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

fYear

2013

fDate

9-12 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

731

Lastpage

733

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Health Networking, Applications & Services (Healthcom), 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5800-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720774

Filename

6720774