FILTERING VIDEO EVENTS IN A SECURED AREA USING LOOSE COUPLING WITHIN A SECURITY SYSTEM

摘要

A method and apparatus for detecting events in a security system. The method includes the steps of providing a secured area having a plurality of physical sensors that detect events associated with the secured area and a plurality of video devices that each collect video images of the secured area and detect motion within the collected images, a database storing events associated with activated sensors and video sequences associated with detected motion and an event processor associating activation of a predetermined sensor of the plurality of sensors with detected motion from a predetermined video device of the plurality of video devices and storing the associated video sequence and identifier of the activated sensor in a log file.