Remote user interface and display for events for a monitored location

• US 10,083,599 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2017
• Issued: 09/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canary Connect, Inc. (Smartfrog Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Canary Connect, Inc. (Smartfrog Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sager, Adam D., Rill, Christopher I.
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAM, NAM D
• Application Number:
  US15/457,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20170186309A1
• Time in Patent Office: 561 Days
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Abstract

Providing information about a monitored environment comprises monitoring a location by a plurality of sensors, collecting data from the plurality of sensors by a processing device, and providing information to a user of the status of the location based on data collected by at least some sensors, for display on a user device, via a network. A user may be enabled to scroll through updates in the order that the information was provided, on the user device, by an App, for example. Providing video clips from a location to a user device comprises storing first video clips related to respective events at the location that the user has been informed of and/or receiving a request to provide stored video clips of the location over a time period, from the user, retrieving the stored video clips, and providing the retrieved video clips to a user device for display.

Claims

1. A method of providing information about a monitored location, the method comprising:

monitoring the location with a plurality of sensors, wherein the plurality of sensors includes;

a camera with night vision capability, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a motion sensor, and an air quality sensor;

detecting motion in the monitored location with a passive infrared sensor;

processing data from the plurality of sensors with a processing device; and

providing information, via a network, for display on a user device, wherein the information comprises information about a status of the location that was determined based, in part, on the processing of data from at least some of the plurality of sensors by the processing device,

measuring acceleration of the monitoring device with an accelerometer,

wherein the camera with night vision capability, the temperature sensor, the humidity sensor, the motion sensor, the air quality sensor, the passive infrared sensor, the accelerometer, and the processing device are within a single housing of a monitoring device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information is provided if criteria with respect to the data from at least one of the plurality of sensors is met.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein at least certain of the criteria comprises exceeding a threshold and/or deviating from a pattern of the data collected by one or more of the plurality of sensors over a time period.

4. The method of claim 2, comprising:

determining that criteria for at least one of the sensors is met; and

providing the information based, at least in part, on at least one sensor having collected data that exceeds a respective threshold, and at least one sensor having collected data not meeting a respective one of the criteria.

5. The method of claim 4, comprising:

determining that the data collected from at least one of the temperature sensor, the humidity sensor, the motion sensor, the air quality sensor, and/or the accelerometer, meets a respective one of the criteria;

providing information related to the met criteria; and

providing video from data collected by the camera at a time the data meeting the criteria is collected.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the provided information includes data that exceeds one of the criteria.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving a response from the user to the provided information based, at least in part, on the data meeting the criteria and the data not meeting the criteria; and

providing subsequent information based, at least in part, on the response.

8. The method of claim 2, comprising displaying on a user device the provided information.

9. The method of claim 8, comprising enabling the user to scroll, on the user device, through the information in an order that the provided information was provided.

10. The method of claim 8, comprising:

providing the information to the user based on data collected by a plurality of monitoring devices in the location;

enabling the user to scroll through the information provided based on the data collected from at least some of the plurality of monitoring devices, in an order that the information was provided;

or

enabling the user to toggle between the information provided based on the data collected from at least some of the plurality of monitoring devices.

11. The method of claim 8, comprising:

providing the information to the user based on the data collected by a plurality of monitoring devices in a plurality of different locations associated with the user; and

enabling the user to scroll through the information from particular devices, in the order the information was provided.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein at least some of the information includes a geo-location of the user.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising enabling the user to scroll through information in an order that the information was provided, over a course of at least one day.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising delivering sound through a speaker in the housing of the monitoring device.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising sounding a siren from the housing of the monitoring device.

16. A system for providing information about a monitored environment, the system comprising:

a monitoring device in a monitored environment, the monitoring device comprising;

a single housing;

a plurality of sensors for sensing characteristics of the monitored environment, wherein the plurality of sensors include a camera with night vision capability, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a motion sensor, and an air quality sensor;

an accelerometer for measuring acceleration of the monitoring device;

a passive infrared sensor for detecting motion in the monitored physical location; and

a processing device;

wherein the camera with night vision capability, the temperature sensor, the humidity sensor, the motion sensor, the air quality sensor, the accelerometer, the passive infrared sensor, and the processing device are within the single housing of the monitoring device,

wherein the processing device is configured to;

process data collected by the sensors; and

provide the information about the monitored environment, via a network, for display on a user device, wherein the information about the monitored environment is based, at least in part, on the data collected by at least one of a plurality of sensors and processed by the processing device.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein respective updates are provided to the user if criteria with respect to the data from at least one of the plurality of sensors is met.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein meeting at least certain of the criteria comprises exceeding a threshold and/or deviating from a normal pattern.

19. The system of claim 17, comprising:

determining that the criteria with respect to the data from at least one of the plurality of sensors is met; and

providing in one of the respective updates information related to the plurality of sensors, including at least one of the plurality of sensors for which the criteria is not met.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the processing device is configured to:

determine whether a criteria relating to at least one of the temperature sensor, humidity sensor, motion sensor, air quality sensor, and/or accelerometer is met; and

provide in one of the respective updates information related to the met criteria, video from data collected by the camera.

21. The system of claim 17, wherein the processing device is further configured to:

receive a response from the user to the one of the respective updates based, at least in part, on the data meeting the criteria and the data not meeting the criteria; and

provide subsequent information based, at least in part, on the response.

22. The system of claim 16, wherein the information includes data related to the met criteria.

23. The system of claim 16, wherein the monitoring device further comprises an audio speaker in the housing of the monitoring device for delivering sound.

24. The system of claim 16, wherein the monitoring device further comprises a siren in the housing of the monitoring device.