S6 Project
A Smart, Social and SDN-based Surveillance System for Smart-cities
Description
S6 Project (A Smart, Social and SDN-based Surveillance System for Smart-cities) is a platform that aims to create an innovative and pervasive video surveillance system that allows you to exploit the potential offered by the combination of the two technologies, SDN and NFV, and the edge and fog computing paradigms thanks to the latter's characteristic of decentralizing the intelligence of information systems by moving the computational capabilities from the cloud, or from the central computing nodes, to the periphery of the network and, in particular, to the access nodes. The goal is, therefore, to create a system of Smart Access Nodes (SAN), managed by a common Orchestrator, within which to instantiate functions of computer vision, artificial intelligence, sensors and real-time video streaming functions on- demand that allow you to share content and / or enable alarm functions in a social way.
Features of S6 Project
The project therefore aims to create a real Internet of Things applied to video surveillance, consisting of a multitude of cameras and sensors to be deployed over a city area.
SMART
because new features can be created and integrated into the system at any time and in a non-invasive way (without suspending the service itself)
GREEN
because, thanks to the virtualization techniques inherited from cloud computing, it is possible to automatically perform the so-called "resource consolidation operations", according to which the computational load of virtual machines running on lightly loaded servers can be concentrated on a small number of servers , allowing the others to be switched off for the purpose of energy saving, obviously always in compliance with the quality of the service requirements
SCALABLE
since, thanks to the use of the fog computing paradigm that shifts the computational load to the edge, the use of large data centers is not required even when the extension of the territory covered by the service increases; moreover the SDN optimizes the number of streams that the network must manage, avoiding unnecessary duplication of the video streams in the multipoint-to-multipoint transmission from the cameras and sensors to the users; -social, since everyone can add cameras to the system, share images with other users, register for the contents and functionalities of the cameras of interest, and receive data and images according to their access permissions
EFFICIENT
since the same cameras are used by several subjects, institutional and otherwise, with the consequent saving of money and energy. For example, the Police Forces will not need to contact the owners of individual video surveillance systems but will have a pervasive and capillary shooting system integrated with computer vision algorithms capable of facilitating many prevention and investigation tasks.
EUROPEAN UNION
REPUBLIC
ITALIAN
SICILIAN REGION
S6 Project
ACTION 1.1.5 of the ERDF PO. 2014/2020
Support for the technological advancement of companies through the financing of pilot lines and actions for early product validation and large-scale demonstration.
Project in a group of companies
Thematic Objective 1 - Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Specific objective 1.1 - Increase the innovation activity of enterprises
Service 5 - Technological innovation and policies for economic development
Contractor: Vicosystems
Registered office: via Etnea, 736 - 95128 Catania
Operating Unit: via Etnea, 736 / PAL. B - 95128 Catania
VAT number: 04790640876
Project n. 08620200 0588
CUP: G19J18001220007,
Project title: "S6 Project"
Charon Code: SI_1_22982.
APPLICABLE TO ANY ACCESS NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE
connecting SANs nodes in mesh mode via WiFi and LTE connections, and immediately migratable to future next-generation mobile radio technologies of 5G networks, in which the radio access points will be nodes with native SDN / NFV functionality that will then be able to host the architecture of SANs developed during this project
