System and method for automatically disarming an intrusion detection system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11011047-B2
Application number	US-202016834793-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 30, 2020
Priority date	May 30, 2017
Publication date	May 18, 2021
Grant date	May 18, 2021

Abstract

A system for automatically disarming an intrusion detection system protecting a premises and having at least an armed state of operation and a disarmed state of operation, the system for automatically disarming the intrusion detection system including an intrusion detection system state of operation ascertainer operable for receiving an indication of activation of an armed state of operation of the intrusion detection system; and a registered mobile communicator proximity detector communicating with the intrusion detection system state of operation ascertainer and operable, responsive to receiving the indication of activation of the armed state of operation by the intrusion detection system state of operation ascertainer for ascertaining at least a subset of a multiplicity of registered mobile communicators which are located in a vicinity of the premises during an activation time of the armed state of operation and for deactivating the subset of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system for automatically disarming an intrusion detection system protecting a premises and having an armed state of operation and a disarmed state of operation, comprising:
an intrusion detection system state of operation ascertainer operable for receiving an indication of an activation of the armed state of operation of the intrusion detection system;
an intrusion detection indication receiver operable for receiving an indication of a detection of an intrusion to the premises;
a registered mobile communicator proximity detector operable, responsive to the activation of the armed state of operation, for initially deactivating all of a multiplicity of registered mobile communicators and then reactivating one or more registered mobile communicators which are not located in a vicinity of the premises during an activation time of the armed state of operation;
the registered mobile communicator proximity detector further operable, responsive to the activation of the armed state of operation and to the detection of the intrusion to the premises, for ascertaining whether at least one of the one or more registered mobile communicators is in the vicinity of the premises; and
an automatic intrusion detection system disarmer operable, responsive to the at least one of the one or more registered mobile communicators being in the vicinity of the premises, for automatically disarming the intrusion detection system.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the registered mobile communicator proximity detector is further operable, responsive to the activation of the armed state of operation, for:
ascertaining that at least a subset of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators are located in the vicinity of the premises during the activation time of the armed state of operation; and
deactivating the subset of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the registered mobile communicator proximity detector is also operable, responsive to the activation of the armed state of operation and to the detection of the intrusion to the premises, for ascertaining whether at least one of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators which is not a member of the subset of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators is in the vicinity of the premises.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the automatic intrusion detection system disarmer is further operable for automatically disarming the intrusion detection system responsive to:
the activation of the armed state of operation;
the detection of the intrusion to the premises; and
the at least one of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators which is not the member of the subset of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators being in the vicinity of the premises.

5. The system of claim 2 , wherein the activation time of the armed state of operation comprises a finite activation period of time starting at the receiving of the indication of the activation of the armed state of operation.

6. The system of claim 2 , wherein the registered mobile communicator proximity detector is further operable for:
continuously ascertaining, during the activation time, for each deactivated mobile communicator, whether the deactivated mobile communicator is in the vicinity of the premises; and
responsive to ascertaining that the deactivated mobile communicator is not in the vicinity of the premises during at least a part of the activation time, for reactivating the deactivated mobile communicator.

7. The system of claim 2 , further comprising a deactivated mobile communicator ascertainer operable for:
querying, at an end of the activation time, an operator of each deactivated mobile communicator in the subset of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators, whether to reactivate the deactivated mobile communicator; and
responsive to receiving confirmation from the operator of the deactivated mobile communicator, for reactivating the deactivated mobile communicator.

8. The system of claim 3 , wherein the registered mobile communicator proximity detector is further operable for generating an intrusion indication indicative of the intrusion, responsive to:
the detection of the intrusion to the premises in the armed state of operation; and
ascertaining that none of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators which are not members of the subset of the plurality of registered mobile communicators are in the vicinity of the premises.

9. The system of claim 3 , wherein the receiving of the indication of the activation of the armed state of operation comprises communicating between the intrusion detection system and the intrusion detection system state of operation ascertainer over the PowerG communication protocol.

10. The system of claim 2 ,
wherein the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators are registered with the registered mobile communicator proximity detector via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) bonding; and
wherein the ascertaining that the at least the subset of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators which are located in the vicinity of the premises during the activation time comprises employing, by the registered mobile communicator proximity detector, the BLE communication protocol to scan the vicinity of the premises for the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators.

11. The system of claim 3 ,
wherein the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators are registered with the mobile communicator proximity detector via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) bonding; and
wherein the ascertaining of whether the at least one of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators which is not the member of the subset of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators is in the vicinity of the premises comprises employing, by the registered mobile communicator proximity detector, the BLE communication protocol to scan the vicinity of the premises for the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators which are not members of the subset of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators.

12. The system of claim 4 , wherein the automatically disarming comprises:
establishing a connection between the automatic intrusion detection system disarmer and the at least one of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicator which is not the member of the subset of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators;
communicating, by the automatic intrusion detection system disarmer to the at least one of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators, an indication that the intrusion detection system is in the armed state of operation;
responsive to receiving the indication that the intrusion detection system is in the armed state of operation, communicating, by the at least one of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicator to the automatic intrusion detection system disarmer, an instruction to disarm the intrusion detection system; and
responsive to receiving the instruction to disarm the intrusion detection system by the automatic intrusion detection system disarmer, forwarding, by the automatic intrusion detection system disarmer to the intrusion detection system, the instruction to disarm the intrusion detection system.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the automatically disarming further comprises:
responsive to receiving, by the intrusion detection system, the instruction to disarm the intrusion detection system, disarming the intrusion detection system by the intrusion detection system;
responsive to the disarming, communicating, by the intrusion detection system to the automa

Assignees

• Tyco Fire & Security Gmbh

Inventors

• Lifshitz Shai
• Rettig Daniel

Classifications

• G08B25/008 Primary

  Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system · CPC title

• G08B26/007

  Wireless interrogation · CPC title

• G08B25/001

  Alarm cancelling procedures or alarm forwarding decisions, e.g. based on absence of alarm confirmation · CPC title

• G08B13/26

  by proximity of an intruder causing variation in capacitance or inductance of a circuit · CPC title