Portable security device that communicates with home security system monitoring service

• US 10,210,746 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2018
• Issued: 02/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Eskildsen, Kenneth, Okeefe, Mark, Piel, Kevin G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Barakat, Mohamed
• Application Number:
  US15/927,732
• Publication Number:
  US 20180218593A1
• Time in Patent Office: 335 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/552 involving long-term monitoring or reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2827 Reporting to a device within the home network; wherein the reception of the information reported automatically triggers the execution of a home appliance functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication

Abstract

A security system may include a home security system that is connected to a remote monitoring service as well as a portable security device that can travel with an individual when they are away from home. The portable security device may communicate with the same monitoring service as the home security system, and may in fact be linked to the same user account as that used for their home security system. The home security system may thus be extended to cover a remote location. In some cases, occupants of an individual'"'"'s home may be notified via the home security system of alert conditions detected by the portable security device at the remote location. Likewise, occupants of the remote location may be notified via the portable security device of alert conditions detected in the home by the home security system.

Claims

1. A portable security system configured to be used in a remote living space within a building that is remote from a home that is outfitted with a home security system, wherein the home security system is associated with a security system monitoring server, the portable security system comprising:

one or more sensors configured to detect one or more alert conditions in the remote living space;

a local alert device;

a memory for storing identifying information suitable for associating the portable security system with the home security system of the home;

a communications module configured to communicate with the security system monitoring server that is associated with the home security system of the home at least in part through a network connection; and

a controller operatively coupled to the one or more sensors, the local alert device, the memory, and the communications module, the controller configured to provide a localized alert via the local alert device when the one or more sensors detect one or more alert conditions in the remote living space, the controller further configured to use the identifying information stored in the memory and the communication module to communicate with and notify the security system monitoring server at least in part through the network connection when one or more of the alert conditions in the remote living space is detected by the one or more sensors so as to extend the home security system of the home to include the remote living space.

2. The portable security system of claim 1, wherein the home security system includes an alert device, and wherein the security system monitoring server is configured to activate the alert device of the home security system when the portable security system detects one or more of the alert conditions in the remote living space.

3. The portable security system of claim 2, wherein the home security system is configured to notify the security system monitoring server when one or more alert conditions are detected in the home, and wherein the security system monitoring server is configured to activate the local alert device of the portable security system when the home security system detects one or more alert conditions in the home.

4. The portable security system of claim 2, wherein the network connection comprises the Internet and/or a cellular network connection.

5. The portable security system of claim 1, wherein the one or more alert conditions in the remote living space comprises one or more of an intrusion into the remote living space, a fire in the remote living space, a presence of smoke in the remote living space, and a presence of carbon monoxide in the remote living space.

6. The portable security system of claim 1, wherein one or more of the sensors, the local alert device, the memory, the communications module, and the controller are all housed by a common housing.

7. The portable security system of claim 1, wherein the memory, the communications module, and the controller are all housed by a common housing, and at least one of the one or more sensors is a satellite sensor that is housed separately.

8. The portable security system of claim 7, wherein one or more of the satellite sensors is a wireless sensor.

9. The portable security system of claim 7, wherein the one or more satellite sensors comprises one or more of a door open detector, a motion sensor, a CO sensor, a smoke sensor, and a sound sensor.

10. The portable security system of claim 1, wherein one or more of the sensors comprises one or more of a camera, a microphone, a motion sensor, a gas sensor, and a proximity sensor.

11. The portable security system of claim 1, wherein the local alert device comprises an audible alarm generator and/or a visual alarm generator.

12. The portable security system of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to cause a message to be sent to a mobile device of a user when one or more of the alert conditions is detected in the remote living space by the one or more sensors.

13. The portable security system of claim 1, further comprising a panic button that is operably coupled to the controller and the communications module such that pressing the panic button causes the communications module to send a panic message to the security system monitoring server and/or to local police authorities.

14. A security system server, comprising:

a memory for storing a plurality of user accounts, each user account including information about a corresponding customer including;

an indicator of a geographical location of a primary building protected by a primary security system;

a network connection to the primary security system that protects the primary building associated with the user account;

at least one of the user accounts also includes information including;

an indicator of a geographical location of a remote living space in a secondary building that is remote from the primary building, wherein the remote living space in the secondary building is protected by a portable secondary security system;

a network connection to the portable secondary security system;

wherein the portable secondary security system is configured to be hand carried by a user to the remote living space in the secondary building and is configured to communicate with the security system server at least in part through the network connection to the portable secondary security system; and

a controller operatively coupled to the memory, the controller configured to receive alert conditions from the primary security systems and the portable secondary security systems that are associated with the plurality of user accounts, and for each alert condition received from the primary security systems, the controller outputting an indication of the alert condition to a user associated with the user account that corresponds to the primary security system that detected the alert condition, and for each alert condition received from the portable secondary security systems, the controller outputting an indication of the alert condition to a user associated with the user account that corresponds to the portable secondary security system that detected the alert condition.

15. The security system server of claim 14, wherein the controller is configured to output the indication of the alert condition to the user associated with the user account that corresponds to the primary security system that detected the alert condition by sending a message to the user'"'"'s mobile device.

16. The security system server of claim 14, wherein the controller is configured to output the indication of the alert condition to the user associated with the user account that corresponds to the portable secondary security system that detected the alert condition by sending a message to the user'"'"'s mobile device.

17. The security system server of claim 14, wherein network connection to the primary security system comprises an Internet and/or cellular connection, and the network connection to the portable secondary security system comprises an Internet and/or cellular connection.

18. The security system server of claim 14, wherein the information about the network connection to the primary security system comprises a first network address, and the information about the network connection to the portable secondary security system comprises a second network address.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the executable program instructs a portable security device, having access to one or more sensors that can detect one or more alert conditions in a space of a secondary building in which the portable security device is located, to perform the following:

monitor the one or more sensors for one or more alert conditions in the space in the secondary building in which the portable security device is located; and

if one or more alert conditions in the space of the secondary building in which the portable security device is located is detected, send an alert message at least in part through an Internet and/or cellular connection to a security system server, the alert message referencing a user account on the security system server that is also associated with a primary security system of a primary building that is located remote from the secondary building.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the alert message comprises a location identifier that identifies a geographic location of the secondary building in which the portable security device is located.