Fixed drone visualization in security systems
AssigneeJohnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
InventorAnthony Mucci
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Abstract
An unmanned aerial vehicle is described and includes a computer carried by the unmanned aerial vehicle to control flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle and at least one sensor. The unmanned aerial vehicle is caused to fly to a specific location within a facility, where the unmanned aerial vehicle enters a hover mode, where the unmanned aerial vehicle remains in a substantially fixed location hovering over the specific location within the facility and sends raw or processing results of sensor data from the sensor to a remote server system.
Claims21
1-7. (canceled)
A method of aerial surveillance, comprising:
- receiving, by a computer system from a server of a building, an alarm condition;
- programming, by the computer system and responsive to the alarm condition, an electronic component of a drone with a route between a starting point and a location associated with the alarm condition, the route indicated by a data structure representation of a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) devices;
- the drone configured to navigate to the location associated with the alarm condition based on determinations of drone position on the route using signals from the plurality of RF devices;
- and
- sending, by the drone, to the computer system, sensor data associated with the location associated with the alarm condition.
An aerial surveillance system, comprising:
- a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) devices;
- a computer system to:
- generate an indication of a route between a starting point and a location of interest, the indication of the route comprising a data structure representation of the plurality of RF devices;
- and
- a drone to:
- receive at least a portion of the indication of the route from the computer system;
- navigate to the location of interest based on signals from the plurality of RF devices;
- and
- send to the computer system sensor data of the location of interest.
A navigation system for an indoor aerial surveillance system comprising:
- a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) devices;
- and
- a computer system to:
- generate a data structure representation of a path between a starting point and a location of interest, the data structure representation comprising the plurality of RF devices and one or more routes between each of the plurality of RF devices;
- update the data structure representation based on data received from one or more drones;
- send a route of the one or more routes to a drone of the one or more drones;
- and
- the drone configured to navigate to a RF device of the plurality of RF devices based on the route and a position based on a signal from at least one of the plurality of RF devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.