A METHOD AND REAL TIME EMERGENCY RESPONSE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM WITH AN EMERGENCY SWITCH

摘要

A real time emergency response surveillance system, method and computer readable medium storing a computer program for responding to an emergency situation are disclosed The system includes one or more surveillance stations communicatively coupled to an operations center Each surveillance station includes a controller, a video camera, a communication module, a display screen and an emergency switch The surveillance station can be placed in one of a surveillance mode and an emergency response mode The surveillance station can be placed in emergency response mode responsive to an emergency signal received from the operations center or responsive to activation of the emergency switch Real time video data is transmitted from the surveillance station to the operations center in both the surveillance mode and the emergency response mode Real time video data is received from the operations center at the surveillance station in emergency response mode