Security monitoring and control

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9633547-B2
Application number	US-201414283132-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 20, 2014
Priority date	May 20, 2014
Publication date	Apr 25, 2017
Grant date	Apr 25, 2017

Abstract

Systems, methods, and software for monitoring and controlling a security system for a structure are provided herein. An exemplary method may include receiving sensor data from at least one first peripheral, the sensor data associated with at least one of activity inside and activity outside of a structure; determining a critical event based in part on the sensor data; creating an alert based in part on the critical event; getting user preferences associated with at least one of a user and a base unit; determining a response based in part on the alert and user preferences; and activating at least one of a second peripheral and a service based in part on the response.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for security monitoring and control comprising:
receiving sensor data from at least one first peripheral, the sensor data associated with at least one of activity inside and activity outside of a structure;
determining a critical event based in part on the sensor data;
creating an alert based in part on the critical event;
getting user preferences associated with at least one of a user and a base unit;
determining a response based in part on the alert and user preferences;
activating at least one of a second peripheral and a service based in part on the response;
detecting a wireless device associated with an intruder; and
determining one or more properties of the wireless device, the determining including detecting a digital fingerprint of the wireless device, the wireless device being an unpaired Bluetooth enabled device in discoverable mode, and the determining of one or more properties further includes at least one of executing software on, sending a chunk of data to, or sending a sequence of commands to the unpaired Bluetooth enabled device, so as to gain control of the unpaired Bluetooth enabled device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the first peripheral includes at least one of a cordless phone, door/gate sensor, window sensor, glass breakage sensor, flood sensor, pool sensor, and baby monitor.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
providing the alert to a server,
wherein the user preferences are received from the server.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
providing a notification to the user based at least on the response; and
receiving instructions from the user,
wherein the activating is further based on the instructions.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein
the second peripheral includes an unmanned aircraft, and the
activating the second peripheral includes:
sending the unmanned aircraft to an area of interest, the area of interest determined based at least on the critical event;
sensing at least one of video and audio, the sensing using at least one of video and audio sensors disposed on the unmanned aircraft; and
providing the at least one of video and audio.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein
the second peripheral includes at least one cordless phone, and the
activating the second peripheral includes:
silently turning on a microphone of the at least one cordless phone;
sensing audio using the microphone; and
providing the audio.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the activating the second peripheral further includes playing a selected recorded announcement using a speaker of the at least one cordless phone, the selection of the recorded announcement based at least on the response.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the activating the service includes posting to social media to alert neighbors based at least on the response.

9. A base unit comprising:
a processor; and
a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to perform a method for security monitoring and control including:
receiving sensor data from at least one first peripheral, the sensor data associated with at least one of activity inside and activity outside of a structure;
determining a critical event based in part on the sensor data;
creating an alert based in part on the critical event;
getting user preferences associated with at least one of a user and a base unit;
determining a response based in part on the alert and user preferences;
activating at least one of a second peripheral and a service based in part on the response;
detecting a wireless device associated with an intruder; and
determining properties of the wireless device, the wireless device being an unpaired Bluetooth enabled device in discoverable mode, and the determining properties includes at least one of executing software on, sending a chunk of data to, or sending a sequence of commands to the unpaired Bluetooth enabled device, so as to gain control of the unpaired Bluetooth enabled device.

10. The base unit of claim 9 wherein the first peripheral includes at least one of a cordless phone, door/gate sensor, window sensor, glass breakage sensor, flood sensor, camera, smart thermostat, pool sensor, and baby monitor.

11. The base unit of claim 9 wherein the method further comprises:
providing the alert to a server,
wherein the user preferences are received from the server.

12. The base unit of claim 9 wherein the method further comprises:
providing a notification to the user based at least on the response; and
receiving instructions from the user,
wherein the activating is further based on the instructions from the user.

13. The base unit of claim 9 wherein
the second peripheral includes an unmanned aircraft, and the
activating the second peripheral includes:
sending the unmanned aircraft to an area of interest, the area of interest determined based at least on the critical event;
sensing at least one of video and audio, the sensing using at least one of video and audio sensors disposed on the unmanned aircraft; and
providing the at least one of video and audio.

14. The base unit of claim 9 wherein
the second peripheral includes at least one cordless phone, and the
activating the second peripheral includes:
silently turning on a microphone of the at least one cordless phone;
sensing audio using the microphone; and
providing the audio.

15. The base unit of claim 14 wherein the activating the second peripheral further includes playing a selected recorded announcement using a speaker of the at least one cordless phone, the selection of the recorded announcement based at least on the response.

16. The base unit of claim 9 wherein the activating the service includes posting to social media to alert neighbors based at least on the alert.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor to perform a method for security monitoring and control, the method comprising:
receiving sensor data from at least one first peripheral, the sensor data associated with at least one of activity inside and activity outside of a structure;
determining a critical event based in part on the sensor data;
creating an alert based in part on the critical event;
getting user preferences associated with at least one of a user and a base unit;
determining a response based in part on the alert and user preferences;
activating at least one of a second peripheral and a service based in part on the response;
detecting a wireless device associated with an intruder; and
determining one or more properties of the wireless device, the wireless device being an unpaired Bluetooth enabled device in discoverable mode, and the determining of one or more properties includes at least one of executing software on, sending a chunk of data to, or sending a sequence of commands to the unpaired Bluetooth enabled device, so as to gain control of the unpaired Bluetooth enabled device.

Assignees

• Ooma Inc

Inventors

• Farrand Tobin E
• Gillon William M
• Snow Kevin D
• Krein William T
• Bryan David A

Classifications

• G08B25/006

  Alarm destination chosen according to type of event, e.g. in case of fire phone the fire service, in case of medical emergency phone the ambulance · CPC title

• G08B25/10

  using wireless transmission systems {(G08B25/009 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• G08B13/02

  Mechanical actuation · CPC title

• G08B25/08

  using communication transmission lines {(G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence)} · CPC title

• G08B25/008

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