Features

DMS³Client, DMS³Server, and DMS³Dashboard Features

• Support for the DMS³Dashboard component, allowing for the easy, visual monitoring of all DMS³Client devices managed by a DMS³Server component

  • Mobile first, responsive, web-based design
  • Uses Go's HTML templating package to simplify Go/HTML integration
  • Easily integrate 3rd-party configurable HTML website templates

• Automated starting/stopping of any number of motion detection applications installed on smart device clients (e.g., the Motion motion detector software package) based on the presence/absence of user proxy devices

• Always On feature starts/stops the motion detection application based on time-of-day (e.g., can enable video surveillance during nighttime or specific holiday hours)

• Device clients can be custom-configured to process and respond to surveillance events independently and uniquely (e.g., an outdoor IR camera device only sends email during nighttime hours)

• Optionally play separate audio file(s) on surveillance system enable and disable

• Configurable event logging

  • INFO, ERROR, FATAL, and DEBUG log levels
  • Persist logs to file or send to STDOUT (terminal)

• MAC (Layer 2) address sensing

  • IPv4 protocol support
  • IPv6 protocol support [planned]

• Bluetooth user proxy sensing (using RSSI, L2CAP, or similar) [planned]

DMS³Mail Features

• Developed for use exclusively with Motion, DMS³Mail is an automated, real-time email notification service triggered by Motion-generated detection events

  • Fully configurable email message subject, body, etc. using the excellent Cerberus responsive HTML email template
  • Optionally attach an event image or video to an email message
  • SMTP-support for compatibility with most web-mail services (e.g., Gmail)
  • Configurable event logging
    • INFO, ERROR, FATAL, and DEBUG log levels
    • Persist logs to file or send to STDOUT (terminal)

Motion Detection Application Support

While DMS³ is primarily responsible for monitoring user proxies and determining when to enable or disable the surveillance system, it alone does not manage the processing of video stream data. That complex real-time task is left to motion detection libraries/applications which can be integrated directly into DMS³.

• Support for the Motion motion detector software package

  • Movement detection support of video devices. See this list for video device compatibility. Note that DMS³ was developed and tested using smart device clients running Motion with native camera support (e.g., a Raspberry Pi with an on-board camera module)

• Support for the OpenCV Library [planned]

  • OpenCV support is highly anticipated, but still experimental, though the current DMS³ codebase cleanly abstracts away any specific motion detection application dependencies so it is anticipated to be a very straightforward integration

Support for "Smart" and "Less Smart" Device Clients

DMS³ is designed to utilize intelligent IoT devices, called Smart Device Clients (SDCs), while still supporting less intelligent, single-purpose devices, called Less Smart Device Clients (LSDCs).

• DMS³ Smart Device Clients (SDCs) are hardware devices capable of processing local video streams for motion detection on-board, with dedicated hardware. Most computers and smaller single board computers (IoT SBCs) would be classed as smart device clients, including:

  • Raspberry PIs (DMS³ was tested with the RaspPi Model 2, Model 3, and Pi Zero W) with a configured on-board camera module
  • Any IoT single board computer (SBC) capable of running a Unix-like operating system
  • Personal computers with a camera and wired or wireless (WiFi) connectivity

• DMS³ Less Smart Device Clients (LSDCs) are hardware devices--typically purpose-built--unable to process motion detection video streams locally. These devices usually generate raw real-time video data, which is then sent, consumed and processed by an external device(s), oftentimes wirelessly across a network. Some examples of LSDCs include:

  • IP cameras (e.g., the Nest Cam), either wired or wireless
  • Webcams, typically using USB connections and run from a laptop or desktop computer