US 11,455,897 B1Granted

Drone digital locker builder

AssigneeAlarm.com Incorporated

InventorsRobert Nathan Picardi, Matthew Daniel Correnti

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Abstract

Systems and techniques are described for cataloging objects in a property using a drone. In some implementations, a system monitors a property that includes a drone configured to survey the property. A control unit accesses data identifying items and provides instructions to the drone to locate the items. The control unit receives data identifying a location of a portion of the items, image data associated with each identified items, and data indicating remaining items not located. In response, the data identifying the remaining items and data indicating that the drone did not locate the remaining portion of the items are transmitted to a client device. The control unit receives data indicating a location within the property of a first group of the remaining portion of the items and data indicating that a second group of the remaining portion of the items are not located within the property.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property, the monitoring system comprising:

a drone that is configured to navigate the property and generate image data;
and
at least one computing device that is configured to:
receive, from an energy-monitoring device, an indication of a change in power consumption at the property;
determine, based on the received indication of the change in power consumption at the property, that a new device has been added to the property;
transmit, to the drone, an instruction to survey the property and identify the new device that is consuming power;
receive, from the drone, a notification that includes identification information for the new device;
determine whether the identification information for the new device matches one of a plurality of devices stored in a device database;
and
based on a determination that the identification information for the new device does not match one of the plurality of devices stored in the device database, provide, to a user of the monitored property, a message indicating that the new device has been identified by the monitoring system.

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A method comprising:

receiving, from an energy-monitoring device, an indication of a change in power consumption at a property, the property being monitored by a monitoring system that includes a drone that is configured to navigate the property and generate image data;
determining, based on the received indication of the change in power consumption at the property and by the monitoring system, that a new device has been added to the property;
transmitting, by the monitoring system and to the drone, an instruction to survey the property and identify the new device that is consuming power;
receiving, by the monitoring system and from the drone, a notification that includes identification information for the new device;
determining, by the monitoring system, whether the identification information for the new device matches one of a plurality of devices stored in a device database;
and
based on a determination that the identification information for the new device does not match one of the plurality of devices stored in the device database, providing, by the monitoring system and to a user of the monitored property, a message indicating that the new device has been identified by the monitoring system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/988,071Filed 7 Aug 2020 · continuation
Priority: 13 Aug 2018
Granted: 27 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

G08G 5/55
Navigation or guidance aids: for a single aircraft
B64U 10/13
Rotorcrafts: flying platforms
G05D 1/0094
Control of position, course, altitude or attitude of land, water, air or space vehicles, e.g. using automatic pilots: involving pointing a…
G05D 1/101
Simultaneous control of position or course in three dimensions: specially adapted for aircraft