ITGR940003A1 - MOBILE AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM, WHICH ALLOWS THE ACQUISITION OF VIDEO IMAGES AND MONITORING DATA AND THEIR TRANSMISSION VIA RADIO, TO A - Google Patents

Abstract

The system, which has as its purpose the control and study of the environment and the territory and the safety of risk areas, has the fundamental characteristic of bringing together in a mobile container, (carried by a special trolley), and autonomous, (which has installed a photovoltaic-type electricity generation system with specific panels and batteries that make it operational for an unlimited time), the image acquisition units (through a series of cameras or similar equipped with various optics ) of monitoring data (with various hydro-meteorological sensors etc.); and a radio transmission system for video and data. The video images and data transmitted remotely (determined by the power and type of transmission) are received by a remote control and command center equipped with monitor and function keyboards, as well as any video and data processors.

Description

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Description of the industrial invention entitled:

"Mobile and autonomous system that allows the acquisition of video images and monitoring data and their transmission via radio to a remote vision and control center, for the study and control of the environment and the territory and the safety of areas risk to man, to technological and archaeological assets ".

2.) Summary

The system, which has as its purpose the Control and study of the environment and the territory and the safety of risk areas, has the fundamental characteristic of bringing together in a mobile container, (transported by a special trolley), and autonomous, (which has installed in it a photovoltaic-type electrical generation system with specific panels and relative batteries that make it operational for an unlimited time), image acquisition units (through a series of cameras or similar equipped with various optics ) of monitoring data (with various! hydrometeorological sensors, etc.), and a radio transmission system for video and data. The video images and data transmitted at a distance (determined by the power and type of transmission) are received by a remote control and command center equipped with a monitor and function keyboards, as well as any video or data processors. brought together the different technologies used {photovoltaic electricity generation; video-data radio transmission, camera unit e

monitoring data) in an easily transportable container with a specific trolley which is immediately operational (image and data transmission to the remote control center) that can also be installed by non-specialized personnel in a few minutes, for control and studies As already explained.

3) Description

The present industrial invention relates to a mobile and autonomous system that allows the acquisition of video images by means of a shooting unit (camera or similar) of various types depending on the use and monltorag data detected by specific sensors (air, water , weather, etc. and their transmission via radio at a variable distance depending on the type of frequency, power used.

The images and data are received by a remote viewing, command, data processing-and video recording center.

The system consists of a normally metallic structure 1. made with a load-bearing frame in galvanized iron or aluminum of thickness and parts in aluminum and polyurethane foam in sandwich execution with front doors in watertight execution 8. (this metal structure will be called shelter ); constructions of the shelter are also possible οη other materials.

fThe shelter is equipped with a system of positioning feet 2. extendable which can be of the type with hydraulic motorized or manual mechanical actuation according to the configuration and quality of the product; the positioning feet have reason to be because they are used for loading and unloading the shelter from the transport trolley 3.; in a state of operation the system can be linked to the Cart (table B) or released by leaving! only the shelter in the place of installation (table C) the positioning feet, if the trolley will remain bound to the shelter, will be used to stabilize and level the whole

m binding and release operations from the trolley have a time of about 5 minutes) and for an installation of the system_in places not reachable by the trolley towed by a vehicle (e.g. off-road 4X4) there is the possibility given the Constructive structure of elitransport the system itself table_F) release it from the trolley and place it in an inaccessible place thanks to the leveling arms that allow installation even in the presence of very steep slopes1.

On the upper side of the shelter there is the structure housing the photovoltaic panels which together with the energy storage batteries with relative charge regulator constitutes the autonomous electric power supply system for the continuous and indeterminate power supply from the shooting and data detection equipment. telecommunication of the systems itself.

The photovoltaic panels housing structure can be positioned and oriented according to the insolation side and the time of year; the photovoltaic panels are assembled with special plastic foil which guarantees indestructibility and lightness; the energy storage unit is made up of special maintenance-free sealed batteries and a control unit. Charging and electrical protection of the system equipped with alarm test functions for charging and discharging batteries, they are housed inside the shelter. On the upper side of the shelter, fixed on the piston or telescopic structure controlled by hydraulic motorization or manual arrangement, the take-off unit is positioned; it can also be positioned above a truss or other not firmly fixed to the ground and electrically connected to the shelter.

The camera unit which at rest / transport is stored inside the shelter can be supplied in different operational configurations which can also be combined such as:

- Pain camera for daytime shooting

- Infrared sensitive camera for daytime shooting with specific lighting.

Light intensifier camera for filming

- Thermal imaging camera with 3-5 or 8-14 micron vision spectrum

- Other and possible.

The cameras enclosed in special watertight housings are equipped with fixed or zoom lenses of varying power and focal length (depending on the configuration and use, motorized and controlled by the remote control unit.

The cameras can be installed on the shooting unit's cuntameli to system, consisting of a pan and tilt with horizontal and vertical robotization, which allows, controlled by the remote control unit, to orient the cameras in space allowing the choice of frames; one or more cameras can be installed on the pan and tilt, allowing the system to operate in different lighting or use conditions. The images will arrive via radio connection to the remote control unit and displayed on the monitor; all the optics robotic commands, 'pan / tilt. choice of the camera to be used and various accessories for shooting, can be activated in the same control unit] either manually by the operator or automatically by a programmable system, by sending remote controls with the same radio connection. Sitting down the system configuration, relative to the control or the study to be carried out, it is possible to install on the upper side of the shelter, also E. distance on a special mobile bracket, the various sensors for detecting environmental monitoring data 6. Some of them are placed on special easily removable brackets, since they must be in the detected position in order not to receive disturbances in detection.

The electrical signals of the various sensors arrive at a local laboratory on the shelter, and the data1 are transmitted via radio (the same as the video signals) to the computer at the central IEI Remote control.

The monitoring data sensors that at rest / transport are stored inside the shelter, can be supplied in different configurations that can be combined such as:

- Weather data (temperature, air pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction, precipitation).

Various temperatures (DARK different depths, snow different depths, water different depths).

Special data (leaf wetness, soil moisture, solar radiation, evaporation, geothermal temperature, snow height and CC).

- Hydrometric level data (height of waters in basins or rivers and reservoirs).

- Chemical data of atmospheric precipitation and river water.

Air chemical data

- Various other sensors

In relation to the detector units, infrared sensors can be installed for the automatic detection of forest fires; the electrical data will be sent to the control unit via radio link (signal lo) and processed by a specific computer, they will give us the coordinates and all the operational data relating to the territory and the shutdown procedures.

All the electronic and electrical equipment of the system are housed inside the shelter; the watertight and insulated structure of the shelter allows them an excellent shelter; as you can see in figure E, the following are positioned inside: energy storage batteries photovoltaic system charge regulator with electrical protections photovoltaic system; radio transmission and reception equipment for video and data signals; a service monitor for controlling images and data in transmission, a service keyboard for the camera unit and peripheral computers; monitoring data peripheral processor; controls and motorization hydraulic system positioning of shelter installation feet; storage rooms for weather data sensors and camera units; equipment assembly tool compartment.

The radio connection system between the shelter and the control unit is normally bidirectional with antennas 7. installed outside the shelter; the transmission range is related to the choice of frequency, emission power, type of antenna used, place of installation and the type of transmission normally includes a video-color channel plus 3. voice channels - data in the shelter-central sense Control and 3. voice-data channels in the central sense - shelter. The remote control unit consists of a console where the vision monitors, the video recording equipment, the system control panel, the unit (s) for monitoring data, the radio link equipment with the periphery are housed. .

A control unit can receive video-data signals or control peripheral systems1 allowing the control of areas.

The established dose system has the possibility of being successfully used in various fields of application such as:

- In Parks, in protected areas and elsewhere, for the control, research, study and census of fauna and also for the acquisition of images for educational and recreational purposes.

- In areas at risk for the prevention and sighting of forest fires.

- For surveillance by public or private police 'bodies'.

- In Archaeological areas for the dontrollo of visitors and the repression of the gentle day-night squatters

- Data-image band of natural phenomena * or events Caused by man (floods, landslides, avalanches, air, water and soil pollution and eo).

- Censuses, statistics, monitoring and vehicle traffic safety.

In airport areas for monitoring, safety and management, not even the start-up of birds on the runways.

In correspondence of hydraulic works for the Control the safety especially in the presence of floods.

- In industrial areas for control and safety.

- In ski areas', for dontrollo, safety and management of slopes, ski lifts and artificial snowmaking and dontrollo and avalanche forecasts.

- Other various applications.

For these study problems. Control, security data acquisition1, the state of the art was based on the construction of support stations for monitoring systems and data detection in fixed execution, normally consisting of pylons or bases1 fixed to the ground by means of concrete bases or fixed to existing buildings or infrastructures; power supplies could have existed; the electrical power supplies could be supplied by Enel or photovoltaic panels and the connections with the control centers could be made via radio or via † Coaxial or telephone twisted pair optical fiber; furthermore, the previous constructions could not be installed in particularly difficult-to-reach places and, if necessary, the construction and management costs were high. The novelty of the invention lies in the fact that the union unites; of autonomous electric power supply of the photovoltaic type, of data capture and detection, of radio transmission to the remote control unit, in a mobile and helicopter-type housing-transport container which is intact [all the units, from the possibility of having a system that can be positioned and made operational in a very short time (a few minutes), and allows the control of areas "subject to study or at risk for the environment, for man or for technological or archaeological assets .

It is interesting to note that the system has the maximum moblll-

It is also possible to carry out it in different areas with the same machine in the course of a day, while with the physical systems used here it required the use of different fixed equipment with a considerable cost compared to the invention.

The interchangeability of the camera units and its monitoring sensors considerably increase the novelty of the invention itself.

The construction of the system must be carried out by an Industry or Company that has specific experience in the field of electronics with specifications on telecommunications, cameras and optics, photovoltaic electricity generation and in the field of environmental monitoring. It is believed that there will be a good development of the invention in relation to the interest that the environmental control and monitoring systems and for the number of goods have in recent years and will have in the future, also considering the economies of realization of a territorial study or control carried out with the use of the invention and the maximum operational flexibility, given by the mobility of the system and by the interchangeability of the units of acquisition and retrieval of monitoring data.

Claims (1)

4) Claims; 1) The system is characterized by the mechanical / electrical union of: supporting structure for housing / containment (shelter) and easily transportable; photovoltaic type electrical power supply unit equipped with accumulation and regulation batteries of ccribe, which gives energy in over time; monitoring and data detection unit consisting of one or more cameras or sites and sensors, of different types and characteristics, with related accessories that allow the acquisition of images1 video and monitoring data; radio rio transmissive unit of video-data signals, which allows the connection with a return of vision, control and remote processing. All of this for the study and control of the environment and the territory and the safety of areas subject to human resources, for technological and archaeological assets. 2) The system according to claim 1. is characterized by the fact that the electric power supply unit of the photovoltaic type and the radio transmission unit for video data signals, as well as all the electronic control / service devices to the capture unit are housed in the 'resume unit are housed inside and abroad' and in an integral way to the load-bearing structure (shelter made to be easily transported by Trolley on wheels or the like, and possibly unloaded for its positelonisation in use, without the use of cranes or pulls upwards by means of a hydraulic / mechanical lifting system which is an integral part of the supporting structure itself; this system also has the possibility of being eletrasportat thanks to special barycentric hooks. 3) The system according to claim 1 is characterized by the fact that the camera unit can be installed in a manner integral with the shelter -bramiate telescopic structure or installed for particular uses of the system in the vicinity of the shelter itself, on the trellis, tripod or other not solidly and definitively fixed to the ground and electrically connected to the shelter by means of a specific cable. 4) The system according to claim 1.) is characterized by the fact that it functions and is operative (after its positioning) without further intervention of the man on the spot; the man intervenes on the functions of the system remotely by means of a radio link from a control center. 5) The system according to claims 1.) is characterized by the fact that it has the possibility, depending on its use, of connecting to it a monitoring data detection unit consisting of various electrical sensors and not electrically connected to a control unit , which can store the data through its own memory, or through the radio link, send the acquired data to the remote viewing and control unit for subsequent processing.