User-configurable person detection system, method and apparatus
AssigneeEcolink Intelligent Technology, Inc.
InventorsBrandon Gruber, George Seelman
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Abstract
A system, method and apparatus for configuring a person detection sensor. The person detection sensor may limit its transmissions in accordance with a pre-configured dwell time. The person detection sensor may receive a new dwell time from a personal communication device. When the new dwell time is received, it is stored in memory and is then used to regulate the number of transmissions of the person detection sensor in accordance with the new dwell time.
Claims14
An apparatus for configuring a dwell time of the apparatus, comprising:
- a detector for detecting a presence of a person in an area;
- a memory for storing processor-executable instructions and the dwell time;
- a transceiver for sending and receiving wireless signals;
- and
- a processer coupled to the detector, the memory and the transceiver, for executing the processor-executable instructions that causes the apparatus to:
- receive, by the processor via the transceiver, a command from a personal communication device to change the dwell time;
- receive, by the processor via the transceiver, a new dwell time from the personal communication device;
- in response to receiving the command and the new dwell time from the personal communication device, store, by the processor, the new dwell time in the memory;
- determine, by the processor via the detector, the presence of the person in the area;
- determine, by the processor, an elapsed time since the transceiver previously transmitted a signal indicative of the presence of a person in the area;
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- when the processor determines that the elapsed time is less than the new dwell time, refrain, by the processor, from transmitting a new signal indicative of the presence of the person in the area.
A method, performed by a person detection device, for configuring a dwell time of the person detection device, comprising:
- receiving a command from a personal communication device to change the dwell time;
- receiving a new dwell time from the personal communication device;
- in response to receiving the command and the new dwell time from the personal communication device, storing the new dwell time in a memory of the person detection device;
- determining the presence of the person in the area;
- determining an elapsed time since the transceiver previously transmitted a signal indicative of the presence of a person in the area;
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- refraining from transmitting a new signal indicative of the presence of the person in the area when the processor determines that the elapsed time is less than the new dwell time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.