LEVERAGING COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF IP SECURITY CAMERAS AND VIDEO MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE FOR INTERNATIONAL SAFEGUARDS

Use of unattended and remotely monitored systems to facilitate IAEA safeguards approaches has been increasing. According to the 2010 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Annual Report, between 2005 and 2010, the number of remotely monitored surveillance installations nearly tripled from 39 to 108. Collecting, managing, analyzing, and reviewing video surveillance data from these cameras can be a challenge. Secure video management is not a unique problem to IAEA safeguards. The IAEA Department of Safeguards, Division of Information Management is transitioning to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a means to integrate data and functionality from different systems, and adapting industry standard communication protocols is a priority for projects like the online enrichment monitor. This paper discusses a surveillance system architecture based on more broadly available commercial hardware and software. These components are based on industry standards that use SOA and are in use by thousands of customers. The authors believe the widespread usage and maturity of these products would enable safeguards research to focus on areas of unique concern. These software components could provide the video management backend and review tools for the IAEA Next Generation Surveillance System (NGSS), and these commercial off-the-shelf hardware components should be considered for the generation of surveillance equipment beyond NGSS.