KR200434039Y1 - Centralized Surveillance System - Google Patents

Abstract

A centralized monitoring system is disclosed that can systematically and efficiently manage a remotely installed surveillance system and quickly and easily contact a manager in case of an emergency. A plurality of monitoring devices are installed in the monitoring area to perform monitoring, and a plurality of DVR servers are connected to the plurality of monitoring devices, respectively, to store the monitoring data provided from the plurality of monitoring devices and to generate an event when an event occurs based on the monitoring data. To provide. The central monitoring server receives the event occurrence facts from the plurality of DVR servers, displays the provided event occurrence facts, and displays real-time monitoring data provided from the selected monitoring apparatus among the plurality of monitoring apparatuses. Therefore, it is possible to systematically monitor the DVR servers distributed remotely from one place and to quickly cope with and efficiently replace events and emergencies. In addition, the number of administrators managing a plurality of DVR servers can be reduced, thereby reducing management costs.

Central Surveillance, Integrated Control, DVR, Server, Administrator

Description

Centralized Surveillance System

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a centralized monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the centralized monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an event processing process of the central monitoring server illustrated in FIG. 1.

4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation process of the DVR server shown in FIG. 1.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a real-time video display process in the centralized monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a processing process when an emergency occurs in a centralized monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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10, 11, 12: surveillance camera 20, 21, 22: DVR server

30 network 40 central monitoring server

50: first display device 51: second display device

The present invention relates to a monitoring system, and more particularly to a centralized monitoring system that can systematically manage a plurality of monitoring systems installed in a remote location.

A general surveillance system is a digital video recorder (DVR) which is connected by wire to a plurality of surveillance cameras and the plurality of surveillance cameras installed for each location to be monitored, converts the images captured by the plurality of surveillance cameras into digital, and compresses and records them. : Digital Video Recorder, hereinafter abbreviated as "DVR" Server.

The DVR server analyzes the images provided from the plurality of surveillance cameras through various pre-installed control programs and delivers the event occurrence contents to the administrator of the DVR server through a designated method when a predetermined event occurs. Have managers take action for emergencies.

In addition, in the conventional surveillance system, even when centrally managing a DVR server distributed in a remote location, the DVR is connected to a remote DVR server by using a client program in a central management server, and the DVR is connected only through video monitoring. Check the event occurrence status of the server. When an event occurs in a predetermined DVR server, the contact of the administrator in charge of the DVR server where the event occurs is checked through a separate means and indirectly notified of the event occurrence.

In the conventional surveillance system as described above, since a manager is arranged for each DVR server to manage a plurality of DVR servers distributed in remote locations, a large number of personnel are required, and there is a problem in managing personnel, and each DVR server has a predetermined area. Since the bay is monitored and managed, there is a problem that the monitoring of the boundary areas located between the areas of monitoring may be relatively neglected.

In addition, the conventional surveillance system has a problem that it is difficult to systematically manage a plurality of DVR servers and systematically manage the entire surveillance area.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a centralized monitoring system that can systematically and efficiently manage a monitoring system installed at a remote location, and can quickly and easily contact a manager in case of an emergency.

Centralized monitoring system according to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object of the present invention is a plurality of monitoring devices that are installed in each monitoring area to perform the monitoring, and the plurality of monitoring devices respectively connected to the plurality of A plurality of DVR servers storing the surveillance data provided from the surveillance apparatus of the apparatus and providing the event occurrence facts upon occurrence of the event based on the surveillance data, and receiving the event occurrence facts from the plurality of DVR servers and displaying the provided event occurrence facts; And a central monitoring server that displays real-time monitoring data provided from a selected monitoring device among the plurality of monitoring devices. The centralized monitoring system may include a first display device connected to the central monitoring server and displaying the event occurrence, and a second display device connected to the central monitoring server and displaying monitoring data provided from the selected monitoring device. It may further include. The central monitoring server may store and display map data indicating a location where the plurality of monitoring devices are installed. The central monitoring server divides the display area of the first display device, and divides the plurality of DVR server lists, the plurality of monitoring device lists connected to each DVR server, and the map data into the divided display areas for each of the DVR servers. I can display it. The central monitoring server may divide the display area of the second display device into a predetermined number and display real-time monitoring data provided from the selected monitoring device in each divided area. When an emergency situation occurs, the central monitoring server may automatically search the contact information of the administrator stored in order to notify the administrator of the region where the emergency situation occurred, and notify the fact that the emergency situation occurred. The plurality of surveillance apparatuses may include a plurality of cameras and surveillance sensors for capturing an image of a surveillance region. The surveillance data may be surveillance images captured by the plurality of cameras.

The present invention may be variously modified and have various embodiments, and specific embodiments will be illustrated in the drawings and described in detail.

However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to specific embodiments, it should be understood to include all changes, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, it will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, the same reference numerals are used for the same components in the drawings, and duplicate descriptions of the same components are omitted.

Terms such as first and second may be used to describe various components, but the components should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, without departing from the scope of the present invention, the first component may be referred to as the second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as the first component. The term and / or includes a combination of a plurality of related items or any item of a plurality of related items.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a centralized monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to Figure 1, the centralized monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention is a plurality of monitoring devices (10, 11, 12), a plurality of DVR server (20, 21, 22), network 30, central monitoring The server 40 includes a first display device 50 and a second display device 51.

The plurality of monitoring devices 10, 11, 12 are provided at remote monitoring sites, respectively. Surveillance devices may be cameras, microphones and surveillance sensors. In an embodiment of the present invention, it is assumed that a camera is used as the plurality of monitoring devices.

The plurality of monitoring apparatuses 10, 11, and 12 transmit the captured images to the corresponding DVR servers 20, 21, and 22, respectively. Here, the DVR server means a DVR server to which the monitoring device is connected via wired or wireless.

Each of the plurality of DVR servers 20, 21, and 22 receives images captured from the plurality of monitoring devices 10, 11, and 12, and converts and compresses them into digital image data according to a preset method to store the storage device (e.g., For example, it stores in a hard disk drive (not shown), and transmits the stored surveillance video data to the central surveillance server 40 when the central surveillance server 40 requests a transmission.

In addition, each of the plurality of DVR servers 20, 21, and 22 may record images captured from the plurality of monitoring devices 10, 11, and 12 in real time to the central monitoring server 40 at the request of the central monitoring server 40. send.

Each of the plurality of DVR servers 20, 21, 22 stores an Emap image, which is map data indicating a location where the plurality of connected monitoring devices 10, 11, 12 are installed and the state of each monitoring device, and the central monitoring server ( If there is a request for transmission of 40), the Emap image is transmitted to the central monitoring server 40 through the network 30.

In addition, each of the plurality of DVR servers 20, 21, 22 may request a request or event occurrence from the central monitoring server 40 through the network 30 when a request from the central monitoring server 40 or a predetermined event occurs. To be sent).

For example, each of the plurality of DVR servers 20, 21, 22 may monitor the central monitoring server 40 through a designated communication method such as a captured image or text message when an event such as an alarm and / or motion occurs. Inform the fact that the event occurred.

The network 30 connects the plurality of DVR servers 20, 21, 22 and the central monitoring server 40 installed at remote locations. The network 30 may be a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), a Public Switched Data Network (PSDN), the Internet, or the like.

The central monitoring server 40 is connected to the plurality of DVR servers 20, 21, 22 through the network 30, and monitors the monitoring situation based on the monitoring data transmitted from the plurality of DVR servers 20, 21, 22. It is displayed on the first display device 50 and the second display device 51.

The central monitoring server 40 stores a list of the plurality of DVR servers 20, 21, 22 and the monitoring devices 10, 11, 12 connected to each DVR server. In addition, the central monitoring server 40 divides the display area of the first display device 50 into a predetermined number (for example, three areas) to display a list of DVR servers and a list of monitoring devices in the divided first display area. Display. In addition, the event list is displayed on the divided second display area of the first display device 50, and the Emap image is displayed on the divided third display area.

The central monitoring server 40 divides the second display device 51 into a predetermined number of display areas, and displays real-time monitoring images transmitted from the plurality of DVR servers 20, 21, and 22 in each of the divided display areas. Display.

If a predetermined DVR server is selected from the list of DVR servers displayed on the first display device 50, the central monitoring server 40 requests the current event situation from the selected DVR server, and monitors the event situation transmitted in real time from the DVR server. And classify and store the DVR server in the event list of the first display device 50 in the order of the received time.

Selection of the DVR server may be arbitrarily selected by the administrator of the central monitoring server 40, or may be sequentially selected according to the order displayed in the list of the DVR server.

The central monitoring server 40 displays a list of monitoring devices connected to the selected DVR server when the administrator of the central monitoring server 40 selects a predetermined DVR server from the list of DVR servers displayed on the first display device 50, and displays the displayed monitoring. When the administrator selects a predetermined monitoring device from the list of devices, the monitoring image captured by the selected monitoring device is displayed in real time through the second display device 51.

In addition, when a predetermined event item is selected from the event list displayed on the first display device 50, the central monitoring server 40 requests a monitoring image from the DVR server corresponding to the selected event item and transmits the monitoring image from the DVR server. Is displayed.

In addition, the central monitoring server 40 is provided with an emergency contact means for the manager of each DVR server to immediately contact the manager when an emergency occurs.

For example, when the administrator of the central monitoring server 40 selects a predetermined event item from the event list and checks the surveillance video transmitted from the DVR server corresponding to the selected event item, it is determined that an action is necessary. By using a shortcut menu or a shortcut key provided in (40), the administrator of the DVR server may be notified of the occurrence of an event through a method such as a text message or an email.

The first display device 50 and the second display device 51 are connected to the central monitoring server 40 and display monitoring data such as surveillance images and text provided from the central monitoring server, respectively.

2 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the centralized monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, the central monitoring server 40 first performs a security check of the monitoring system when the monitoring system is executed (step 101), and determines whether the security is normal (step 103).

As a result of the security check, if the security is determined to be normal, the central monitoring server 40 retrieves the stored DVR server list, the event list, and the Emap list (step 105), and displays the detected DVR server list, the event list, and the Emap list on the first display device. Each divided area of 50 is displayed (step 107).

Then, the central monitoring server 40 is connected to each DVR server through the network 30 (step 109), receives the list of monitoring devices, Emap image and event data of the connected DVR server, and stores the received data Each of the first and second displays is divided in the display area (step 111).

Thereafter, the central monitoring server 40 requests the surveillance video from the DVR server corresponding to the monitoring device selected by the administrator of the central monitoring server 40 and divides the real-time monitoring image transmitted from the DVR server into the divided display of the second display device. The area is marked (step 113).

Thereafter, it is determined whether an event corresponding to the termination of the surveillance system has occurred (step 115). If it is determined that an event corresponding to the termination of the surveillance system has occurred, the surveillance system is terminated, and an event corresponding to the termination of the surveillance system does not occur. If not, the process returns to step 109 and subsequent steps are performed sequentially.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an event processing process of the central monitoring server illustrated in FIG. 1, when a manager of the central monitoring server 40 executes an event search, a process of searching for and displaying a stored event.

Referring to FIG. 3, the central monitoring server 40 first determines whether a command for event list retrieval has been executed (step 201), and if it is determined that the command for event list retrieval has been executed, the stored event data is read. (Step 203), the search condition set by the administrator of the central monitoring server 40 and / or newly generated daily data and / or event data corresponding to the preset search condition are searched (step 205).

Then, the event data meeting the above condition is displayed through the first display apparatus 50.

4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation process of the DVR server shown in FIG. 1.

Referring to FIG. 4, first, each of the plurality of DVR servers 20, 21, 22 performs a security check when the system is initialized (step 301), and determines whether the security is normal (step 303).

As a result of the security check, if the security is determined to be normal, the DVR server 20, 21, 22 receives the surveillance image and the surveillance data from the plurality of surveillance apparatuses 10, 11, 12 (step 305), and receives the received surveillance image. And store and display monitoring data (step 307).

The DVR server 20, 21, 22 compares the received surveillance image and the surveillance data with a preset event occurrence condition to determine whether an event has occurred (step 309).

If it is determined that the event has occurred, the DVR server 20, 21, 22 determines whether the connection with the central monitoring server 40 is established (step 311), and if it is determined that the connection is established, The event generation signal is transmitted to the central monitoring server 40 (step 313).

5 is a flowchart illustrating in detail a real-time image display process in the centralized monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the central monitoring server 40 displays the list of DVR servers on the first display device 50 (step 401), and monitors the DVR server according to a selection or a preset method of the administrator of the central monitoring server 40. The connection is made separately (step 403). The central monitoring server 40 determines whether the DVR server is connected (step 405), and if it is determined that the DVR server is connected to the DVR server, the central monitoring server 40 displays the monitoring device and the event list connected to the connected DVR server. (Step 407).

Thereafter, when a predetermined monitoring apparatus is selected and executed by the central monitoring server 40 administrator (step 409), the central monitoring server 40 selects a predetermined divided region from the divided display regions of the second display apparatus 51. In step 411, if it is determined that a predetermined partition is selected, a surveillance image transmitted from the selected and executed monitoring apparatus is displayed in the selected predetermined partition (step 413).

6 is a flowchart illustrating a processing process when an emergency occurs in a centralized monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, the monitoring apparatuses 10, 11, and 12, such as a camera and a sensor, photograph and monitor the installed monitoring place (step 501), and transmit the photographing and monitoring data to the DVR server 20, 21, 22. do. The DVR server 20, 21, 22 stores the received monitoring data (step 503), and determines whether the received monitoring data coincides with a preset emergency condition (step 505). If it is determined that the DVR server 20, 21, 22 transmits the emergency signal and the captured data to the central monitoring server (40).

The central monitoring server 40 receives the emergency signal and the shooting data from the DVR servers 20, 21, and 22, and displays the received emergency signal and the shooting data as text and / or video.

The administrator of the central monitoring server 40 checks the displayed text and / or the captured image and notifies the administrator of the DVR server in which the emergency occurs through a predetermined means. For example, the central monitoring server 40 prepares and stores a message to be notified to the site manager and a contact point of the site manager according to the type of emergency situation, and automatically retrieves the contact number of the administrator of the region where the emergency situation occurred when an emergency situation occurs. After that, the administrator can be notified of an emergency by using a text message or an email.

According to the centralized monitoring system as described above, the central monitoring server displays a plurality of DVR server lists, event lists and Emaps through the first display device, and displays the monitoring device list of the DVR server selected from the displayed DVR server list. . The surveillance image photographed from the selected surveillance apparatus from the displayed surveillance apparatus list is displayed on a predetermined region of the divided display regions of the second display apparatus.

Therefore, it is possible to systematically monitor the DVR server distributed remotely in one place and to quickly respond and efficiently replace in case of an event and / or emergency. In addition, the number of administrators managing a plurality of DVR servers can be reduced, thereby reducing management costs.

Although described with reference to the embodiments above, those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and changes can be made to the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as set forth in the claims below. Could be.

Claims (8)

A plurality of monitoring devices installed in the monitoring area to perform monitoring; A plurality of DVR servers each connected to the plurality of monitoring devices, storing monitoring data provided from the plurality of monitoring devices and providing an event occurrence fact when an event occurs based on the monitoring data; And A centralized monitoring system including a central monitoring server receiving the event occurrence facts from the plurality of DVR servers, displaying the provided event occurrence facts, and displaying real-time monitoring data provided from a selected one of the plurality of monitoring apparatuses; . The system of claim 1, wherein the centralized monitoring system  A first display device connected to the central monitoring server and displaying the fact that the event has occurred; And And a second display device connected to the central monitoring server and displaying the monitoring data provided from the selected monitoring device. The centralized monitoring system according to claim 2, wherein the central monitoring server stores and displays map data indicating a location where the plurality of monitoring devices are installed. The display apparatus of claim 3, wherein the central monitoring server divides a display area of the first display device, and each of the plurality of DVR server lists, the list of the plurality of monitoring devices connected to each DVR server, and the map in each divided display area. Centralized monitoring system characterized in that to display the data for each DVR server. The centralized monitoring system of claim 4, wherein the central monitoring server divides the display area of the second display device into a predetermined number and displays real-time monitoring data provided from the selected monitoring device in each divided area. system. The method of claim 1, wherein the central monitoring server automatically retrieves the contact information of the stored administrator to notify the occurrence of the emergency situation to notify the administrator of the region where the emergency occurred when the emergency occurs. Centralized monitoring system, characterized in that. The centralized monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of monitoring devices include a plurality of cameras and monitoring sensors for capturing an image of a surveillance area. The centralized monitoring system according to claim 7, wherein the surveillance data is surveillance images captured by the plurality of cameras.

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