Real-time architecture for a large distributed surveillance system

The latest generation of surveillance systems can be categorised as concurrent, distributed and large real-time systems. The most common and well-known approach to design these systems is based on object oriented technology. We present another approach to design an intelligent distributed surveillance system. The approach method is known as "real time network approach" or MASCOT, a design method for designing and implementing large real-time concurrent systems. The basic notion is that the flow of data through the system is controlled solely by a set of concurrent processes. We introduce the fundamental concepts of MASCOT and its possible contributions to the creation of good designs for such intelligent distributed surveillance systems. We finish with the illustration of a distributed real time surveillance system using this approach.