Mobile device as a security system component
AssigneeResolution Products, LLC
InventorsPaul G. Saldin, David J. Mayne, Brian K. Seemann
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Abstract
In one implementation, a method for using a mobile computing device as a security system component includes receiving, from a mobile device and by a security system gateway, mobile device sensor information associated with sensor data captured by the mobile device at a premises monitored by the security system gateway; identifying, based on the received sensor information, a mobile device sensor information rule; identifying an action to perform in the mobile device sensor information rule; and automatically performing the identified action, by the security system gateway, in response to receiving the sensor information from the mobile device.
Claims20
A method for using a smartphone as a component of a security system, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a security system gateway of the security system and from the smartphone, control instructions for controlling the security system;
- controlling, by the security system gateway, one or more aspects of the security system based on the control instructions;
- receiving, from the smartphone and by the security system gateway, sensor information associated with sensor data captured by the smartphone at a premises monitored by the security system, wherein the smartphone is configured to operate in a dual sensor-interface mode in which the smartphone acts as a sensor and as a controller for the security system;
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- in response to receiving the sensor information from the smartphone, performing, by the security system gateway, one or more actions, by:
- identifying, based on the received sensor information, a sensor information rule;
- identifying one or more actions that correspond to the sensor information rule;
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- performing the one or more actions that correspond to the sensor information rule, wherein the one or more actions include the sending of a notification of the sensor information to another smartphone that is different from the smartphone from which the sensor information was received.
A security system comprising a security system gateway, wherein the security system gateway is configured to wirelessly communicate with one or more smartphones, and wherein the security system gateway is configured to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, from a smartphone, control instructions for controlling the security system;
- controlling one or more aspects of the security system based on the control instructions;
- receiving, from the smartphone, sensor information associated with sensor data captured by the smartphone at a premises monitored by the security system, wherein the smartphone is configured to operate in a dual sensor-interface mode in which the smartphone acts as a sensor and as a controller for the security system;
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- in response to receiving the sensor information from the smartphone, performing one or more actions, by:
- identifying, based on the received sensor information, a sensor information rule;
- identifying one or more actions that correspond to the sensor information rule;
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- performing the one or more actions that correspond to the sensor information rule, wherein the one or more actions include the sending of a notification of the sensor information to another smartphone that is different from the smartphone from which the sensor information was received.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.