Residential security using game platform

• US 10,269,224 B2
• Filed: 09/25/2014
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics LLC (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Sharma, Amit Kumar, Pokale, Yatishkumar Ravinath, Parthasarathy, B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bousono, Orlando
• Application Number:
  US14/496,050
• Publication Number:
  US 20160093176A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,671 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/00 Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/001 Alarm cancelling procedures or alarm forwarding decisions, e.g. based on absence of alarm confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/00 Visible signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems, remote indication of seats occupied
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/025 Door telephones adapted for television H04N7/186
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems

Abstract

A security system includes sensor devices, a security panel that receives signals from the sensor devices and that executes algorithms to determine the presence of an alarm that is sent to a game console coupled to a monitor. The game console includes a processor and memory, a graphics processor, and a network interface that receives data from the security panel and causes a message regarding the alarm condition to be displayed on the monitor.

Claims

1. A security system comprising:

a plurality of sensor devices that detect various security-related conditions in a premises, with the plurality of sensor devices configured to produce sensor signals;

a security system control panel coupled to the plurality of sensor devices, the security system control panel configured to receive the produced sensor signals and execute one or more security-related algorithms to determine presence of one or more security-related alarm conditions based on the received sensor signals and configured to produce an alarm condition message;

a monitor device; and

a game console coupled to the security system control panel and to the monitor, with the game console including a processor and memory, a graphics processor, and a network interface, with the game console configured to;

generate a monitor interface including entertainment content

cause the monitor device to display the monitor interface;

receive the produced alarm condition message from the security system control panel;

generate a message regarding the one or more security-related alarm conditions and update the monitor interface by overlaying the message on at least a portion of the entertainment content of the monitor interface;

cause the monitor device to display the updated monitor interface; and

receive a confirmation message from a user input device, which confirmation message indicates that the message regarding the one or more alarm conditions was observed being displayed on the monitor.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the security system control panel comprises:

a processor and memory that are configured to determine from the sensor signals received by the security system control panel from the plurality of sensor devices the presence of the alarm condition.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the security system control panel is further configured to:

receive the sensor signals from the plurality of sensor devices;

continually process the sensor signals to detect the presence of the alarm condition; and

upon detection of the alarm condition,

analyze other received sensor signals against the detected alarm condition to determine the validity of the detected alarm condition.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the security system control panel is further configured to:

send the produced alarm condition message as a notification to a central monitoring station; and

send the produced alarm condition message to the game console, with the produced alarm condition message sent to the game console including information that identifies the alarm condition by the location in the premises where the alarm condition was detected based on a sensor device of the plurality of sensor devices that triggered the alarm condition.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the game console is further configured to:

receive video data from the graphics processor, and

display the received video data from the video system on the monitor.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the game console is further configured to:

determine if the game console has other registered game consoles; and

push critical alarm notifications to those other registered game consoles.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein when the confirmation message is not received from the game console, the game console is further configured to:

determine if the game console has other registered game consoles, and

push critical alarm notifications to those other registered game consoles.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the message regarding the one or more security-related alarm conditions is a window comprising a text message describing a security event.

9. A method comprising:

receiving sensor data provided from a security system that comprises a plurality of sensor devices that detect various conditions in a premises and a security system control panel coupled to the plurality of sensor devices;

executing by the security system control panel one or more algorithms to determine the presence of an alarm condition from the sensor data and generate an alarm condition message based on detecting a determined alarm condition; and

sending by the security system control panel, the generated alarm condition message to a game console that is coupled to a monitor, the game console including a processor and memory, and a graphics processor, and interfaces to a network to configure the game console to display the generated alarm condition message on the monitor overlaying the generated alarm condition message on at least a portion of entertainment content of the monitor; and

receiving by the game console, a confirmation message from a user input device, which confirmation message indicates that the generated alarm condition message was observed on the monitor.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

determining by the security system control panel from the data received by the security system control panel from the plurality of sensor devices the presence of the alarm condition.

11. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

receiving by the security system control panel the sensor data from the plurality of sensor devices;

continually processing the sensor data to detect the presence of the alarm condition; and

upon detecting the alarm condition,

analyzing other received sensor data against the detected alarm condition to determine the validity of the detected alarm condition.

12. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

sending the generated alarm condition message as a notification to a central monitoring station; and

sending the generated alarm condition message to the game console, with the generated alarm condition message sent to the game console including information that identifies the alarm condition by the location in the premises where the alarm condition was detected based on a sensor device of the plurality of sensor devices that triggered the alarm condition.

13. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

determining if the game console has other registered game consoles; and

pushing critical alarm notifications to those other registered game consoles.

14. The method of claim 9, the method further comprises determining whether the confirmation message pertaining to the generated alarm condition message has not been received by the game console;

determining by the game console if the game console has other registered game consoles; and

pushing critical alarm notifications to those other registered game consoles.

15. A system comprising:

a security system including;

a plurality of sensor devices that detect one or more security related conditions in a premises and produce corresponding output data;

a security system control panel configured to;

receive the output data from the plurality of sensor devices;

execute one or more security algorithms to detect presence of an alarm condition based on processing of the output data from the plurality of sensor devices; and

generate a detection message that includes an identification of the detected alarm condition;

a monitor display device; and

a game console coupled to the security system control panel and to the monitor display device, the game console comprising;

a processor device;

a memory coupled to the processor;

a graphics coprocessor;

a network interface; and

a computer storage device that stores instructions to configure the game console to;

generate a monitor interface including entertainment content

cause the monitor device to display the monitor interface;

receive the detection message from the security system control panel;

generate a message regarding the one or more security-related alarm conditions and update the monitor interface by overlaying the message on at least a portion of the entertainment content of the monitor interface;

cause the monitor device to display the updated monitor interface; and

receive a confirmation message from a user input device, which confirmation message indicates that the display message was observed being displayed on the monitor.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the security system control panel is further configured to:

send the detection message as a notification to a central monitoring station.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the game console is continuously connected video cameras and is further configured to:

filter false alarms reported by the security system by an application on the game console analyzing the alarm condition by analyzing video information from a video camera to verify the alarm condition.

18. The system of claim 15 wherein the game console is a first game console and is further configured to:

determine if the first game console received the confirming message;

determine whether the detection message is a critical alarm notification; and

when the detection message is a critical alarm notification,

push critical alarm notification to other game consoles that are registered with the first game console.

19. The system of claim 15 wherein the game console is further configured to:

determine if the game console has registered game consoles;

determine whether the detection message is a critical alarm notification; and

when the detection message is a critical alarm notification,

push critical alarm notifications to other game consoles that are registered with the first game console.

20. The system of claim 15 wherein the display message from the game console identifies the alarm condition by the location in the premises where the alarm condition was detected based on a sensor device of plurality of sensor devices that triggered the alarm condition.