Apparatus for sharing private video streams with first responders and method of operation
A video surveillance service shares image streams with first responder agencies in the event of emergency. Nominated agencies establish access credentials at the surveillance service data center. A camera will be shared by a customer administrator's selection of permissions on each camera via privileged web-browser or mobile device. Permissions enable selection by static meta data such as type, audio, location, motion, recognition, PTZR, spectrum, and epoch. Video streams of present and past epochs are controlled by ranges of time. A responding agency will receive an electronic notification from the administrator to present their access credential and a handle for each shared camera of interest. A notification may be customized for each responding agency and each event by dynamically generating a link to a secure webserver which records geo-location or network identifiers for validation or sanity checking. Video servers may include virtual machines dedicated to each responding agency but controlled by a customer administrator.
1. An apparatus for sharing private video streams, the apparatus comprising:
a permissions controller for a plurality of cameras (controller); the controller remotely coupled to
a facility administrator console;
a video stream server (video server); the controller further coupled to the video stream server,
a responding agency account manager circuit (manager), the manager remotely coupled to at least one browser, and further coupled to the video stream server;
a video stream cache and store;
a responding agency authentication circuit and credential store;
a shared camera permissions circuit to enable streaming metadata and images over a range of time for each shared camera;
a circuit to request a geo-identifier from an authenticated responding agency video display;
a store of blacklist and whitelist geo-identifiers (geo-store);
a circuit to initiate a consequence after comparing the geo-store with a geo-identifier received from a mobile wireless video display;
a plurality of virtual machine images with dedicated application programming interface instructions encoded in a computer-readable non-transitory store (vmstore);
a plurality of processor cores (cores) coupled to said vmstore;
a shared memory store;
a video streaming processor coupled by interprocess communication (IPC) to said cores through the shared memory store;
a camera control circuit to record parameters for each camera and permissions for video streams requested by obfuscated camera handles (obhandles);
a responding agency authentication credential store; and,
an agency notification circuit to generate and transmit virtual links to virtual machines and window layouts with obhandles.