Mobile device as a security system component
AssigneeResolution Products, LLC
InventorsPaul G. Saldin, David J. Mayne, Brian K. Seemann
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
In one implementation, a method for using a mobile computing device as a security system component includes receiving, from a mobile device and by a security system gateway, mobile device sensor information associated with sensor data captured by the mobile device at a premises monitored by the security system gateway; identifying, based on the received sensor information, a mobile device sensor information rule; identifying an action to perform in the mobile device sensor information rule; and automatically performing the identified action, by the security system gateway, in response to receiving the sensor information from the mobile device.
Claims20
A method for using a smartphone as a component of a security system, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a security system gateway of the security system and from the smartphone, instructions for controlling the security system, wherein the smartphone is configured to execute a security application that causes the smartphone to operate in a dual sensor-interface mode in which the smartphone acts as a controller and as a sensor of the security system;
- controlling, by the security system gateway, one or more aspects of the security system based on the received instructions;
- detecting, by the security application executed by the smartphone, audio at a premises;
- determining, by the security application executed by the smartphone, that the detected audio meets or exceeds a predefined decibel level;
- after determining that the detected audio meets or exceeds the predefined decibel level, transmitting audio information that represents the detected audio, by the smartphone and to the security system gateway;
- receiving, by the security system gateway and from the smartphone, the audio information that represents the detected audio;
- and
- in response to receiving the audio information that represents the detected audio from the smartphone:
- identifying a type of audio information;
- and
- based on the type of audio information, performing, by the security system gateway, one or more security actions that correspond to the type of audio information.
A security system comprising a security system gateway and one or more smartphones, wherein the security system is configured to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at the security system gateway of the security system and from a smartphone, instructions for controlling the security system, wherein the smartphone is configured to execute a security application that causes the smartphone to operate in a dual sensor-interface mode in which the smartphone acts as a controller and as a sensor of the security system;
- controlling, by the security system gateway, one or more aspects of the security system based on the received instructions;
- detecting, by the security application executed by the smartphone, audio at a premises;
- determining, by the security application executed by the smartphone, that the detected audio meets or exceeds a predefined decibel level;
- after determining that the detected audio meets or exceeds the predefined decibel level, transmitting audio information that represents the detected audio, by the smartphone and to the security system gateway;
- receiving, by the security system gateway and from the smartphone, the audio information that represents the detected audio;
- and
- in response to receiving the audio information that represents the detected audio from the smartphone:
- identifying a type of audio information;
- and
- based on the type of audio information, performing, by the security system gateway, one or more security actions that correspond to the type of audio information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.