Security alarm system and method with realtime streaming video
OwnerJames Otis Faulkner, Richard Matyel Blakeinventors
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Abstract
A security alarm system that provides secure, realtime video of a secured location to one or more emergency response agencies over a high-speed communications link, such as an Internet link. Realtime video information is therefore placed directly into the hands of those who are called upon and trained to respond to a potential emergency. As such, the emergency response agencies and their personnel are better informed. This, in turn, allows the personnel to be better prepared in their response to the potential emergency, saving manpower, money, lives and reducing the number of false alarms.
Claims16
A security alarm system comprising:
- a video camera and an alarm sensor positioned at a secured location;
- means, located at a security system central station, for receiving, processing and displaying realtime video generated by said video camera and received over a communications link;
- means for transmitting the realtime video from the central station to an emergency response agency over a communication link;
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- means, located at the emergency response agency, for receiving, processing and displaying realtime video generated by said video camera.
A security alarm system comprising:
- a video camera and one or more alarm sensors positioned at a secured location;
- a video server including means for receiving realtime video from said video camera and for receiving an alarm signal from one of said alarm sensors;
- means, located at a security system central station, for receiving, processing and displaying said realtime video which is received from said video server over an Internet connection;
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- means, associated with a mobile emergency response unit, for receiving, processing and displaying said realtime video received from the central station over an Internet connection.
A method of providing realtime video in a security alarm system, said method comprising the steps of:
- generating a realtime video signal at a secured location;
- transmitting the realtime video signal from the secured location to a security system central station over a communications link;
- transmitting the realtime video signal from the central station to the an emergency response agency over a communications link;
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- displaying realtime video of the secured location at the emergency response agency based on the realtime video signal transmitted from the secured location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.