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US 11,050,578 B2Granted
Sensor monitoring and control for building condition
AssigneeHartford Fire Insurance Company
InventorsMichael Louis Brandman, Julia M. Feldman, Richard J. Marchetti, Steinar Ryen
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Abstract
Apparatus and systems for providing home and building security and condition monitoring include a plurality of devices, including intelligent, multi-sensing, network-connected devices, that communicate dynamically with each other and a remote server.
Claims16
A dynamic building control system for detecting one or more conditions associated with one or more building regions of a building property, the system comprising:
- a wireless network in communication with:
- a plurality of sensors configured to monitor the one or more building regions of the building property, wherein each of the plurality of sensors is configured to generate electronic signals corresponding to one or more sensed conditions of the one or more building regions;
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- a plurality of electronic and electromechanical devices configured to control one or more building components;
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- an electronic control center connected to the wireless network, a remote server system, and a remote data system, wherein the electronic control center is configured to:
- receive, from the wireless network, the electronic signals corresponding to the one or more sensed conditions of the one or more building regions;
- transmit, via a communications interface device, to the remote server system, data related to the electronic signals;
- receive, via the communications interface device from the remote server system, instructions for controlling one or more of the plurality of electronic and electromechanical devices to mitigate a risk condition when the data related to the electronic signals indicates a presence of the risk condition corresponding to the one or more building regions;
- transmit, via the wireless network to the one or more of the plurality of electronic and electromechanical devices, the instructions to control the one or more of the plurality of electronic and electromechanical devices to mitigate the risk condition, wherein the one or more of the plurality of electronic and electromechanical devices are configured to implement the instructions;
- receive, after implementation of the instructions by the one or more of the plurality of electronic and electromechanical devices, additional electronic signals from the plurality of sensors corresponding to the one or more sensed conditions of the one or more building regions;
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- transmit, via the communications interface device to the remote server system, additional data related to the additional electronic signals;
- wherein the remote server system:
- determines, based upon the additional data whether the risk condition was mitigated by the implementation of the instructions;
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- responsive to a determination that the risk condition was not mitigated by the implementation of the instructions, modifies one or more stored parameters associated with the building property.
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A system comprising:
- a communications interface device for transmitting and receiving data from an electronic control center networked with a plurality of sensors for detecting one or more conditions associated with one or more building regions of a building property, the data related to electronic signals generated by one or more of the plurality of sensors corresponding to one or more sensed conditions of the one or more building regions;
- a data storage device configured to store sensor data;
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- a server communicatively coupled to the communications interface device and the data storage device and configured to:
- receive, from the electronic control center via the communications interface device, initial activity data including initial electronic signals corresponding to the one or more sensed conditions of the one or more building regions;
- determine whether the initial activity data indicates a presence of a risk condition corresponding to the one or more building regions;
- responsive to a determination that the initial activity data indicates the presence of a risk condition, transmit via the communications interface device to a user computing device, a risk condition message indicating the presence of the risk condition;
- receive, by the communications interface device from the user computing device, instructions for the electronic control center to generate control signals for controlling one or more of a plurality of electronic and electromechanical devices to mitigate the risk condition;
- receive, from the electronic control center after implementation of the control signals by the one or more of the plurality of electronic and electromechanical devices, additional activity data including additional electronic signals from the plurality of sensors corresponding to the one or more sensed conditions of the one or more building regions;
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- determine, based upon the additional activity data, whether the risk condition was mitigated by the implementation of the control signals;
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- responsive to a determination that the risk condition was not mitigated by the implementation of the control signals, modify one or more stored parameters associated with the building property.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.