Method, system and apparatus for controlling security sirens of a security system
AssigneeUniversal Electronics Inc.
InventorsThomas Thibault, Michael Bailey
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Abstract
Described is a method, apparatus and system for controlling one or more security sirens of a security system. A security system controller receives alarm signals from security sensors of the security system. In response, the security system controller determines one or more conditions related to the security system and then generates one or more siren control signals that are used to control audible alerts generated by one or more of the security sirens.
Claims6
A security system controller of a security system having a security siren, comprising:
- a communication interface;
- a non-transitory memory for storing processor-executable instructions;
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- a processor, coupled to the first communication interface and the non-transitory memory, for executing the processor-executable instructions that causes the processor to:
- receive, via the communication interface, an alarm signal from a security sensor;
- respond to receiving the alarm signal by generating a one of a first siren control signal that causes the security siren to sound an alarm at a first volume level and a second siren control signal that causes the security siren to sound an alarm at a second volume level louder than the first volume level based on one or more conditions related to the security system;
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- transmit, via the communication interface, the one of the first siren control signal and the second siren control signal to the security siren;
- wherein the one or more conditions comprise an elapsed time after the security system was installed.
A method, performed by a security system controller of a security system having a security siren, comprising:
- receiving an alarm signal from a security sensor of the security system;
- responding to receiving the alarm signal by generating a one of a first siren control signal that causes the security siren to sound an alarm at a first volume level and a second siren control signal that causes the security siren to sound an alarm at a second volume level louder than the first volume level based on one or more conditions related to the security system;
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- transmitting the one of the first siren control signal and the second siren control signal to the security siren;
- wherein the one or more conditions comprise an elapsed time after the security system was installed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.