Disaster Surveillance Video Transmission System by Wireless Ballooned Network

Author

Asahizawa, Daisuke ; Sato, Yosuke ; Sato, Goshi ; Shibata, Yoshitaka

Author_Institution

Iwate Prefectural Univ., Iwate, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 May 2009

Firstpage

884

Lastpage

889

Abstract

In this paper, a disaster surveillance video transmission system by wireless ballooned network is proposed to promptly observe and grasp the information around the disaster area form sky on the occurrence of disaster. A combination of both omni-directional camera and pan-tile-zoomed control camera so called PTZ camera is used to widely capture images with 360 degree direction by omni-directional camera while the specified point in the omni-directional camera image is panned, tilted and zoomed using PTZ camera. Using ballooned surveillance video system, video image in the large area in the disaster place where human being cannot approach is covered from sky. A prototype system is constructed to evaluate its function and performance through omni-directional video surveillance system. As we result, we verified the usefulness of the proposed surveillance video transmission system.

Keywords

disasters; radio networks; telecommunication network topology; video cameras; video communication; video surveillance; disaster area; disaster surveillance video transmission system; mesh network; natural disasters; omni-directional camera image; pan-tile-zoomed control camera; wireless ballooned network; Cameras; IP networks; Local area networks; Mesh networks; Prototypes; Safety; Surveillance; Videoconference; Wireless LAN; Wireless mesh networks; ballooned network; surveillance system; wireless;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2009. WAINA '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bradford

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3999-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3639-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAINA.2009.179

Filename

5136762