Occupancy detection by social media

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9990832-B2
Application number	US-201615097474-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 13, 2016
Priority date	Apr 13, 2016
Publication date	Jun 5, 2018
Grant date	Jun 5, 2018

Abstract

A method for security and/or automation systems is described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving social media data via a signal, analyzing the social media data based at least in part on a first parameter, identifying occupancy information based at least in part on the analyzing, and assessing a structure occupancy based at least in part on the identifying.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for a security and/or automation system, comprising:
receiving social media data via a signal;
analyzing the social media data based at least in part on a first parameter to determine a first occupancy information at a structure, wherein the first occupancy information comprises a current occupancy information at the structure based at least in part on a location of a user of the security and/or automation system;
identifying a first probability associated with the first occupancy information based at least in part on a first weight assigned to the determined first occupancy information;
assigning a second weight to a second occupancy information determined from sensor data received from a sensor located at the structure, the sensor including at least one of a motion sensor, camera sensor, thermostat sensor, proximity sensor, or audio sensor, or any combination thereof, wherein the second occupancy information comprises the current occupancy information at the structure based at least in part on a schedule of the user;
modifying the first probability based at least in part on a weighted first occupancy information and a weighted second occupancy information, wherein the modified probability comprises a future probability of the user occupying the structure within a predetermined time; and
assessing a structure occupancy based at least in part on the modified probability.

2. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
receiving sensor data from the sensor located at the structure, the sensor data being related to the structure occupancy; and
wherein the analyzing further comprises analyzing the sensor data.

3. The method of claim 2 , comprising:
analyzing the sensor data based at least in part on a second parameter.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein assessing the structure occupancy comprises:
assessing the first probability associated with the first occupancy information based at least in part on analyzing the social media data based at least in part on the first parameter; and
assessing a second probability associated with the second occupancy information based at least in part on analyzing the sensor data based at least in part on the second parameter.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein at least one of the first probability and the second probability comprises the future probability.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first parameter comprises:
at least one of a word, a phrase, a character combination, an emoticon, a hashtag, a photo, a video, an object recognition, and a location.

7. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
transmitting a notification based at least in part on the assessing.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the social media data comprises:
social media data of at least a first user and a second user.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein assessing the structure occupancy comprises:
assessing the first probability associated with the first occupancy information based at least in part on analyzing the social media data of the first user; and
assessing a second probability associated with the first occupancy information based at least in part on analyzing the social media data of the second user.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first parameter comprises:
at least one of an object detection, a facial recognition, a time stamp information, and a global positioning system (GPS) tag.

11. An apparatus for a security and/or automation system, comprising:
a processor;
memory in electronic communication with the processor; and
instructions stored in the memory, the instructions being executable by the processor to:
receive social media data via a signal;
analyze the social media data based at least in part on a first parameter to determine a first occupancy information at a structure, wherein the first occupancy information comprises a current occupancy information at the structure based at least in part on a location of a user of the security and/or automation system;
identify a first probability associated with the first occupancy information based at least in part on a first weight assigned to the determined first occupancy information;

assigning a second weight to a second occupancy information determined from sensor data received from a sensor located at the structure, the sensor including at least one of a motion sensor, camera sensor, thermostat sensor, proximity sensor, or audio sensor, or any combination thereof, wherein the second occupancy information comprises the current occupancy information at the structure based at least in part on a schedule of the user;
modify the first probability based at least in part on a weighted first occupancy information and a weighted second occupancy information, wherein the modified probability comprises a future probability of the user occupying the structure within a predetermined time; and
assess a structure occupancy based at least in part on the modified probability.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , the instructions being executable by the processor to:
receive sensor data from the sensor located at the structure, the sensor data being related to the structure occupancy; and
wherein the analyzing further comprises analyzing the sensor data.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , the instructions being executable by the processor to:
analyze the sensor data based at least in part on a second parameter.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein assessing the probability of the structure occupancy comprises:
assessing the first probability associated with the first occupancy information based at least in part on analyzing the social media data based at least in part on the first parameter; and
assessing a second probability associated with the second occupancy information based at least in part on analyzing the sensor data based at least in part on the second parameter.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein at least one of the first probability and the second probability comprises the future probability.

16. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the first parameter comprises:
at least one of a word, a phrase, a character combination, an emoticon, a hashtag, a photo, a video, an object recognition, and a location.

17. The apparatus of claim 11 , the instructions being executable by the processor to:
transmitting a notification based at least in part on the assessing.

18. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the social media data comprises social media data of at least a first user and a second user.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein assessing of the structure occupancy comprises:
assessing the first probability associated with the first occupancy information based at least in part on analyzing the social media data of the first user; and
assessing a second probability associated with the first occupancy information based at least in part on analyzing the social media data of the second user.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable code for a security and/or automation system, the code executable by a processor to:
receive social media data via a signal;
analyze the social media data based at least in part on a first parameter to determine a first occupancy information at a structure, wherein the first occupancy information comprises a current occupancy information at the structure based at least in part on a location of a user of the security and/or automation system;
identify a first probability associated with the first occupancy informat

Assignees

• Vivint Inc

Inventors

• Davis Aaron
• Bunker Brandon
• Lin Rongbin Lanny
• Liu Shiwei

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06N7/01

  Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks · CPC title

• G08B21/22 Primary

  responsive to presence or absence of persons · CPC title

• G08B19/00

  Alarms responsive to two or more different undesired or abnormal conditions, e.g. burglary and fire, abnormal temperature and abnormal rate of flow · CPC title

• H04L51/32

  Electricity · mapped topic