scope:

The visual surveillance service is a telecommunication service focusing on video (including audio) application technology, which is used to capture multimedia (such as audio, video, image and various alarm signal) and present them to end users in a user-friendly manner, based on a managed broadband network with ensured quality, security and reliability.

P2P visual surveillance is a type of video surveillance (VS) system, which provides a way for users to access video streams directly from cameras through the Internet, without transferring any video streams via the VS platform.

This Recommendation focuses on the architecture of a P2P visual surveillance system, including its functional requirements, functional architecture, entities, service flows and interfaces.