Patent ID: 8350911

Claim:
Method for monitoring an environment through a plurality of sensors, wherein a control system receives information from one or more sensors of said plurality and uses said information in order to monitor said environment comprising a setup stage wherein an operator of said control system: creates a model of the environment by defining a plurality of cells corresponding to areas of said environment, creates cell/sensor relationships between said plurality of cells and said plurality of sensors, by defining for each sensor of said plurality at least one possible position and associating said at least one possible position with at least one cell of said plurality, and assigns to each possible position thus defined a monitoring judgment for the associated cell, and comprising an operational stage wherein, in order to carry out a surveillance function on an area to be monitored, said control system: finds the sensors which can be used for carrying out said surveillance function among said plurality, and controls at least one of said usable sensors by positioning it in a possible position selected on the basis of said cell/sensor relationships and of the monitoring judgments associated with the possible positions of said plurality of sensors.