Method and apparatus for detecting an emergency situation in a room
AssigneeCarrier Corporation
InventorsSumanth Kumar Mukundala, Adam Kuenzi
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Abstract
A method of detecting an emergency situation in a room of a hotel is provided. The method comprising: monitoring an access control operably connect to a door of a room; determining that the access control has not been engaged; determining that activity has not been detected in the room for a selected time period; and activating an alarm.
Claims20
A system of detecting an emergency situation in a room of a hotel, the system comprising:
- a processor, and
- a memory comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- monitoring a door lock operably connected to a door of a room, the door lock comprising a dead bolt lock that can be actuated manually from inside the room;
- detecting actuation of the dead bolt from an unlocked position to a locked position;
- determining that the dead bolt has not been moved from the locked position to the unlocked position for a first selected time period;
- determining that activity has not been detected in the room for a second selected time period;
- and
- activating an alarm.
A computer program product tangibly embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- monitoring an door lock operably connected to a door of a room, the door lock comprising a dead bolt lock that can be actuated manually from inside the room;
- detecting actuation of the dead bolt from an unlocked position to a locked position;
- determining that the dead bolt has not been moved from the locked position to the unlocked position for a first selected time period;
- determining that activity has not been detected in the room for a second selected time period;
- and
- activating an alarm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.