EP2898487A2

EP2898487A2 - Safety reporting network and method for operating the safety reporting network

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Publication number: EP2898487A2
Application number: EP13766045.2A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Michael Guertner; Andreas Baumann; Kilian RUESS
Original assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
Current assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
Priority date: 2012-09-24
Filing date: 2013-09-20
Publication date: 2015-07-29
Also published as: CN105103204A; DE102012217127A1; WO2014044825A3; CN105103204B; US20150287302A1; WO2014044825A2

Abstract

The invention relates to a safety reporting network 1 having a local area monitoring network 2 for a monitoring object 3, wherein the at least one local area monitoring network 2 has at least one monitoring camera 7, wherein the monitoring camera 7 is designed to output an event notice E, having a first network 5 and a central safety control device 13, wherein the local area monitoring network 2 is connected to the central safety control device 13 via the first network 5 for the purpose of data interchange, wherein the event notice E is transmitted to the central safety control device 13 via the first network 5, having a second network 18 and at least one agent device 19 that is connected to the central safety control device 13 via the second network 18, wherein the event notice E or an event notice E' processed on the basis of the event notice is transmitted to the agent device 19 as an alarm notice A, wherein the safety reporting network 1 has a plurality of local area monitoring networks 2, wherein the plurality of local area monitoring networks 2 are associated with different monitoring objects 3.

Description

description

title

Security network and method of operation of the

Security alarm network

State of the art

The invention relates to a security network with the features of the preamble of claim 1.

Surveillance cameras are often used to monitor buildings or other large areas. In the simplest case, precisely one surveillance camera is provided in a surveillance area, the image data of which is forwarded to a monitoring center and checked there. In more complex surveillance areas, a plurality of surveillance cameras are usually installed. The image data streams of the surveillance cameras are often combined in a monitoring center and there checked by monitoring personnel.

Document DE 10 2007 054 819 A1, which is probably the closest prior art, discloses a monitoring system with a plurality of surveillance cameras, wherein the image data streams of the surveillance cameras are optionally directed to and displayed on a plurality of monitors with the interposition of digital image processing algorithms , Furthermore, the monitoring system includes a workstation for an observer who monitors the image data streams displayed on the monitors.

Disclosure of the invention In the context of the invention, a security network with the features of claim 1 and a corresponding method with the features of claim 13 is proposed. Preferred or advantageous embodiments of the invention will become apparent from the dependent claims, the following description and the accompanying drawings.

The security reporting network according to the invention - also referred to as a security network system or security network system - is suitable and / or designed to carry out a monitoring, in particular with regard to a burglary, an alarm or other criteria.

The security reporting network includes at least one monitoring local network for a monitoring object - or in an operational state - in a monitoring object.

In the context of the invention, a surveillance object is preferably understood to mean a monitoring area that belongs together in terms of content. In particular, the surveillance object is considered to be a related building complex, e.g. a hospital facility, an airport facility, a public or private building, etc. trained. The monitoring object has the local monitoring network installed or installed.

In particular, the local monitoring network is a network in which the network subscribers have local addresses, in particular local IP addresses. Particularly preferably, the local

Monitoring network a router as an interface. In particular, the monitoring network is designed as a LAN - Local Area Network.

The at least one local monitoring network has at least one surveillance camera as a network participant. Optionally, in addition, the local monitoring network comprises further monitoring devices, such as e.g. Motion detector or fire detector.

The surveillance camera includes a network interface for connection to the local surveillance network. The surveillance camera includes a

Data processing device, which is formed on the basis of digital Image processing automatically analyze the recorded by the surveillance camera monitoring images. The surveillance camera is designed in particular as a so-called "intelligent" surveillance camera. In the event that the evaluation according to a set of rules results in a special feature in the monitoring area, this feature is treated as an event situation (event). The surveillance camera is designed to output an event message - also called event messages - upon detection of the event situation. The event message is output to the surveillance network of the surveillance camera.

The event message is defined as a message about an event, ie an event. The event message includes data that characterizes the event and may include any selection of the subsequent data, such as a. Time of the event (e.g., time / date), position of the event (e.g., room X), sender of the event (e.g., monitor Y), type of event (e.g.

Burglary, fire, moving object, temperature rise)

It is possible, for example, for the surveillance camera to detect moving objects in front of a static scene background and to detect an event situation in the presence of a moving object. It is also possible that according to the rules only an event situation is detected when the moving object enters a restricted area or crosses a barrier line. Further possibilities for the detection of event situations by means of digital image processing in surveillance cameras are shown for example in the document DE 102007053812 of the applicant with further references.

The security reporting network comprises a first network and a central security control device, wherein the local monitoring network is connected to the central security control device via the first network or can be connected, and wherein the event message is transmitted via the first network to the central security control device. The first network may, for example, be in the form of a public Internet, in modified embodiments the first network may also be designed as be implemented a telephone connection or other data connection. Particularly preferably, the first network is designed as a private network, which is provided by an ISP (Internet Service Provider).

The security reporting network further comprises a second network and at least one agent device which is connected to the central security control device via the second network. The security control device is particularly preferably designed as a server, which can be reached via the first and the second network. The first and second networks may be similar. However, it is preferred that the second network be implemented as an intranet so that the agent devices are also located in close proximity to the security controller.

The security reporting network is configured to transmit the event message or an event message processed on the basis of the event message as an alarm message to the at least one agent device. In particular, the event message is transmitted from the surveillance camera, via the first network, via the security control device and as an alarm message, to the at least one agent device.

The agent devices are preferably designed as workstations, in particular computer workstations, for monitoring personnel. The

Agent devices allow the alarm to be processed by the monitoring personnel.

In the context of the invention, it is proposed that the security reporting network has a plurality of local monitoring networks, the majority of the local surveillance networks being assigned to different surveillance objects.

While it has hitherto been customary for exactly one local monitoring network to be associated with exactly one safety control device, it is proposed according to the invention to provide the safety control device centralize or set up a global security controller in conjunction with a plurality of local monitoring networks.

The advantage of the invention lies in the fact that the security control device and the agent devices can be realized at any position, in particular detached from the local surveillance network. Thus, a plurality of local monitoring networks and consequently a plurality of monitoring objects can be managed by a central security control device and the agent devices connected thereto.

The security network architecture makes it possible to save plant components, in particular so-called hardware, since a separate safety control device does not have to be set up for each local monitoring network. In addition, the agent devices can also be centrally organized so that agent devices and, if appropriate, the monitoring personnel operating the agent devices can be centrally organized. The central organization has the further advantage that e.g. Training of the monitoring personnel and further developments of the agent facility, the

Safety control device etc. can be implemented quickly.

The advantages of the invention are particularly pronounced when the different monitoring objects are arranged spatially separated from one another. For example, it is easily conceivable that the

Monitoring objects more than 10 km, preferably more than 20 km and in particular more than 50 km apart. Nevertheless, it is possible to use the architecture to run the monitoring of the various monitoring objects centrally via the global safety control device.

Alternatively or additionally, the monitoring objects can also be assigned to different monitoring object types. Monitoring object types are the different tasks of the monitoring objects. For example, it is conceivable that via the central safety control device: police building

Fire fighting equipment

Airports

stations

warehouses

etc. are cared for.

Optionally, the security control device comprises a management module, wherein the management module is configured to assign accounts or accounts for the different monitoring objects and / or groups of surveillance objects that can be assigned to different clients, so that the support and thus monitoring of the surveillance objects as a central service also to different Client can be offered. In particular, the accounts or accounts include data on the different contacts, monitoring objects, monitoring policies and other configuration data.

In one possible development of the invention, the security control device comprises an event processing module for processing the incoming event messages and for outputting the alarm message or processed event messages. The event processing module particularly preferably uses a set of rules or the rules and regulations stored in the management module for the respective monitoring object. The policy includes alert rules, e.g. in terms of an arming time for the activation of the monitoring, logical linking of events etc.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the at least one agent device is designed to process and / or evaluate the event message with user action by a monitoring personnel as a user. In particular, the agent device is designed to record the event message To cancel and / or verify the basis of the result of the processing / evaluation.

It is also possible for the agent device to be configured to request further information about the alarm message from the surveillance camera which has issued the associated event message. In particular, the agent device is designed to display the further information and to evaluate it with user interaction. As part of a possible development of the invention, it is proposed that the security network has at least one client device, wherein the client device is designed as a mobile terminal, in particular as a mobile phone. It is further preferably claimed that the agent device comprises a request module configured to send an alarm message and a verification request to the client device and to receive a response of the client device to the verification request. The verification request is a request to the user of the client device whether the alert is acknowledged or discarded as a false alarm. Particularly preferably, the request module forms an integral part of

Agents facility. Alternatively or additionally, provision is made for the alarm message and / or the verification request to be output automatically by the request module on the basis of the alarm message and the user interaction.

The advantage of the development can be seen in the fact that the monitoring personnel, as users of the at least one agent device, can include a user of the client device, in particular of the mobile telephone, in the verification of alarm situations. As a result, the monitoring personnel can secure themselves and avoids superfluous interventions, which can be very costly depending on the intervention partner (fire brigade, police, etc.). Surveillance personnel can stop the alarm faster and with greater reliability. In addition, an end user as a user of the client device and receiver of the alarm message as well as the verification request feels integrated into the process and thus confirmed in the security system. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the sending of the alarm message and the verification request can be triggered by user interaction. In this embodiment, it is not a parallel signal path, wherein an alarm notification is sent both to the agent device and to the client device, but to a serial signal path, in particular a signal chain, wherein in the signal path first in the agent device user interaction must be done to trigger the sending of the alarm message and the verification request to the client device. The advantage of this embodiment is to be seen in particular in the fact that the end user receives only alarm messages and verification requests of event situations as users of the client device, which have already been pretested by user interaction in the agent device, in particular manually pretested, so that only highly relevant event situations in the form of alarm messages and Verification requests are sent to the client device.

In a preferred embodiment, it is provided that the alarm message contains some or all of the following data:

- Details of the event underlying the alarm message, in particular the time of the event (eg time / date), position of the event (eg room X), sender of the event (eg monitoring device Y), type of event (eg burglary, fire, moving object , Temperature rise).

- Pictures of the event underlying the alarm message, especially a still picture or frame of the event.

In a preferred development of the invention, the client device is designed to send verification information to the agent device in response to the verification request. In particular, the reaction occurs with user interaction by the end user.

In a preferred specific embodiment of the invention, the client device on a software, in particular an app, which is programmatically designed to display on a screen of the client device a selection of Verifizierungsentworten and by the Let end users select. For example, three different verification responses are displayed on the screen of the client device, which are selectable by touch-screen or other man-machine interface and sent as verification information to the agent device.

In one possible embodiment of the system architecture, provision is made for the local monitoring network to communicate with the security control device via a first network, the security control device via the second network with the at least one agent device, and the client device via a third network with the security control device connectable and / or connected. The security reporting network is particularly preferably designed to send the verification request from the agent device via the second network to the security control device and subsequently from the security control device via the third network to the client device. The third network may be of the same kind as the first network or the second network, but may in particular also be a telephone connection.

In a preferred embodiment or a development of the invention, the transmission of the verification request and / or the alarm message via the so-called push notification technology of smartphones takes place as a training of mobile phones. The use of push notification technology has the advantage that the user of the client device does not need to have the corresponding software or app constantly activated, but that the software or app must be activated by the push notification service of the client device if required , in particular at the entrance of the push notification is activated.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention it is provided that together with the alarm message and / or the verification request monitoring image information is transmitted to the monitoring event to the client device, so that the first image data for displaying the monitoring event are loaded in a first display mode. The surveillance camera is configured to output monitoring image information for a monitoring event. The monitoring image information comprises one or more surveillance images, wherein the surveillance images have a quality level. The quality level may preferably refer to a resolution of the surveillance images, and the quality level may relate to a compression of the surveillance images. Thus, usually a low resolution and / or a high compression results in a low quality level and a high resolution and / or a low compression leads to a low quality level of the surveillance images. Furthermore, the quality level can be influenced by the spatial resolution, grayscale resolution of the pixels, color step, grayscale or black-and-white representation, size of the image section. The security reporting network is designed to

Surveillance image information to the monitoring event to the at least one agent direction and / or to the at least one client device - hereinafter collectively referred to as user device - to transfer. In particular, the surveillance image information is transmitted from the surveillance camera, via the first network, over the

Security control device and the other network transmitted to the user device.

The transmission is performed such that first image data for displaying the monitoring event is loaded in a first display manner in the agent device. The first image data is thus sufficient to represent the monitoring event in the first display mode on the user equipment. It is suggested as an optional supplement that the

Security network is formed that automatically and / or independently further monitoring image information is loaded to the monitoring event, so that second image data for displaying the monitoring event are loaded in a second display mode, the second image data more information content and / or a larger amount of data than the first image data , The supplement is based on the consideration that the transmitting networks are often bandwidth-limited. In particular, in the case of long transmission paths, it is to be expected that at least one serial-arranged data transmission section has only a small bandwidth, so that those necessary for the display of the monitoring event

Monitoring image information may not be arbitrarily large. Against this background, the invention proposes that initially the first image data is loaded into the user device in order to display the monitoring event with a low information content and / or a small amount of data.

This step can be implemented quickly so that the monitoring event can be displayed promptly on the user device. In a second step, further monitoring image information is loaded so that second image data is present in the user equipment, the second image data allowing a second type of display providing more details about the image

Include monitoring event.

It is possible that the second image data is independent or separate from the first image data. However, it is also within the scope of the supplement that by successive reloading of further monitoring image information, the first

Image data to create the second image data in this way.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the second image data has a larger number of monitoring images than the first

Image data. Particularly preferably, it is provided that the first image data represent only one single image and the second image data show a video sequence, in particular a clip, ie a sequence of temporally successive image data. In this embodiment, the single image can be displayed on the user device first and very quickly. While that

Single image already by a user, in particular a monitoring personnel or by a control person, can be checked, more monitoring image information is reloaded. As a result, a video sequence or a clip of the monitoring event is available in a timely manner, which can be rewound forwards and backwards, for example.

The video sequence has a higher information content, but at the same time one larger amount of data. In a concrete embodiment, for example, a single image in jpg compression with a size of 20 KB, for example, within a time of one second is transmitted as the first image data. As a second image data, a video sequence is transmitted, which represents, for example, 5 seconds before and after the event and which, for example, a size between 100 and

5000 kB. The transmission - especially at low transmission bandwidth - the second image data is for example 5 to 30 minutes. Due to the progressive information structure of the security network is preferably achieved that the user at any time depending on the bandwidth of the interposed

Networks the most meaningful image data are available.

In a possible development or alternative of the invention, the second image data has a greater resolution and / or a smaller compression than the first image data. In addition to or in addition to the number of

Thus, monitoring images can distinguish the image data in terms of the quality level, that is to say in particular with regard to the resolution and / or the strength of the compression. It is assumed that the accuracy of the image data and thus the quality level will decrease as a result of greater compression.

In one possible development of the invention, the security reporting network can be configured such that further quality levels are loaded onto image data. Thus, it is possible within the scope of the invention that also third, fourth, etc. image data for display in a third, fourth, etc.

Display mode are loaded. It should be noted, however, that in a general presentation, the (n) th image data has more information content and / or a larger amount of data than the (n-1) th image data. In this way, the surveillance image information from the surveillance camera to the user device are successively loaded until they are there in the highest possible resolution. In the general representation, n = 2 and (n-1) = 1.

In particular, provision can be made for third image data to comprise the original data of the monitoring event of the surveillance camera. In a preferred

Embodiment can thus be provided that in a first type of display Still picture is shown; as soon as the transmission of the still image has ended, the further monitoring image information for the second type of display, in particular in the form of a video sequence, is automatically reloaded. As soon as the second image data is complete, the still image is automatically exchanged for the video sequence, so that the monitoring personnel or the user can operate a forward and reverse run around the monitoring event. As soon as the loading of the further monitoring image information for the second display mode has ended, further monitoring image information for the third display type is reloaded. The third type of display relates to the original data and therefore has the largest amount of data and the highest quality. Once the original data is loaded, the second type of display is automatically exchanged for the third type of display so that the surveillance personnel or the user can now operate in forward and reverse run at a high quality.

In a possible development of the invention, it is proposed that the security network comprises the client device or a further client device. The client device is designed as a mobile phone, in particular as a smartphone. In particular, the mobile telephone comprises a screen on which image data can be displayed. The mobile phone is in particular connected via a public telephone network data technology or connectable.

The client device includes at least one sensor for receiving environmental data. The sensor is designed in particular as a camera, in particular as a video camera, or as a microphone. The environment data are image data of the environment of the client device or recordings of acoustic signals in the environment of the client device.

The client device comprises at least one input device for inputting commands. The input device can be designed as one or more mechanical or virtual control buttons, as a touch-sensitive screen or as a voice input device for inputting acoustic commands. The client device further comprises a control device, which is designed program-technically and / or circuit-wise, in response to an input of at least one start command as one of the commands to record environmental data from an event situation - event situation - with the sensor to record or continue recording and the environment data in to submit the security reporting network. The control device thus interprets the start command as a trigger for recording or continuing the recording of the environment data from the event situation. Particularly preferably, software, in particular an app, is installed on the client device, which converts the said functions and the following functions programmatically.

The event situation is, in particular, an ambient state that makes a message to the security reporting network meaningful. The event situation may be, for example, the detection of strangers in a surveillance area or the outbreak of a fire.

In the context of the development, it is proposed that the start command is designed as a quick start command, wherein after entering the quick start command, a mobile event message is sent to the security reporting network. In addition, the environmental data of the event situation are recorded or further recorded and transmitted simultaneously or with a short time offset less than 5 seconds, preferably less than 3 seconds and in particular less than 1 second in the security network. In particular, the environmental data of the event situation are transmitted to the security reporting network together with the mobile event message.

After the input of the quick start command, the three actions, in particular synchronously and / temporally overlapping, are carried out automatically or automatically, in particular in a time interval of less than 5 s, preferably less than 3 s and in particular less than 1 s:

1 . Transmission of the mobile monitoring message

2. Recording the event situation (or the monitoring area with the event situation) with the sensor

3. Immediate transmission of environmental data The mobile event message is defined as a message about the event situation. The mobile event message includes event data that characterize the event situation and may include any selection of the following data, such as time of the event situation (eg time / date), position of the event situation (eg GPS coordinates of the client device with an integrated GPS sensor), Sender of the event message (eg client device Y / phone number), type of event situation (eg burglary, fire, moving object, temperature increase).

In addition, the detection of the event situation is not performed by an evaluation, but by the user of the client device. As soon as the user of the client device recognizes an event situation, a mobile event message and, secondly, the current environment data of the event situation are recorded via the quick start command and at the same time or as quickly as possible transmitted to the security reporting network. The short time offset is largely due to technical considerations, since it is often necessary to buffer the environment data to transfer environmental data. It is also possible that the environment data is compressed to speed up the transmission, also from this approach results in a short time offset.

The advantage of the development is that the user with the client device at the same time a mobile event message, e.g. as an emergency call, along with the

Environment data of the event situation in the security network can transmit. It is not necessary for an evaluation device to automatically analyze the environmental data first. As a result, the mobile event message together with the surrounding data can be fed into the security reporting network more quickly, which is advantageous, for example, if the user subsequently comes into a distressed situation. The client device also makes it possible to issue the mobile event message with high process reliability without having to rely on an evaluation device correctly evaluating the environment data and recognizing the event situation. In particular, it is possible for the user of the

Client device discovered an event situation based on human intuition, however, the evaluation device does not recognize these due to the evaluation algorithms. As a result of the immediate dispatch of the mobile event message together with the surrounding data, the security of the user in dangerous situations is possibly even increased.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the quick start command is designed as a wipe command on a touch screen as the input device. In particular, the wipe command is defined such that it can not be caused by accidental contact. Particularly preferably, the wipe command is defined with at least one change of direction. For example, it is conceivable that a large L must be drawn on the screen or the wipe command even with two or three changes of direction, e.g. how to enter a U or a W It is also possible for the quick start command to be implemented as a "swype" input, with more than two, three, four or five positions having to be traversed on the touch-sensitive screen with one continuous movement, the positions of three consecutive points not being up lie on a common line.

Since the transmission of the mobile event message together with environmental data can lead to an intervention of the security network in the surveillance area of the mobile phone, ie to activate protective or countermeasures and / or to contact rescue and / or security forces, e.g. Police or fire department, this design ensures that the quick start command can not be accidentally entered. Alternatively or additionally, the quick start command is entered by a separate, separate button (emergency call button). This embodiment has the advantage that the probability of incorrect entries is further reduced, but it is not possible in this embodiment to use commercially available mobile phones.

The mobile event message is preferably similar in terms of data technology or even identical to the event message. The event message is defined as a message about an event, ie an event. It is particularly preferred in this connection that the event processing module of the security control device is designed to process the incoming event messages and the incoming mobile event messages and - depending on a set of rules - to output an alarm message. It is a particular advantage of the embodiment that event messages and mobile event messages can be processed similarly by the security control device. With this architecture, it is thus possible to integrate the client device as a further monitoring device in terms of data technology analogous to the other monitoring devices in the security network.

Another object of the invention relates to a method having the features of claim 13.

Further features, advantages and effects of the invention will become apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments of the invention and the accompanying figures. Showing:

Figure 1 is a schematic block diagram of a security network as an embodiment of the invention;

FIGS. 2a, b, c show a schematic flow diagram for explaining the

Method of progressive information transmission;

FIGS. 3a, b, c show a schematic flowchart for illustrating the generation of the monitoring image information for the progressive information structure;

Figure 4 is an exemplary representation of an alarm message on a

Agent device of the security network in the figure 1;

Figure 5 is a schematic block diagram of a security reporting network as a further embodiment of the invention;

Figure 6 is a schematic block diagram of a security network as a further embodiment of the invention. Identical or corresponding components, sizes, signals, etc. are each provided with the same or corresponding reference numerals in the figures.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic block diagram of a security reporting network 1 as an exemplary embodiment of the invention. The security reporting network 1 comprises a plurality of local monitoring networks 2, which are installed in different monitoring objects 3.

Each of the local monitoring networks 2 is designed as a local network and defines one or at least one local domain. The local monitoring network 2 is z. B. realized as a LAN or as a WLAN. Each of the network subscribers in the local monitoring network 2 has a local IP address. The local monitoring network 2 has an interface 4 to a first network 5, wherein before the interface 4, a router 6 is interposed. In particular, the local monitoring network 2 is an exclusively private network and the first network 5 is an Tier 3 or Tier 2 or Tier 1 network. Each of the local surveillance networks 2 comprises at least one surveillance camera 7, which is designed to monitor a surveillance area 8 in the surveillance object 3.

The monitoring objects 3 are spatially independent of each other and can be positioned, for example, at a distance greater than 10 km, 20 km or greater than 50 km from each other. It may be monitoring objects 3 from different companies as the client. These are treated with different accounts or accounts in security reporting network 1. They may also be monitoring objects 3 of different types. Thus, it is possible that a monitoring object 3 is an airport, another monitoring object 3 is a railway station, another monitoring object 3 is a warehouse, etc. In the security reporting network 1 any monitoring objects 3 are added. The monitoring objects 3 are to be understood in particular as logical units. The surveillance cameras 7 each have a network interface 9, via which the surveillance cameras in the local surveillance network 2 can communicate. The surveillance cameras 7 are designed as intelligent surveillance cameras 7, which each comprise a data processing device 10 and a local memory device 11. The surveillance cameras 7 are designed to process the recorded surveillance images in the data processing device 10 by means of digital image processing and to store surveillance images in the local memory device 11. Furthermore, the surveillance cameras 7 comprise a set of rules 12 with alarm rules, so that the surveillance cameras 7, after analysis of the surveillance images by the data processing device 10, can deliver an event message E to the local surveillance network 2.

The first network 5 is based on the Internet protocol and may be designed as a public Internet in a first alternative embodiment. Alternatively, the first network 5 is designed as a private IP network, wherein all interfaces 4 of the first network 5 are assigned exclusively to the private IP network and the private IP network is in particular separated from the public Internet by data technology. Alternatively, the first network 5 may also be configured as a local area network (LAN) or as a wide area network (WAN). In particular, the first network 5 implements a secure TCP connection.

The security reporting network 1 comprises an in particular central or global security control device 13, which is e.g. is designed as a server or as a server farm. The safety control device 13 is connected via one of the interfaces 4 to the first network 5 and thus to the local monitoring networks 2 of the different monitoring objects 3.

The safety control device 13 comprises a management module 14, an event processing module 15, a database for event and sensor data 16, an archive 17 for surveillance images of the surveillance camera 7 and an infrastructure management module 26 for the registration of the monitoring devices, in particular the surveillance cameras 7. The management module 14 is designed to manage different clients with different monitoring objects 3. The principals are, in particular, companies that are economically or legally independent and that use the security reporting network 1 to monitor their surveillance objects 3. The monitoring objects 3 to be monitored and the configuration data of the local monitoring networks 2 of the monitoring objects 3 are thus stored in the management module 14 for each client. Furthermore, data for monitoring the monitored objects 3 are stored, such as alarm and notification rules, contact persons, contact person details, such as e-mail, telephone number, address, etc. The management module 14 allows any monitoring objects 3 of new or existing clients flexible in the Security network 1 to integrate.

The safety control device 13 further comprises the event processing module 15, which processes and evaluates the event messages E of the surveillance cameras 7 or the subsequently described mobile event messages MUE according to a set of rules. In particular, the event processing module 15 accesses the alarm rules in the management module 14, in which they are defined individually and / or on a per-client basis for each surveillance object 3. The alarm rules include, for example, an arming schedule for monitoring, logical linking of events, execution of multiple actions, etc. The event processing module 15 outputs a processed event message as alarm message A as a result of the processing.

Furthermore, the safety control device 13 includes the database 16 for storage and logging of all events and sensor data. In addition, the security control device 13, the archive 17 for original surveillance images, but for reasons of memory not all surveillance images, but only surveillance images, which are associated with an event, are stored in the archive 17. The safety control device 13 is connected via a second network 18 with one or more agent devices 19 via an output interface 20 data technology.

The second network 18 may correspond to the first network 5. Alternatively, it is possible for the second network 18 to be embodied as an intranet or as another variant of the first network 5. However, it can also be designed as a private IP network.

The agent devices 19 in their entirety form a control center 21 or a monitoring center. In the control center 21, a plurality of such agent devices 19 are usually arranged so that the control center 21 can be scaled as a function of the number and the size of the monitoring objects 3. The agent devices 19 are designed in particular as workstations for monitoring personnel 22.

The agent devices 19 receive the event message E or the event message E 'processed via the event processing module 15 or the alarm message A, the messages E, Ε', A being displayed on the agent devices 19 so that they are transmitted by the monitoring personnel 22 can be edited. The agent devices 19 are designed to implement different procedures in the processing by the monitoring personnel 22.

Thus, it is possible for the supervisor 22 to cancel the message E, Ε ', A if it is judged by the supervisor 22 to be a false alarm. Furthermore, it is possible that the message E, Ε ', A is verified as an alarm, wherein after the alarm verification by the monitoring personnel 22, an external alarm is triggered either via the control center 21 or the safety control device 13. Thirdly, it is possible that the agent devices 19 make it possible to request or automatically reload further information from the surveillance cameras 7 to the message E, Ε ', A. The safety control device 13 has another

Output interface 23 which is connected to a third network 24 is. The third network 24 may be similar in nature to the first network 5 and the second network 18, but may in particular also be a telephone connection or a wireless connection. Via the third network 24, a plurality of client devices 25 can be reached, which are designed, for example, as mobile phones / smart phones (in general mobile terminal).

The agent device 19 receives in addition to the event message E, E 'or the alarm message A monitoring image information to the monitoring event. This results in a field of tension, since on the one hand the

Monitoring image information should be transmitted as quickly as possible, so that an event message / alarm message can be processed by the agent devices 19 as soon as possible. On the other hand, the monitoring image information should be as accurate as possible so that the evaluation by the monitoring personnel 22 on the agent device 19 is as precise as possible. In this context, a progressive information transmission of monitoring image information from the surveillance camera 7 to the agent device 19 or - with the same motivation - to the client devices 25 is selected.

The monitoring image information is transmitted in the embodiment shown in three different quality levels Q1, Q2 and Q3. FIGS. 2 a, b, c show in a schematic way the transmission of the

Monitoring image information. It can be seen in FIG. 2a that, starting from the surveillance camera 7, monitoring image information in a first quality level Q1 is transmitted to the security control device 13 via the first network 5. From there, the monitoring image information Q1 is optionally forwarded to the agent devices 19 or to the client devices 25, specifically via the second network 18 or the third network 24.

The monitoring image information of the first quality level Q1 comprises first image data which is used to display the monitoring event in a first

Display type are formed. The first type of display is a still image display and the first image data is a single image, eg in a jpg format, of the surveillance event. Such a jpeg file has a file size of 30 to 50 kB and can be transmitted quickly even with low network bandwidths. It is thus possible for the monitoring event in the first display mode to be displayed already after a period of less than 5 seconds, for example within one second, from the initiation of the monitoring event in the first display mode.

Figure 4 is a diagrammatic representation of the screen 27 of a monitor of one of the agent devices 19. The screen 27 shows an alarm message A, with data in the upper area relating to the alarm message A, e.g. the date, the time, the address of the alarm-triggering device, are shown. The

Monitoring image information of the first quality level Q1 is displayed on the left side as a still image as the first display type.

While the monitoring personnel 22 already has the possibility of studying the monitoring image information of the first quality level Q1, as already shown in FIG. 2b, a low resolution / high compression video sequence is already present in the background as further monitoring image information in a second quality level Q2 User device 19 or the client device 25 transmitted. The further monitoring image information allows the representation of the monitoring event as a video sequence or a clip, for example providing a range of +/- 5 seconds around the actual monitoring event. As soon as the further monitoring image information is loaded, the still image is exchanged for the video sequence as the second display mode, so that the monitoring personnel 22 from that moment on, to analyze the monitoring scene at the monitoring event time point more accurately. The video sequence has a file size of a few 100 KB, so that the image data for the second display mode are available even with low transmission bandwidths within a few minutes, in particular less than 5 minutes. As can be seen in particular from FIG. 2c, in a third step, the

Monitoring image information Q3 downloaded in a third quality level, which corresponds to the original data of the monitoring event. The transmission of the monitoring image information Q3 of the third quality level may take more than a few minutes due to the large amount of data, for example, more than 5 MB, so that they are available only after some time. The monitoring image information Q3 in the third quality level can, for example, be archived or used for proof in a legal proceeding.

FIGS. 3 a, b, c illustrate the generation of the monitoring image information in the different quality levels Q1, Q2, Q3 in a schematic representation. In each case, the surveillance camera 7 is shown, which initially records the surveillance images in a raw data format R. In a first coding step, the image data can be coded with minimal or no loss of quality. In particular, the coding is carried out according to the standard mpeg4 and / or H.264. Based on the coded image data CD, monitoring image information Q1, Q2, Q3 are created. In this embodiment, the surveillance camera 7 forms a transcoder device.

It can be provided that the security reporting network 1 has a device for determining or estimating the available or usable data transmission rates between the surveillance camera 7 and the agent device 19 or client device 25 as user devices. For example, the device can estimate the available or usable data transmission rate based on a fill level of an output buffer of the surveillance camera 7. If the output buffer has a high level, it is assumed that the data transfer rate is low because the level can not be reduced. If, on the other hand, the level is low, this indicates a high data transmission rate, since the output buffer can be emptied faster than can be filled with new data. The security reporting network 1 and in particular the surveillance camera 7 are designed to select a quality level or to adjust the quality levels as a function of the available or usable data transmission rate. FIG. 5 shows a schematic representation of the security reporting network 1 and its processes during the processing of a monitoring event. FIG. 5 illustrates one possible embodiment of the security reporting network 1.

In the case of a monitoring event detected by one of the surveillance cameras 7, an event message E is sent from the associated local surveillance network 2 to the security control device 13, as already explained in connection with FIG. The event message E is processed by the event processing module 15, which sends an alarm message A to the control center 21, in particular to one of the agent devices 19, depending on the rules.

There, the alarm message A is processed by the monitoring personnel 22 in a particular predetermined or stored workflow. in the

As part of the workflow, it is possible that by means of user interaction and / or manually a verification request V by a request module 33 of the agent device 19 is triggered. This verification request V runs again via the security control device 13 and is transmitted from there together with an alarm message 28 to one of the client devices 25. In the illustrated embodiment, the first and third networks 5, 24 are formed as a LAN / WAN. The transmission of both the event message E, as well as the verification request V and the alarm message 28 via secure TCP connections.

For example, the alarm message 28 or the verification request V are designed as a so-called push notification. The push notifications are messages that are displayed or reported on the client device 25 directly and without user interaction. The alarm message 28 and / or the verification request V include continuing

Detailed information about the monitoring event. For example, the time of the event is transmitted to the surveillance camera 7, time of acceptance of the alarm message A in the control center 21, the triggering device, the monitoring object 3, a video image or a video sequence and / or an audio. A typical area of application for one of the verification requests V is when a person has been spotted in the surveillance object 3 but the surveillance staff 22 can not clearly determine whether it is an intruder or a known person. In this case, the supervisor 22 may receive further instructions from a user of the

Request client device 25 via the verification request V.

The verification request V provides a selection of multiple verification responses VA. The verification responses VA are optionally formed as part of the verification request V or on the

Client device 25 is provided. In order to process the verification request V and to select the verification responses VA, a corresponding software or app is installed on the client device 25, in particular as a mobile telephone. For example, 25 different choices are displayed on the client device by means of software buttons. Of the

User 29 of client device 25 selects a response from the choices, e.g. False alarm or alarm case, etc. The selected verification response VA is sent via the same signal path back to the security control device 13 and / or the control center 21, in particular the triggering agent device 19. The

Safety control device 13 or the agent device 19 evaluates the alarm message A according to the verification response of the user 29.

Optionally, it is possible for a confirmation dialog to be displayed on the client device 25, such as:

"They rated the alarm as uncritical.

No intervention is initiated. "" Ok / Back ", respectively

"They rated the alarm as critical.

Please confirm the immediate intervention. " "Ok / Back"

The verification response VA of the user 29 is sent to the agent device 19 and thus to the monitoring personnel 22.

Should the user 29 fail to respond within a defined time, the verification request V expires and the supervisor 22 must assess or reset the alarm in a conventional manner.

FIG. 6 shows the security reporting network 1 in a variant as a further exemplary embodiment. In the same way as the security reporting network 1 in FIGS. 1 and 5, the security reporting network 1 in FIG. 6 has the security control device 13, at least one local surveillance network 2, the control center 21 and at least one client device 25. In contrast to the preceding security reporting networks 1, the different components of the security reporting network 1 are data-technologically connected via a LAN / WAN as the first, the second and the third network 5, 18, 24. The LAN / WAN in Figure 6 or in the previous figures may also be designed as the public Internet.

FIG. 6 serves to illustrate the functionality of a mobile user event of the client device 25. In this embodiment, the client device 25 is designed as a mobile telephone and - at least in a serial intermediate section when connected to the LAN / WAN 5, 18, 24 - over the mobile network data technically connected to the security network 1.

The client device 25 comprises at least one sensor 30, which is designed as a connected or integrated camera, in particular a video camera. With the sensor 30, it is possible to record environmental data D in the form of monitoring image information or image data from the environment of the client device 25. Furthermore, the client device 25 comprises an input device 31, which allows commands to be input to the client device 25. In this embodiment, the input device 31 is formed as a touch-sensitive screen. In addition, the client device 25 has a control device 32, which implements that, in response to an input from a quick start command into the input device 31, environmental data D is recorded with the sensor 30 or a recording is continued. The environment data D together with a mobile event message MUE in the

Security reporting network 1 transmitted and continued in the safety control device 13 for further processing.

The functionality of the mobile user event allows the user 29 via the quick start command as a command combination both the recording of

Environment data D and the sending of the mobile event message MUE and the transmission of the environment data D to start. The recording of the environment data D, the sending of the mobile event message MUE and the start of the transmission of the environment data D are performed in a narrow time interval of less than 5 seconds or less than 2 seconds. In the

Entering the quick start command, the recording of the environment data is continued immediately and the event message immediately discontinued. The transmission of the environmental data D takes place immediately, in particular only with a time offset that is technically conditioned.

A possible application of the mobile user event functionality is the entrainment of the client device 25 by a mobile surveillance personnel (not shown). In the event that the mobile surveillance personnel e.g. discovered a suspicious situation as an event situation in a tour, it is possible that the client device 25 is activated by the quick start command and on the one hand, the mobile event message MUE and on the other hand, the environment data D feeds into the security network. These data are forwarded to the safety control device 13 and optionally to the control center 21. There the mobile event messages MUE are further processed in the same way as the event messages E. This extends the

Client device 25, the security network 1 to a mobile monitoring device, which fits seamlessly into the software architecture.

The quick start command can be designed, for example, as a wipe command on the input device 31 designed as a touch-sensitive screen. In particular, it is possible that after the receipt of an alarm message A based on the mobile event message MUE, a verification request V is sent to the same or another client device 25 in order to achieve on-site verification. For a description of the verification request, reference is made to FIG.

Claims

claims

1 . Security reporting network (1) with at least one local monitoring network (2) of one

Monitoring object (3), said at least one local

Monitoring network (2) at least one surveillance camera (7), wherein the surveillance camera (7) is formed, a

Event message (E) output, with a first network (5) and a central

Safety control device (13), wherein the local

Monitoring network (2) via the first network (5) with the central security control device (13) is connected by data technology, wherein the event message (E) via the first network (5) to the central

Safety control device (13) is transmitted, with a second network (18) and at least one

Agent devices (19) which are connected to the central security control device (13) via the second network (18), the event message (E) or an event message (Ε ') processed on the basis of the event message being sent to the agent device (A) as alarm message (A). 19), characterized in that the security reporting network (1) comprises a plurality of local

Monitoring networks (2), wherein the plurality of local monitoring networks (2) are assigned to different monitoring objects (3). Security reporting network (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the different monitoring objects (3) are spatially separated from each other and / or different monitoring object types and / or clients are assigned.

Security network (1) according to claim 1 or 2, characterized

in that the central security control device (13) has a management module (14) which displays accounts or accounts for different surveillance objects (3) and / or groups of

Managed monitoring objects (3).

Security reporting network (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the agent device (19) is formed, the alarm message (A) with user interaction by a

Monitoring staff (22) and / or evaluate them.

Security reporting network (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the agent device (19) is designed to provide further information about the alarm message (A) from the

To request a security camera (7), which has issued the associated event message (E) to evaluate the alarm message (A).

Security reporting network (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by at least one client device (25), wherein the client device (25) is designed as a mobile telephone, wherein the

Agent device (19) has a request module (33) which is configured to send an alarm message (28) and / or a verification request (V) to the client device (25) and a response of the

Client device (25) to receive the verification request (V).

Security reporting network (1) according to claim 6, characterized in that the sending of the alarm message (28) and / or the

Verification request (V) by user interaction through a

Monitoring personnel is triggered.

8. Security reporting network (1) according to any one of claims 6 or 7, characterized in that the client device (25) is designed, in response to the verification request, a verification response (VA) to the

Agent device (19) to send.

9. Security reporting network according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the monitoring camera (7) is designed to output monitoring image information to a monitoring event, wherein the monitoring image information one or more

Surveillance images comprise, the monitoring image information being transferable via the security control device (13) to the at least one agent device (19) and / or client device (25) - hereinafter collectively referred to as user device (19, 25), wherein the security reporting network (1) is implemented that

Monitoring image information about the monitoring event in the

User device (19, 25) are loaded, so that first image data for displaying the monitoring event is loaded in a first display mode, wherein the security reporting network (1) is formed that automatically and / or automatically further monitoring image information to the

Monitoring events are loaded, so that second image data for

Displays the monitoring event are loaded in a second display mode, wherein the second image data more information content and / or a larger amount of data than the first image data. 10. Security reporting network (1) according to claim 6, characterized in that the second image data has a larger number of monitoring images than the first image data.

1 1. Security reporting network (1) according to one of the preceding claims 9 or 10, characterized in that third image data for displaying the

Monitoring events in a third type of display include the original data from the surveillance event of the surveillance camera (7).

2. Security reporting network (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by the or a further client device (25), wherein the client device (25) is designed as a mobile phone, with at least one sensor (30) for receiving environmental data (D), at least one input device (31) for inputting commands and having at least one control device (32), the control device (32) being designed in response to an input of at least one start command as one of the commands surrounding data from an event situation with the sensor ( 30) and record this environmental data in the

Security network (1), wherein the start command is designed as a quick start command, wherein after entering the

Quick start command the environmental data (D) of the event situation

recorded and at the same time or with a short time offset less than 5s, preferably less than 3s and in particular less than 1 s in the

Security network are transmitted and a mobile

Event message (MUE) is issued.

3. A method for operating the security reporting network (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a plurality of local monitoring networks (2) by a common central

Safety control device (13) are cared for.