"Converged Surveillance" Opens the Door to Wisdom with the Internet of Things

Converged Surveillance Concept

Currently, the market already has various surveillance products and services, such as video surveillance, power monitoring, environmental monitoring, GPS vehicle dispatch monitoring, security surveillance, etc. These products utilize different sensing, acquisition, transmission, and control technologies, implementing surveillance means with different purposes and experiences on targets from different angles. Each of these single-purpose surveillance products requires building a complete end-to-end surveillance system from sensors to control management centers and remote clients. The lack of effective information fusion between systems makes it extremely difficult to realize rich value-added application services.

The converged surveillance system has an overall framework similar to that of the Internet of Things system, providing customers with end-to-end comprehensive solutions, specifically reflected in the following aspects:

1) Terminal Convergence Enables Thorough Perception

Traditional power and environment monitoring, intelligent access control, security surveillance, video surveillance, energy consumption management, intelligent equipment management, and other systems are built in isolation, which not only increases investment costs but also makes information exchange and intelligent analysis processing between systems difficult to achieve. Converged intelligent surveillance terminals organically combine sensing, acquisition, and transmission, adopting highly integrated and modular designs, comprehensively applying technologies such as wired/wireless sensing, intelligent processing, and wired/wireless transmission to truly achieve more thorough and comprehensive perception. This can effectively reduce various system construction costs, protect existing investments, enable smooth system evolution, support system deployment under complex conditions, and facilitate the expansion of various types of services.

2) Network Convergence Facilitates System Construction

With the increasingly mature construction of 3G networks, the bearer network has basically achieved full IP-based deployment. Meanwhile, wireless networks based on 3G/WIFI are accelerating the transformation of existing network access modes. Network bandwidth bottlenecks are gradually being resolved, the volume of transmitted information is increasing, and large-capacity services such as streaming media will become widespread. Reliable information transmission, diverse transmission means, and flexible network deployment are important supports for cross-regional, multi-level, large-scale networked integrated information management systems. The converged transmission networking system, which integrates communication technology, IT technology, network security technology, and other related technologies, is an indispensable neural network leading to the intelligent brain.