SmartArgos: Improving mobile surveillance systems with software defined networks

Mobile surveillance systems like vehicle mounted cameras (i.e. police dash cams) and body cameras play an important role in securing physical spaces. However, these systems can generate too much data that hampers timely analysis. Furthermore, existing infrastructure wireless networks may not have sufficient bandwidth to support real time streaming of videos to backend servers. This paper presents the design of SmartArgos, a control framework to regulate mobile surveillance systems. SmartArgos uses software defined networks and computer vision algorithms to manage multiple mobile surveillance streams. Our experiments indicate that SmartArgos makes video streaming efficient and saves bandwidth compared to traditional video uploading from multiple clients.