Patent ID: 7546624
Filing Date: 2009-06-09
Classification: G08B,H01Q,H04N

Abstract:
1. A video monitoring system comprising: a central monitoring station; one or more video capture units, each video capture unit wirelessly deployable about a region of interest and each video capture unit comprising: wherein the controller is further configured to choose a selected one of the plurality of antennas based at least in part on response times of the IP ping operations and to cause the antenna selector to connect the RF transceiver to the selected one of the plurality of antennas for subsequent wireless communication of the video data from the video capture unit to the central monitoring station; wherein wireless communication between the video capture unit and the central monitoring station comprises a frequency hopping spread spectrum modulation; and wherein the controller is configured with a list comprising a plurality of channel identifiers each channel identifier having an associated frequency hopping sequence and wherein the controller is further configured, while the RF transceiver is temporarily connected to each individual antenna, to conduct one or more wireless Internet Protocol (IP) ping operations between the video capture unit and the central monitoring station over the connected antenna using each of the individual channel identifiers in the list.