Patent ID: 8370421

Claim:
A method for coordinating a plurality of sensors used for surveillance of an environment, wherein a plurality of networked computers control said sensors for a purpose of providing one or more services requested through a network, wherein, in order to coordinate with one another, said computers carry out the following steps: exchanging information regarding characteristics of each of said plurality of networked computers and the one or more services provided by each of said plurality of networked computers by controlling said plurality of sensors over the network, so that every computer of said plurality of networked computers knows the characteristics of and the one or more services provided by the other computers of said plurality of networked computers, reviewing a service requested through the network, defining, based on the service requested through the network, a team of computers of said plurality of networked computers which will provide the service requested through the network, and executing, by said team of computers, a configuration algorithm based on the service requested through the network to define a set of tasks, such that: determining, by said team of computers, the tasks to be carried out by each computer of said team of computers as a function of the characteristics of the computers of said team providing the service requested through the network, so that all the computers of said team providing the service requested through the network detect a same optimal team configuration and therefore the tasks to be carried out by each computer of said team, and controlling said sensors based on the tasks defined by said configuration algorithm.