SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A system for surveillance of a region of interest (fig. 1). The system includes a number of monitors (12 of fig. 1), each monitor operative to acquire and to transmit periodically a description of a respective portion of the region of interest. The monitors (12 of fig. 1) are operative to transmit the descriptions in a first communication channel with insufficient bandwidth for all the monitors to transmit the descriptions simultaneously. The system also includes a control station (14 of fig. 1) for allocating respective portions of the channel to the monitors for the transmissions according to a number of rules. One or more of the rules includes feedback from the monitors that is separate from the descriptions (18 and 20 of fig. 1).