BASIC INFORMATION
Short name: RobotView
Long name: Wireless Robotic Surveillance Platform
Company: CYBERNETIC TECHNOLOGIES NETICTECH SA | netictech.com
Country: Poland
Call: F4Fp-02-Stage1 and F4Fp-02-Stage2 (see call details)
Proposal number: F4Fp-02-Stage1-05 | F4Fp-02-Stage2-05
SUMMARY REMARKS & TESTBEDS
STAGE 1
NETICTECH is developing the Wireless Robotic Surveillance Platform “RobotView”, enabling real-time video surveillance using WiFi and mobile networks from remote controlled robots. The platform is designed for police, security and rescue forces to enable surveillance and operation in places hazardous to humans. In times of higher security risks, RobotView can save lives of officers, by allowing them to send a robot and remotely watch the video from the installed cameras in real-time. RobotView is not bound to a specific robotic solution, it is a vendor agnostic system, allowing to transmit video coming from cameras installed on the robot using wireless networks. The system is in the testing stage now and in the experiment we want to test our encoding and transmission parameters in order to tune them for usage in various types of wireless networks. The system has adaptation mechanism to react to changing network parameters and maintain needed video quality. We want to find a correlation between QoS and QoE, define encoding and transmission profiles for various network conditions, making RobotView ready for the market.Our product is beyond the state-of-the-art of currently available robotic surveillance systems as it allows for continuous real-time surveillance, utilising both WiFi and mobile networks.
STAGE 2
NETICTECH is developing the Wireless Robotic Surveillance Platform “RobotView”, enabling real-time video surveillance using WiFi and mobile networks from remote controlled robots. The platform is designed for police, security and rescue forces to enable surveillance and operation in places hazardous to humans. In times of higher security risks, RobotView can save lives of officers, by allowing them to send a robot and remotely watch the video from the installed cameras in real-time. RobotView is not bound to a specific robotic solution, it is a vendor agnostic system, allowing to transmit video coming from cameras installed on the robot using wireless networks. The system has adaptation mechanism to react to changing network parameters and maintain needed video quality. Our product is beyond the state-of-the-art of currently available robotic surveillance systems as it allows for continuous real-time surveillance, utilising both WiFi and mobile networks. The system is in the testing stage now and in the experiment we want to test our encoding and transmission parameters in order to tune them for usage in various types of wireless networks. We want to find a correlation between QoS and QoE, define encoding and transmission profiles for various network conditions, making RobotView ready for the market. In stage 1 of the experiment, we have used the NITOS testbed to evaluate a first set of parameters in the WLAN and LTE environments, proving the experiment’s feasibility and usefulness. In stage 2 we will continue testing in NITOS and additionally utilise w-iLab.t to test the platform in a mobile robot environment.
