A Project Example: Video Surveillance System

A Distributed Video Surveillance System Based on Streaming IP Video

A Project Example

A video surveillance system was developed to protect extensive lengths (oil- and gas-pipelines, industrial areas, etc.) The system provides control using video and thermal cameras which can also be in sleeping mode and automatically ‘wake up’ on detection of moving objects.

Industry: Safety and security

Customer: A Russian innovation company that develops hardware and software for use in the field of security and safety.

Application areas: Securing extended and local areas, oil and gas pipelines, approaches and perimeters of various facilities.

Project scope:

Design and development of a video server that receives, stores and streams video data.
Design and development of the operator’s workplace allowing viewing live and recorded video data, controlling cameras, thermal imagers, etc.
Design and development of a DirectShow filter to consume streaming video over the RTSP protocol.
Far end camera control subsystem implementation.
Hardware lock protection of the system.
Test plan development and testing.

Currently the system is in active use. The ProWide Labs developers are adding new functionality on the customer’s request.

Technologies and Standards:

RTSP/RTP/RTCP for video streaming
H.264/MPEG4/MJPEG for video decoding
AAC/PCM for audio decoding
PelcoD, QuickSet PTCR-95, AXIS VAPIX for camera control
Google Protocol Buffers to define a data transfer protocol
DirectShow

Development environment:

Programming Languages: С/C++
Compilers: gcc/g++, MSVC++
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
User Interface Framework: Qt
Video API Library: GStreamer

Project size:

67 thousand lines of C++ code
12 months, a team of 4 developers