AVSS: Airborne Video Surveillance System

Abstract

Most surveillance systems only contain CCTVs. CCTVs, however, provide only limited maneuverability against dynamic targets and are inefficient for short term surveillance. Such limitations do not raise much concern in some cases, but for the scenario in which traditional surveillance systems do not suffice, adopting a fleet of UAVs can help overcoming the limitations. In this paper, we present a surveillance system implemented with a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A surveillance system implemented with a fleet of UAVs is easy to deploy and maintain. A UAV fleet requires little time to deploy and set up, and removing the surveillance is also virtually instant. The system we propose deploys UAVs to the target area for installation and perform surveillance operations. The camera mounted UAVs act as surveillance probes, the server provides overall control of the surveillance system, and the fleet platform provides fleet-wise control of the UAVs. In the proposed system, the UAVs establish a network and enable multi-hop communication, which allows the system to widen its coverage area. The operator of the system can control the fleet of UAVs via the fleet platform and receive surveillance information gathered by the UAVs. The proposed system is described in detail along with the algorithm for effective placement of the UAVs. The prototype of the system is presented, and the experiment carried out shows that the system can successfully perform surveillance over an area set by the system.

SCRAS Server-Based Crosslayer Rate-Adaptive Video Streaming over 4G-LTE for UAV-Based Surveillance Applications

“…It is a useful strategy to replace fixed cameras with UAVs for surveillance purposes. In the recent past, several surveillance frameworks were proposed, e.g., [16][17][18][19]. They offer basic tuning for variation in the target region during the flying mode.…”

Energy-Efficient Topology Control for UAV Networks

“…The biggest advantage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is three-dimensional mobility with a high degree of freedom, and the relatively low cost of the devices, which leads to the possibility of large-scale operation [1]. For instance, [2] expands the network infrastructure by using UAVs as an Access Point (AP) with mobility, and [3] deploys a scalable surveillance network with three-dimensional vision of UAVs. To operate these UAV applications well, there are numerous requirements regarding the networking.…”

“…As our topology control scheme acts as an intermediate layer between the data link layer and the network layer, it can be broadly used in a wireless network domain. In the case of the UAV network, our system can contribute to performance improvements in multi-UAV surveillance [3], where extending the mission time and guaranteeing the quality of the video transmission service are essential. In addition, our topology control can be deployed in the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) scenario since the WSN nodes commonly have intensive power constraints.…”

Ground Control System Based Routing for Reliable and Efficient Multi-Drone Control System

“…Development of flight controllers, batteries, network modules, embedded computers, and multi-copter frame manufacturing has been very rapid [1]. Consequently, drones have been utilized in many fields, evolving from applications requiring human monitoring into unattended autonomous applications, such as drone assisted communications [2], disaster monitoring [3], remote sensing [4], surveillance [5], etc. In this context, a drone fleet comprising multiple drones has many advantages compared to a single drone, including cooperation, efficiency, and fault tolerance.…”