Mobile terminal security systems

摘要

Systems that can track an object as it moves across the field of view of the security device, integrate transaction data with the object information, and can identify events that trigger an alert and methods for using the systems.

主权项

1. A method for operating a security system in an environment including mobile point-of-sale (POS) components, the method comprising:
acquiring and recording an image of an object from one camera of a number of security cameras; each camera from the number of security cameras having position information and calibrated to identify other cameras from the number of security cameras in the vicinity of said each camera; calibration including field of view relations; providing the object with an identifier if the object meets predetermined criteria; the identifier provided to the object being a characteristic of the object; linking the object with transaction data from a mobile POS component; tracking the object from said one camera to another camera in the vicinity of said one camera as the object moves; providing video data for the object and the transaction data link to the object to a server; the video data for the object and the transaction data link to the object being stored at a database; and utilizing the server to determine whether an event requiring an alert has occurred; and utilizing the server to manage alerts; wherein the utilizing the server to manage alerts comprises:
determining a type of alert for the alert using stored logic methods; wherein the stored logic methods select a user designated reaction;merging an identifying ID with the alert type;determining a location of the alert; andtransmitting, using a transmitter and a preselected transmission method, the merged ID and alert type and the location to a predetermined site; wherein the server includes one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer usable medium that has computer readable code embodied therein, which, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to receive the video data for the object and the transaction data link to the object, store the video data for the object and the transaction data link to the object in the database, determine, using the logic methods, whether an even requiring an alert has occurred and manage alerts.