Systems and methods for managing access to surveillance cameras

摘要

The present invention overcomes or ameliorates at least one of the disadvantages of the prior art and provides a method for providing access to live video data from a plurality of cameras in a DVM system, the method including:
maintaining data indicative of cameras in a hierarchical structure;
receiving, from a user of a client terminal, a command indicative of:
(i) an instruction to generate a multi-camera view; and
(ii) a defined selection of cameras defined by reference to the hierarchical structure;

in response to the command, defining a camera workspace view for rendering at the client terminal, wherein the camera workspace view is configured to provide a plurality of video display objects that are respectively configured to display live video data from the defined selection of cameras.