System and method for property monitoring
AssigneeSimpliSafe, Inc.
InventorRahul Subramany
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Abstract
An outdoor camera integrated into an alarm system for property monitoring, configured to monitor a property. The alarm system can have a base station that communicates with all the components of the alarm system, such as an outdoor camera, which can be equipped with an imaging sensor and software capabilities to conduct analysis on data collected by the outdoor camera to determine information about a human or non-human visitor at the property. The outdoor camera provides information about detected events at the property to the base station, where the data can be used to take appropriate action at the property and communicate with either the user or a monitoring service.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- based on a security system being in an armed state, performing, by a camera of the security system, first processing on first image data acquired by the camera to identify a first event;
- based on the security system being in a disarmed state, performing, by the camera, second processing, different than the first processing, on second image data acquired by the camera to identify a second event different than the first event;
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- sending, from the camera to at least a first device, first data indicative of the first event.
A camera for use in a security system, comprising:
- a camera that is configured to acquire image data from a property monitored by a security system, wherein the camera is configured to operate in a selected one of (A) a first mode in which the camera performs first processing on the image data to identify first events, and sends first data indicative of the first events to at least a first device, and (B) a second mode in which the camera performs second processing, different than the first processing, on the image data to identify second events;
- wherein the camera is further configured to operate in the first mode when the security system is in an armed state and to operate in the second mode when the security system is in a disarmed state.
A camera for use in a security system, comprising:
- an imaging device;
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the camera to:
- based on the security system being in an armed state, perform first processing on first image data acquired by the camera to identify a first event;
- based on the security system being in a disarmed state, perform second processing, different than the first processing, on second image data acquired by the camera to identify a second event different than the first event;
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- send, to at least a first device, first data indicative of the first event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.