S3: The IBM Smart Surveillance System: From Transactional Systems to Observational Systems
Arun Hampapur, Sergio Borger, L. Brown, C. Carlson, Jonathan H. Connell, M. Lu, Andrew Senior, Vinod Reddy, Chenchen Shu, Yingli Tian · 2007
Pervasive sensor based systems are transforming Information Technology systems from being transactional in nature to being observational in nature. Observational systems are inherently distributed and capture information at a much finer grain of space and time. Enabling and building such systems also poses many technology challenges, extracting information from sensor signals, indexing and searching sensor meta-data, data mining and scalability. In this paper we use S3: the IBM smart surveillance system as an example of an observational system to explore several of these issues through real world deployment examples.