Patent ID: 7657914

Claim:
An object monitoring system, including: a slave system having slave processors and a plurality of cameras for monitoring one or more objects, each camera having a field of view, images of said cameras being processed by respective ones of said slave processors, and said slave processors including sensors assigned to respective cameras and at least parts of the fields of view of said cameras to analyze said at least parts, detect predetermined characteristics of said at least parts and generate a trigger in response thereto; a master system having a master processor including agents assigned to at least one of said objects and having one or more of said sensors allocated thereto, each of said agents being allocated at least two sensors that are from different processors, and said agents each generating an event on receiving said trigger from the one or more allocated sensors; and an event system receives events from said agents and determines whether the received events represent an alarm condition, wherein said event system identifies the occurrence of an alarm condition only when said master system receives a trigger from a specified combination of said sensors.