IBM smart surveillance system (S3): a open and extensible framework for event based surveillance

Chiao-Fe Shu, Arun Hampapur, M. Lu, Lisa M. Brown, Jonathan H. Connell, A. Senior, Yingli Tian

2006 · 92 citations · 4 references

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TL;DR

Smart surveillance technology is increasingly vital in security infrastructures, making system architecture critically important. The paper seeks to motivate an open‑standards based architecture for surveillance. The authors develop an open‑standards architecture for airport surveillance by modeling threats, deriving security requirements, and implementing the design in the IBM S3 system. Pilot deployment in Hawthorne, NY demonstrates the system’s feasibility.

Abstract

As smart surveillance technology becomes a critical component in security infrastructures, the system architecture assumes a critical importance. This paper considers the example of smart surveillance in an airport environment. We start with a threat model for airports and use this to derive the security requirements. These requirements are used to motivate an open-standards based architecture for surveillance. We discuss the critical aspects of this architecture and its implementation in the IBM S3 smart surveillance system. Demo results from a pilot deployment in Hawthorne, NY are presented.

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