Title :
MonitorMe: Online video monitoring for first responders using a smartphone
Author :
Rocha, Ana Paula ; Pereira, Oscar ; Ribeiro, Diogo ; Fernandes, Jose Maria ; Silva Cunha, Joao Paulo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Elec., Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Abstract :
Video can be a valuable source of information for monitoring first responders during operations in the field. In this paper we propose the MonitorMe, an application that supports online video monitoring of first responders. MonitorMe allows capturing video from a personal perspective, using a smartphone camera, and sending it to a remote observer. In order to reduce battery consumption and bandwidth usage, MonitorMe modulates the video frame rate according to the user activity/speed. The latter are estimated using the smartphone built-in accelerometer. The results have shown the potential of MonitorMe as a reliable non-GPS solution, which can be used for remote online monitoring of first responders in action.
Keywords :
image sensors; smart phones; video signal processing; MonitorMe; adaptative video frame rate; bandwidth usage reduction; battery consumption reduction; first responders; online video monitoring; smartphone built-in accelerometer; smartphone camera; user activity; user speed; video capture; Accelerometers; Biomedical monitoring; Cameras; Estimation; Legged locomotion; Monitoring; Sensors; Android smartphone; activity recognition; adaptative video frame rate; first responders monitoring; speed estimation;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Applications & Services (Healthcom), 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5800-2
DOI :
10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720774
