Cooperative Video-Surveillance Framework in Internet of Things (IoT) Domain

In this chapter a cooperative heterogeneous system for an enhanced video-surveillance service will be presented. Edge and fog computing architectures make possible the realization of even more complex and distributed services. Moreover, the distribution of sensors and devices gives us the possibility to increase the knowledge of the monitored environments by exploiting Machine to Machine (M2M) communications protocols and their architectures. The rapid growth of IoT increased the number of the smart devices able to acquire, actuate and exchange information in a smart way. In this chapter, the main issues related to the design of an architecture for a smart cooperative video-surveillance system will be presented. The end-system shall exploit edge and fog computing for video-analytics services and communication protocols for cameras data exchange. Finally, all systems together realize a cooperative tracking among cameras that involves detection and tracking techniques to work jointly. At the end a detected anomaly can be followed among cameras generating alerting and notifying messages that will be sent to the designed human interaction system without explicit human interactions in the detection, tracking and system managing processes.