Patent ID: 7292723

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a plurality of image capture devices, each of which is configured to capture images and to transmit captured images; and a node in communication with the image capture devices, in which the node is configured to: receive the captured images; store the captured images; associate each captured image with a respective site location based on its respective image capture device; select at least one neuron; transmit a first one of the captured images to the at least one neuron; receive a result from the at least one neuron; determine whether the result indicates that a human is present in the first captured image; select at least one additional neuron based on whether the result indicates that a human is present in the first captured image; transmit the first captured image to the at least one additional neuron; receive at least one additional result from the at least one additional neuron; determine whether the at least one additional result indicates that a human is present in the first captured image; and determine an alarm condition based on the at least one additional result.