We designed the architecture of the observation system to support capturing of high resolution videos. An intuitive design is to transmit videos to the storage site directly. There is, however, a risk of data lost caused by network instability and possibly electrical blackout. A set of hardware components is devised as the first tier processing and buffering device which stores videos temporarily while the video transmission process is waiting for a network channel. Higher bitrates, e.g., 5 mbps, are also tested in order to provide a clearer and more reliable data source for further video analysis. With the buffering space we are able to overcome network bandwidth limitations and transmit higher resolution videos in an effective way.

Authors and Affiliations

1. National Applied Research Laboratories, # 22, Keyuan Road, Central Taiwan Science Park, Taichung, 407, Taiwan

   Sun-In Lin

2. National Applied Research Laboratories, # 7, 6th RD Road, Science Park, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan

   Fang-Pang Lin & Hsiu-Mei Chou

Corresponding author

Correspondence toFang-Pang Lin.

Editors and Affiliations

1. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

   Robert B. Fisher

2. Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

   Yun-Heh Chen-Burger

3. Universita Degli Studi Di Catania, Catania, Italy

   Daniela Giordano

4. Informatica (CWI), Centrum Wiskunde &, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

   Lynda Hardman

5. High Performance Computing, National Center of, HsinChu, Taiwan

   Fang-Pang Lin

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