Controlling Surveillance Systems and PTZ Cameras from a Mobile Device

Abstract

A data center is a physical facility that organizations use to house their critical applications and data. An application delivery controller, router, switch, firewall, storage system, and server make up the design for the data center. Data security in the data center is critical due to these components' role in storing and managing critical business data and applications. An Android application has therefore been developed that can be used on smart phones to monitor and follow the performance of the data center camera monitoring system. Surveillance cameras in the data center allows the data center manager to monitor employees, machines, and all data center facilities from his office via his mobile phone, or even when he is out of the office, and to view a report of faults and maintenance to ensure the efficiency of the system. Using the application, the engineer can also control the cameras by panning and zooming in on the camera images in the data center, playback previous recordings of cameras, and review fault reports to find out the malfunctions of the monitoring system from anywhere with an Internet connection.