Identified presence detection in and around premises

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016335865-A1
Application number	US-201615151613-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 11, 2016
Priority date	May 13, 2015
Publication date	Nov 17, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A unified presence detection and prediction platform that is privacy aware is described. The platform is receives signals from plural sensor devices that are disposed within a premises. The platform produces profiles of entities based on detected characteristics developed from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors, i.e., non-video and non-audio sensor devices. The platform using these profiles and sensor signals from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors determines specific identification and produces historical patterns. Also described are techniques that allow users (persons), when authorized, to control remote devices/systems generally without direct interaction with such systems merely by the systems detecting and in instances predicting the specific presence of an identified individual in a location within the premises.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A system comprises:
a plurality of non-video and non-audio sensor devices; a system coupled to the plurality of non-video and non-audio sensor devices, the system configured to:
receive signals from at least some of the plurality of non-video and non-audio sensor devices in response to detection of an entity moving through a premises;
retrieve profile records of entities having established profiles on the system, with each profile storing corresponding identification information of an entity associated with the profile and parameter information of characteristics associated with the corresponding entity; and for each profile,
determine from the signals received from the sensors corresponding parameters;
determine a number of sufficiently close matches of the determined parameters to parameter information from retrieved profile records;
select from the retrieved profile one of the profiles having the highest number of determined number of sufficiently close matches as the specifically identified entity.

2 . The system of claim 1 further configured to:
process the signals from the sensors to determine presence of a moving object and to determine parameter values associated with the moving object.

3 . The system of claim 1 further configured to:
produce a profile record populated with the determined parameter values associated with the moving object, when each of the retrieved profile records have no matching parameters.

4 . The system of claim 1 wherein the plurality of non-video and non-audio sensor devices are sensor device types selected from the group consisting of motion detectors, glass break detectors, noxious gas sensors, smoke/fire detectors, contact/proximity switches, temperature sensors, vibration sensors, air movement/pressure sensors, chemical/electro-chemical sensors, weight sensors, global positioning system transceivers, optical detectors, biometric sensors, EGG/Heartbeat sensors in wearable computing garments, network hotspots, and r.f. detectors.

5 . The system of claim 1 further configured to:
determine which profile record or records have above a threshold number of closely matching parameter values; and
when plural profile records have above the threshold number of closely matching parameter values;
determine which profile record has a highest number of matching parameter values.

6 . The system of claim 5 wherein the profile record is a first profile record and the system is further configured to:
receive a request to generate a profile;
receive user inputs of user personal information;
produce a second profile record from the data received from the user; and
store the second profile record.

7 . A system comprises:
plural sensor devices; a computing device, configured to: receive signals from the plural sensor devices; retrieve a profile of an entity from a data store; retrieve movement flow records from the data store, the movement flow records comprising data from one or more sensors and temporal information regarding time and day of collection; analyze the retrieved movement flow records according to a historical pattern rule to determine from the sensor signal data and the temporal information, a set of sensors that satisfy for the retrieved profile the historical pattern rule; construct a representation of the set of sensors that corresponds to an order and relationship of sensors encountered by the entity associated with the movement records.

8 . The system of claim 7 wherein the computer system is further configured to:
produce an historical pattern record.

9 . The system of claim 7 wherein the computer system is further configured to:
produce an historical pattern record that includes a reference to the representation of the set of sensors, a profile ID corresponding to the profile and a Rule ID.

10 . The system of claim 7 wherein analysis applies a pattern recognition algorithm to analyze the retrieved movement flow records to determine a historical pattern from the movement flow records.

11 . The system of claim 7 further configured to:
determine a location of a user from signals sent from one or more of the sensor devices;
determine from signals sent by the one or more sensor devices, an identity of the user;
retrieve from the database one or more patterns corresponding to an action predicted by the system to be performed by the identified user; and
send control signals corresponding to determined control actions to the one or more systems/devices to perform the determined control action by the systems/devices.

12 . The system of claim 7 wherein a first one of the one or more control devices is a panel for an alarm/security system, the system further configured to:
authenticate the user for accessing and performing the control action on the panel.

13 . The system of claim 7 further configured to:
receive a request for operating in an activity replication learning mode for one or more specific periods of time.

14 . The system of claim 7 wherein the constructed representation represents a historical pattern of actions performed by one or more individuals over specified one or more periods of time, with the system further configured to:
produce a listing of actions performed by the one or more individuals over the specific one or more periods of time;
produce control messages according to the listing to control devices and or systems within the premises; and
send the control messages according to a sequence in the listing to control the devices and or systems within the premises.

15 . A system for determining occurrences of false alarms triggered by an intrusion detection system, the system comprises:
a computing device including a processor device and memory, the computing device configure to: receive data from a plurality of non-video and non-audio sensor devices; receive an assertion of an alarm condition from an intrusion detection system; process the received sensor data from the plurality of sensor devices to detect presence of a moving object within a specific location; retrieve from a database profile records of expected entities in the premises; determine one or more matches of physical attributes from the profiles to detected physical attributes provided by detection of presence from the sensor data; determine from presence or absence of matches whether to confirm assertion the alarm condition from the intrusion detection system; and send the determined confirmation to the intrusion detection system.

16 . The system of claim 15 , further configured to:
produce by a profile system a new profile that is populated with data received from the plurality of non-video and non-audio sensor devices, when there are no matches.

17 . The system of claim 15 , further configured to:
send a message to the intrusion detection system when confirmation of an alarm condition is determined to cause the intrusion detection system to issue the alarm; and produce a message including an indication of what triggered the alarm.

18 . The system of claim 17 wherein based on the processing of the profile and presence information, the system determines that the alarm was triggered by movement of a family pet or the presence of authorized persons in the premises the system, sends to the intrusion detection system a message to retire the assertion of the alarm.

19 . The system of claim 18 wherein based on the processing of the profile and presence information, the system does conf

Assignees

• Sayavong Rajmy
• Hill Greg
• Leblanc David J
• Rosewall Jr Samuel D
• Bluhm Gerald M
• DeRose IV Michael
• Vandervecht Rob
• Tyco Fire & Security Gmbh

Inventors

• Sayavong Rajmy
• Hill Greg
• Leblanc David J
• Rosewall Jr Samuel D
• Bluhm Gerald M
• DeRose IV Michael
• Vandervecht Rob

Classifications

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• G06F16/951

  Indexing; Web crawling techniques · CPC title

• G08B13/2491 Primary

  Intrusion detection systems, i.e. where the body of an intruder causes the interference with the electromagnetic field · CPC title

• G06F16/245

  Query processing · CPC title

• G08B13/00

  Burglar, theft or intruder alarms · CPC title