the three types are checked when the videos are played; and the inquiry is supported according to the video storage type, and comprises equipment storage and central storage. The method supports the layout switching of a video playback window, and supports the image capture, sound opening/closing, electronic amplification and code stream information check of a video playback picture; the method supports searching videos according to time periods and locating videos according to time points; the method supports the flow control operation of the video playback picture, including forward playing, reverse playing, double-speed reverse playing, slow reverse playing, single frame stepping and single frame stepping backward; the method supports the addition of labels and description information to the video, and can search video clips according to the types, the description information and the marking time range of the labels; the method supports locking and unlocking the video clip, and the locked video time period and the locked time length can be selected; the zooming of the video range of the video progress bar is supported; supporting video playback to start intelligent information, including a warning line and an area; downloading and editing the video, supporting searching, deleting, pausing and continuing operations of the video downloading task, supporting batch downloading starting and all pausing operations of the downloading task, and supporting filtering according to the downloading task state; video clips are supported, single video download/clip size setting is supported.

9. The video surveillance system of claim 4, characterized in that the surveillance center is further configured for video cascading functions, including cascading/interconnection between platforms, providing basic networking functions of registration discovery, heartbeat detection, pan-tilt control, real-time monitoring, clock synchronization, and/or extended networking functions of directory active push, organizational structure presentation, real-time resource synchronization, selective resource sharing, media keep-alive, and authority control.