On Supporting a Reliable Performance of Monitoring Services with a Guaranteed Quality Level in a Heterogeneous Environment.

The process of ensuring security of citizens requires access to information from sensors placed in various points of monitoring and data acquisition systems. IP video monitoring networks are nowadays the main element of a system that combines a variety of software and hardware architectures forming a heterogeneous environment. Ensuring implementation of monitoring services with a predictable quality level is an important challenge for monitoring systems. The paper includes presentation of a QoS platform that offers the possibility of support for monitoring services based on the information on video stream quality parameters. The proposed solution is part of the quality support system for monitoring and data acquisition system implemented in the INSIGMA project.