Development and a brief evaluation of a web-based surveillance system for cellular phones and other mobile computing clients

A surveillance system is designed and implemented with network cameras, an integrated Web/mail server, mobile computing devices as GUI, and remote control devices. It can obtain JPEG images from network cameras, process them, and accumulate them into its database. It can also receive requests from clients, analyze them, and perform services of remote monitoring and/or controlling. Image processing function is built in our system and useful for objectpsilas motion detection. Camera homing and emergency contact for cellular phone can be realized with our surveillance system and its image processing facility. Additionally, a remote controlling function is available to switch electric power of appliances on/off. And a brief evaluation of our system is also reported in this paper.