On-demand mobile device location polling

A method for determining a mobile device status comprising:

• transmitting, by a home management controller of a premises, to a particular mobile device registered with a system controlled by the home management controller, a request to the particular mobile device to transmit a location notification to the home management controller, the location notification indicating a location of the particular mobile device;
• determining, by the home management controller, either:
• (i) a status of the particular mobile device to be nonoperational or unavailable when the home management controller fails to receive the location notification from the mobile device within a predetermined amount of time, or (ii) the status of the particular mobile device to be operational or available based on the location notification when the location notification is received within the predetermined amount of time;
• determining a system behavior triggered based on the status of the particular mobile device;
• and
• controlling a component of the system according to the system behavior,
• wherein the request is transmitted when one of the following events has occurred:
• the registered mobile device has not triggered a boundary of a GeoFence at a certain time, the registered mobile device has not been in contact with the home management controller for a preset amount of time;
• a user of another mobile device has interacted with the home management controller;
• or a motion has been detected in the premises during a time that motion has not typically been detected.