Patent ID: 8970349
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06F,G06K,G08B,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system to facilitate management of surveillance devices, that are distributed over a monitored region, through a geographic information (GI) portal, comprising: GI storage to store map data defining a geographic map of the monitored region, in which assets of interest are located and surveillance devices (SDs) are installed relative to the assets of interest; a GI manager unit (GIMU) to create and store surveillance device related (SDR) objects in the GI storage, each of the SDR objects uniquely associated with one of the SDs, the GIMU mapping the SDR objects to surveillance device specific content that includes SD documentation containing at least two of installation instructions, device specifications, warrantees, repair information and maintenance information of the corresponding SD, the surveillance device specific content further including at least two of the following: i) SD position information regarding a location of the corresponding surveillance device in the monitored region; ii) asset position information regarding a location for the corresponding asset with respect to which the SD is installed; or iii) SD data collected by the corresponding SD; a display to present a geographic map of the monitored region with device markers illustrated thereon, the device markers indicating positions of the surveillance devices relative to the geographic map, the device markers mapped to the SDR objects; and a user interface to permit a user to select from the surveillance devices by choosing the corresponding device markers, the display displaying to the user the SD documentation associated with the SDR object for the selected surveillance device.