US 11,238,724 B2Granted

Systems and methods for automatically activating self-test devices of sensors of a security system

AssigneeAdemco Inc.

InventorsLokanatha Reddy Jondu, Kalpaga Kanakarajan, Samidurai Krishnamoorthy

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Abstract

Systems and methods for automatically activating self-test devices of sensors of a security system are provided. Such systems and methods can include a self-test monitoring device that can identify a test triggering event and, responsive thereto, activate the self-test devices of the sensors and determine whether each of the sensors passes or fails a respective self-test associated with its self-test devices. In some embodiments, when any of the sensors fails its respective self-test, the self-test monitoring device can identify one or more notification devices based on a type of the test triggering event and transmit a self-test failure report to the one or more notification devices.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving user input identifying a preplanned absence of a user of a security system from a region;
identifying a test triggering event associated with the region, wherein the test triggering event includes a non-emergency type comprising receipt of the user input identifying the preplanned absence and an emergency type comprising a notification of an alert condition;
responsive to identifying the test triggering event, activating a first self-test device of a first sensor of the security system that monitors the region;
determining whether the first sensor passes or fails a first self-test associated the first self-test device;
identifying a remaining battery life of the first sensor from results of the first self-test and determining that the first sensor fails the first self-test when the remaining battery life of the first sensor is less than a length of the preplanned absence;
when the first sensor fails the first self-test and the type of test triggering event is identified as the non-emergency type comprising receipt of the user input identifying the preplanned absence, identifying a user device associated with the user of the security system as the one or more notification devices;
when the first sensor fails the first self-test and the type of test triggering event is identified as the emergency type comprising the notification of the alert condition, identifying at least one third party device associated with local authorities or a system provider of the security system as the one or more notification devices;
and
transmitting a first self-test failure report to the one or more notification devices.

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A system comprising:

a self-test monitoring device;
a first sensor of a security system that monitors a region;
and
one or more notification devices,
wherein the self-test monitoring device receives user input identifying a preplanned absence of a user of the security system from the region, and wherein the self-test monitoring device identifies a test triggering event, wherein the test triggering event includes a non-emergency type comprising receipt of the user input identifying the preplanned absence and an emergency type comprising a notification of an alert condition,
wherein, responsive to identifying the test triggering event, the self-test monitoring device activates a first self-test device of the first sensor and determines whether the first sensor passes or fails a first self-test associated with the first self-test device,
wherein the self-test monitoring device identifies a remaining battery life of the first sensor from results of the first self-test and determines that the first sensor fails the first self-test when the remaining battery life of the first sensor is less than a length of the preplanned absence,
wherein, when the first sensor fails the first self-test and the type of test triggering event is identified as the non-emergency type comprising receipt of the user input identifying the preplanned absence, identifying a user device associated with the user of the security system as the one or more notification devices,
wherein, when the first sensor fails to first self-test and the type of test triggering event is identified as aft the emergency type comprising the notification of the alert condition, identifying at least one third party device associated with local authorities or a system provider of the security system as the one or more notification devices, and
wherein the self-test monitoring device transmits a first self-test failure report to the one or more notification devices.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/277,396Filed 15 Feb 2019
Published: US 2020/0264685 A120 Aug 2020
Granted: 1 Feb 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

G08B 29/14
Checking intermittently signalling or alarm systems: checking the detection circuits
G01R 31/392
Arrangements for testing, measuring or monitoring the electrical condition of accumulators or electric batteries, e.g. capacity or state of…
G06F 1/3231
Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality: monitoring the presence, absence or movement of users
G08B 25/08
Characterised by the transmission medium: using communication transmission lines