Design and implementation of embedded network video monitoring terminal

Diggitalization of network video monitoring system, which has advantages of unlimited distance control, flexible extension and so on, is becoming a new standard of security system. Due to limitations of network bandwidth, video signals collected must be compressed to achieve real-time video transmission on the network. Therefore, how to maintain the high quality of the compressed signal, and meanwhile minimize the amount of data becomes a key technical problem To achieve this goal, an embedded network video monitoring terminal was designed and implemented by us This terminal consists of dedicated MPEG-4 compression ASIC, 32-bit embedded processor, 8-bit micro controller, 4-channel video capturing and decoding chips etc. Its corresponding software has been developed Users can not only watch the real-time monitoring images directly with the built-in embedded web server through the network,but also login central server, watch the monitoring images and control the network video terminal through dedicated software. Test results show that our terminal can better utilize TCP/IP network bandwidth Video can play without latency and fitter, as a result of real-time transmission and reception of digital video signal.