An apparatus is provided comprising: a determination unit configured to determine a possibility of an abnormality of a subject based on images captured by a surveillance camera with an audio output function; an instruction unit configured to instruct the surveillance camera to produce audio toward the subject in response to the determination of the possibility of an abnormality; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a reaction of the subject to the audio from the surveillance camera; and a detection unit configured to detect whether the subject has an abnormality or not based on the reaction of the subject to the audio.

The present document describes an electronic device with a structural midframe and associated methods. The architectural design of the electronic device (e.g., a security camera) is such that its components are assembled onto the midframe to form a subassembly and the housing is assembled after the subassembly. The midframe includes various features that enable multiple printed circuit boards, a camera subassembly, a front housing member, a heatsink, and a heat spreader to be assembled onto the midframe outside of the housing. The midframe can also include a hinge-bearing surface forming a portion of a ball joint for supporting rotational movement of the electronic device. Accordingly, the electronic device uses the midframe, rather than the housing, as a structural member.

Methods and systems for managing a premises are disclosed. An interface device and a premises system may be located at the premises. The interface device may receive a signal from a premises device of the premises system. An indication of the premises device may be output via a user interface. Configuration information may be associated with the premises device. The interface may monitor and control the premises device.

A method and system provides centralized redundant monitoring suitable for effectively recording and tracking video monitoring systems at a plurality of remote surveillance locations. The method and system are configured to track, monitor, capture, and record video originating from transportation vehicles using a novel technological configuration that minimizes overall and sub-system downtime relative to conventional technologies. The remote surveillance locations are capable of utilizing self-healing and recovery mechanisms and reporting status information to the centralized monitoring system. The centralized monitoring system can use information received from the remote surveillance locations to remotely monitor the status of the remote surveillance systems, to initiate remotely self-healing and recovery mechanisms, and request previously recorded surveillance data and live surveillance data in real time.

A system and method for handling data captured by a body worn camera are disclosed. The system may include a body worn camera, a docking station, and a recorder. The camera may include a local storage device. The docking station may include a data interface for connecting the local storage device to the docking station, and a first network interface for connecting the docking station to the recorder. The docking station may be physically separate from the recorder. The recorder may include a second network interface for connecting the recorder to the docking station, and a recorder storage device. The recorder may be arranged to retrieve the captured data from the camera and store it in the recorder storage device, and may include a third network interface for transfer of stored data to a data management system.

The present disclosure relates to the use of cryptographic techniques to facilitate local decision making at a gateway device (120) interfacing between an operator device (110) and edge devices (130), for example as can be found in Internet of Things infrastructures. Local decision making is facilitated in the context of end to end encryption of data between the edge device and operator device by enabling a function of the data to be computed at the gateway (120) without decrypting the data, for example using Functional Encryption (FE). The gateway determines an action based on the computed function, for example whether to transmit the data to the operator device (110). Examples of edge devices are video surveillance cameras or utility consumption meters but the disclosure is applicable to any edge device that produces data to be transmitted with end to end encryption. The disclosure is also not limited to IoT infrastructures.

A system for identifying a type of a user in a warehousing environment includes a plurality of Infra Red (IR) Light Emitting Diode (LED) devices provided to users in the warehousing environment, a plurality of cameras, and a user identification unit. The user identification unit includes a memory to store one or more instructions, and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, and configured to receive an image frame captured by the plurality of cameras, detect one or more IR LED devices in the image frame based on signals emitted by the one or more IR LED devices, detect an IR LED group of each detected IR LED device based on a geometric configuration, a blinking frequency, and a color of LEDs of corresponding IR LED device, and determine a type of user of each IR LED device based on detected LED group of corresponding IR LED device.

A security system is described for managing a premises. The security system comprises security system components and a first controller. A takeover component receives security data of the security system from the first controller. The security data is used to configure a second controller to communicate with the security system. The second controller communicates with the security system components and replaces the first controller in management of the security system.

A system and method for handling data captured by a body worn camera are disclosed. The system may include a body worn camera, a docking station, and a recorder. The camera may include a local storage device. The docking station may include a data interface for connecting the local storage device to the docking station, and a first network interface for connecting the docking station to the recorder. The docking station may be physically separate from the recorder. The recorder may include a second network interface for connecting the recorder to the docking station, and a recorder storage device. The recorder may be arranged to retrieve the captured data from the camera and store it in the recorder storage device, and may include a third network interface for transfer of stored data to a data management system.

Embodiments include a front-end device collaboration method, applied to a security and protection system to reduce a delay of a collaborative operation. The security and protection system includes a plurality of front-end devices, and the plurality of front-end devices include a first front-end device and a second front-end device. The method includes: the first front-end device determines that a preset collaboration trigger event exists; and the first front-end device sends a collaboration instruction to the second front-end device, where the collaboration instruction is used to instruct the second front-end device to perform an operation corresponding to the collaboration instruction.