<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>With the more attention of the security of the hotels, an effective hotel monitoring system was required. Based on the Samsung S3C2440, the proposed system uses the Linux system to accomplish the intelligent video surveillance. Using the image acquisition process and the embedded BOA server, designed an intelligent video image acquisition system. The system capturing image by the USB camera and building an embedded Web server, which complete the image acquisition, image processing, and the image transmission function. It can see the acquire result on to the LAN at the PC via the webpage. It could complete the function of image acquisition, image processing, image transmission, the realization of ultimate in local area net PC through a Web view the result.</p></abstract>

With the more attention of the security of the hotels, an effective hotel monitoring system was required. Based on the Samsung S3C2440, the proposed system uses the Linux system to accomplish the intelligent video surveillance. Using the image acquisition process and the embedded BOA server, designed an intelligent video image acquisition system. The system capturing image by the USB camera and building an embedded Web server, which complete the image acquisition, image processing, and the image transmission function. It can see the acquire result on to the LAN at the PC via the webpage. It could complete the function of image acquisition, image processing, image transmission, the realization of ultimate in local area net PC through a Web view the result.


<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_s_001"><label>I.</label><div>INTRODUCTION</div><p>There are many products in the market for hotel monitoring, but these products are often expensive and cannot be widely applied to all kinds of hotels. Based on the above, this system using Linux operation system based on the ARM9 processor to construct the monitoring system, which can be widely used in the hotel lobby, stairs and building dead ends, so as to ensure the real-time monitoring of the hotel in all directions [<a ref-type="bibr" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_ref_001">1</a>].</p></sec><sec id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_s_002"><label>II.</label><div>THE STRUCTURE OF THE SYSTEMYPE</div><p>This system is based on the Linux embedded system, mainly composed of the software and the hardware [<a ref-type="bibr" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_ref_002">2</a>]. It includes the image and video collection, the display module, the data processing and the transmission module. The network transmission environment is LAN. The structure of the system is shown in Figure <a ref-type="fig" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_001">1</a>.</p><figure id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_001" position="float" fig-type="figure"><h2>Figure 1.</h2><figCaption><p>Overall structure diagram of the system</p></figCaption><img xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="graphic/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_001.jpg" src="https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6471f50b215d2f6c89db6c16/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_001.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Date=20240725T163153Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=18000&amp;X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKP25APDM2%2F20240725%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Signature=5f8abc9563c868c34c22ac03c0d8dcb6f11a33b6e72d2c8d8d8f5ac8e8111aae" class="mw-100"/></figure><p>The image acquisition module collects the image data through the USB camera [<a ref-type="bibr" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_ref_003">3</a>]. The data processing module mainly deals with the user commands and the operation of the generated data. Data transmission module is currently popular browser /Web server mode, through the embedded Web server communicates the client PC browser between the HTTP data format. The image display module is the PC port under the LAN, which sends data requests to the Web server through the browser web pages [<a ref-type="bibr" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_ref_004">4</a>].</p></sec><sec id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_s_003"><label>III.</label><div>THE MONITORING SYSTEM STRUCTURESTRUCTURE</div><p>According to the functional requirements of this system, the following hardware devices are needed. The specific hardware structure is showed in Figure <a ref-type="fig" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_002">2</a>.</p><figure id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_002" position="float" fig-type="figure"><h2>Figure 2.</h2><figCaption><p>The system hardware structure</p></figCaption><img xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="graphic/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_002.jpg" src="https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6471f50b215d2f6c89db6c16/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_002.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Date=20240725T163153Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=18000&amp;X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKP25APDM2%2F20240725%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Signature=883ba74047456452a2f1f3e536055158ee924905072c3b0bb3880720de20e4e3" class="mw-100"/></figure><p>In Figure <a ref-type="fig" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_002">2</a>, ARM9 S3C2440 is the main chip of the system. The image data was collected by the USB camera; the collected images stored in SDRAM for transferred facilitate [<a ref-type="bibr" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_ref_005">5</a>]. The video data stored in Flash. By the DM9000 card, the network module could communicate with the development board. At the same time, in order to realize the serial communication interface RS232 combined the monitoring system and PC. The wireless network connects the wireless LAN and the development board for the wireless communication.</p></sec><sec id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_s_004"><label>IV.</label><div>DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF 3 IMAGE ACQUISITION MODULE</div><sec id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_s_004_s_001"><label>A.</label><div>Design of software system</div><p>Based on the Linux operation system, the image acquisition program, the Web server BOA and the CGI/HTML5 were combined together [<a ref-type="bibr" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_ref_006">6</a>]. The software structure is shown in Figure <a ref-type="fig" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_003">3</a>.</p><figure id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_003" position="float" fig-type="figure"><h2>Figure 3.</h2><figCaption><p>The system software structure</p></figCaption><img xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="graphic/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_003.jpg" src="https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6471f50b215d2f6c89db6c16/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_003.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Date=20240725T163153Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=18000&amp;X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKP25APDM2%2F20240725%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Signature=927c0d84c87d4ef79d51c3dcb0e3308964423570723d02c63f64b289878eb090" class="mw-100"/></figure><p>The operating system uses the management processors, the memory, the devices and the user interfaces. The Linux operation system could be reduced for the requirement function [<a ref-type="bibr" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_ref_007">7</a>]. The application program could visit the device by the related API and then controls the hardware through the driver.</p></sec><sec id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_s_004_s_002"><label>B.</label><div>Design and implementation of the image acquisition module</div><p>V4L (Video4 Linux) is the driven structure of the video device in the Linux kernel. It provides a unified function interface for the upper-layer applications accessing to the underlying video devices.</p><p>V4L2 could support the multiple hardware devices and the running framework of V4L2 in Linux is shown in Figure <a ref-type="fig" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_004">4</a>.</p><figure id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_004" position="float" fig-type="figure"><h2>Figure 4.</h2><figCaption><p>The structure of V4L2</p></figCaption><img xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="graphic/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_004.jpg" src="https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6471f50b215d2f6c89db6c16/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_004.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Date=20240725T163153Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=18000&amp;X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKP25APDM2%2F20240725%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Signature=0eb6d428f940d3d933213bd888ab3df363629d827a18c77e5265fcfcf87d8195" class="mw-100"/></figure><p>From Figure <a ref-type="fig" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_004">4</a>, the frame structure mainly includes four parts. It is showed in Table <a ref-type="fig" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_008">1</a>.</p><figure id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_009" position="float" fig-type="figure"><h2>TABLE 1.</h2><figCaption><p>THE FRAME STRUCTURE OF V4L2</p></figCaption><img xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="graphic/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_009.jpg" src="https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6471f50b215d2f6c89db6c16/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_009.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Date=20240725T163153Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=18000&amp;X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKP25APDM2%2F20240725%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Signature=daf902604f12ff4ea40507058cf149efc3810edfb3bf6debec20bc8403c618fc" class="mw-100"/></figure></sec><sec id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_s_004_s_003"><label>C.</label><div>Video image acquisition programs</div><p>After the embedded processor gets the image information, the JPEG compress program is executed and the image acquisition is completed. Finally, the video coding is carried out by the MPEG-4 video coding standard. The process of video image acquisition is shown in Figure <a ref-type="fig" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_006">5</a>.</p><figure id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_005" position="float" fig-type="figure"><h2>Figure 5.</h2><figCaption><p>The image collection flow chart</p></figCaption><img xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="graphic/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_005.jpg" src="https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6471f50b215d2f6c89db6c16/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_005.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Date=20240725T163153Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=18000&amp;X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKP25APDM2%2F20240725%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Signature=52f88bd51b24acae10498f15b70b701129120e8fc9871fe57a0aa063ebca258f" class="mw-100"/></figure><p>First, the system creates a file to save the collected image information. Next, open the USB camera’s device. With opening the device file, gets the driver information of the device. After the image formatting is completed, the image buffer will be applied [<a ref-type="bibr" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_ref_008">8</a>]. Then establish the mapping of the kernel space image buffer to the user space. Finally, using the camera to capture the image data, the collected data will be saved to the driver’s buffer [<a ref-type="bibr" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_ref_009">9</a>].</p></sec><sec id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_s_004_s_004"><label>D.</label><div>Design and implementation of image transmission</div><p>After the video image file collection is well done, the Web server should be established. Through the network protocol, the client can browse the Website and download the files. That is the mainstream browser/server mode [<a ref-type="bibr" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_ref_010">10</a>].</p><p>With the characteristics of embedded Linux system and the requirement of the development board hardware resources (DM9000), the communication between the Web server and the client using the TCP/IP protocol. By the CGI program, realizes the video data transmission. The transferred diagram among the development board, server and the client is shown in Figure <a ref-type="fig" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_007">6</a>:</p><figure id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_006" position="float" fig-type="figure"><h2>Figure 6.</h2><figCaption><p>The net transmission based on the TCP/IP protocol</p></figCaption><img xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="graphic/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_006.jpg" src="https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6471f50b215d2f6c89db6c16/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_006.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Date=20240725T163153Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=18000&amp;X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKP25APDM2%2F20240725%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Signature=e5d58c70c7e8595d516c57c8fe2173d82fc05f80839969e160a33696e2b91e46" class="mw-100"/></figure><p>DM9000 net chip sets the IP address and the physical address of the development board. When the development board works in the normal Linux system, connects the RJ45 interface to the router through the cable, the wired/wireless devices in the same local area net can achieve the network communication.</p></sec></sec><sec id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_s_005"><label>V.</label><div>TEST RESULT OF THE IMAGE TRANSMISSION</div><sec id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_s_005_s_001"><label>A.</label><div>Design of CGI andHTML5 netpage</div><p>The system could browse and download the video files on the web page which collected by the development board [<a ref-type="bibr" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_ref_011">11</a>]. So the server needs to respond to the request from the client web page and access the files in the server through the CGI common gateway interface program. The CGI program’s model in the server is shown in the Figure <a ref-type="fig" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_008">7</a>.</p><figure id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_007" position="float" fig-type="figure"><h2>Figure 7.</h2><figCaption><p>The flow chart of the CGI</p></figCaption><img xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="graphic/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_007.jpg" src="https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6471f50b215d2f6c89db6c16/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_007.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Date=20240725T163153Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=18000&amp;X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKP25APDM2%2F20240725%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Signature=2952bd4b39d5d65b40b3f423cf83c1ac55293ace4236bfcedbbd785c4028c145" class="mw-100"/></figure><p>The CGI program is running on the server and the client sends a CGI request through the HTML pages to the server. The server receives will be executed after the specified CGI application, then the CGI application sends the result to the client web browser. This result is formatted into HTML format and displayed by the browser.</p></sec><sec id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_s_005_s_002"><label>B.</label><div>The test results</div><p>In this paper, using our school hotel as an example to implement and test the function of the above system. The system ensures the overall stability and smooth operation of the system, and completes the image video acquisition and the client’s web page display [<a ref-type="bibr" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_ref_012">12</a>]. The monitoring result is showed in Figure <a ref-type="fig" href="#j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_008">8</a>.</p><figure id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_008" position="float" fig-type="figure"><h2>Figure 8.</h2><figCaption><p>The test result of the proposed monitoring system</p></figCaption><img xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="graphic/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_008.jpg" src="https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6471f50b215d2f6c89db6c16/j_ijanmc-2018-005_fig_008.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Date=20240725T163153Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=18000&amp;X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKP25APDM2%2F20240725%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Signature=5d659064353bb55401f1f157560cf336744e4636bfbc3c23f277fd02c37f10d4" class="mw-100"/></figure></sec></sec><sec id="j_ijanmc-2018-005_s_006"><label>VI.</label><div>CONCLUSIONS</div><p>The all-around monitoring of the hotel has become a basic condition for safety. Video surveillance is not only small, stable and safety, but also does not appear the “dead angle” phenomenon than the artificial monitoring. Based on the characteristic, the proposed video acquisition and transmission system has a very good market prospect.</p></sec></div>

Design of the Hotel Monitoring System for the Image and Video Collection

International Journal of Advanced Network, Monitoring and Controls

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With the more attention of the security of the hotels, an effective hotel monitoring system was required. Based on the Samsung S3C2440, the proposed system...

Design of the Hotel Monitoring System for the Image and Video Collection

Publicado en línea: 07 may 2018

Páginas: 23 - 26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijanmc-2018-005

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Video Sensor, Linux, USB Camera, V4L2, Web Server

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Design of the Hotel Monitoring System for the Image and Video Collection

Publicado en línea: 07 may 2018

Páginas: 23 - 26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijanmc-2018-005

Palabras claveVideo Sensor, Linux, USB Camera, V4L2, Web Server

© Wang Pengfei 2018 et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Video Sensor, Linux, USB Camera, V4L2, Web Server