System and method for distributed security

A computer program products that is non-transitory and stores instructions that once executed by a server causes the server to manage an alert generated by a sensor of a security system that is associated with a property, by:

• receiving a first indication about the alert;
• searching in one or more data structures, for a validator that is associated with a validator address that is within a first predefined area that comprises a location of the property;
• sending to a device of the validator, a validation request for validating the alert;
• and informing at least one entity out of a police and a central monitoring station about the alert after the validator validated the alert.

A method for configuring a sensor of a security system that is associated with a property, the method comprises:

• receiving, by a computerized system, information about a type of the sensor;
• receiving or generating, by a computerized system, information about a space that is at least partially located within the property and should be monitored by the sensor after the sensor is installed;
• wherein the information about the space comprises at least one out of an image of the space, a size of the space, a shape of the space, a location of an obstacle within the space, information about one or more openings within the space, information about a pet that resides in the property, information about one or more humans that reside in the property and non-image information about the space;
• determining, by the computerized system and based on the information about the space and the type of the sensor, a configuration of the sensor;
• generating configuration information about the configuration of the sensor;
• assisting in inducing a person to configure the sensor according to the configuration information;
• receiving indication information that indicates that the sensor was installed and configured;
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• following the reception of the indication information, triggering a test for testing the sensor.

A method for monitoring a sensor a sensor of a security system that is associated with a property, the method comprises:

• receiving, by a computerized system, information about a quality of communication, at different points in time, between the sensor and a gateway that is coupled to the sensor and the computerized system;
• comparing the quality of information at the different points in time to provide a comparison result;
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• triggering a test of the sensor when the comparison result indicates that the quality of communication has deteriorated between a first point in time and a second point in time.

A method for monitoring a sensor a sensor of a security system that is associated with a property, the method comprises:

• receiving, by a computerized system, a current image of a space that is at least partially located within the property and is monitored by the sensor;
• wherein the current image was taken at a current point in time;
• comparing, by the computerized system, the current image to a previous image of the space to provide a comparison result;
• wherein the previous image of the space was taken at a previous point in time, the previous point in time precedes the current point in time;
• wherein when the comparison result is indicative of a presence of an obstacle within the space that appeared in the current image of the space but did not appear in the previous image of the space then performing a quality comparison between qualities of transmission from the sensor at the previous point in time and at the current point in time;
• sending an indication about the obstacle when the quality comparison is indicative of a quality deterioration between the previous point in time and the current point in time.

A method for monitoring and operating devices that are installed in a property, the method comprises:

• receiving, by a computerized system, power consumption information about power consumption of the devices during a learning period;
• calculating, by the computerized system and for each device, a device activity profile that is indicative of a utilization of the device during the learning period;
• receiving, by the computerized system, a request to operate at least some of the device under the control of the computerized system during a remote control period;
• determining, by the computerized system, an activation schedule of the at least some of the devices;
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• activating, by the computerized system and without human intervention, at the at least some device during the remote control period.