The optimal locations of surveillance cameras on straight lanes

  • Authors:
  • Y. -C. Hsieh;Y. -C. Lee;P. -S. You

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Industrial Management, National Formosa University, Huwei, Yunlin 632, Taiwan;Department of Security Technology and Management, WuFeng University, Ming-Hsiung, Chia-Yi 621, Taiwan;Graduate Institute of Marketing and Logistics/Transportation, National ChiaYi University, Chia-Yi 600, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the optimal locations of surveillance cameras on straight lanes. As known, inappropriate settings of surveillance cameras will result in some dead angles and dead space, and oversetting of surveillance cameras will waste limited resources. The considered location problem aims to minimize the maximal detection failure probability of points on straight lane subject to a limited budget. The problem is an important and complex location problem in practice. The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, exact closed forms of optimal locations of single-type surveillance cameras are derived. Secondly, we apply a PSO algorithm for solving the types and locations of multiple-type surveillance cameras. Numerical results are reported and compared with those by well known software LINGO. Limited numerical results show the effectiveness of PSO especially when the budget is limited.