Community security system using intelligent information sharing

• US 10,380,877 B2
• Filed: 07/14/2015
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Outsmart Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Overview Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Davies, Christopher Paul, Rhodes, Scott Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Fan, Hongmin
• Application Number:
  US15/329,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20170243472A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,491 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/196 using television cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1963 Arrangements allowing camera rotation to change view, e.g. pivoting camera, pan-tilt and zoom [PTZ]
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19656 Network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19669 Event triggers storage or change of storage policy
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19671 Addition of non-video data, i.e. metadata, to video stream
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19697 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/00 Identifying, scaring or incapacitating burglars, thieves or intruders, e.g. by explosives
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/005 Alarm destination chosen according to a hierarchy of available destinations, e.g. if hospital does not answer send to police station
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/009 Signalling of the alarm condition to a substation whose identity is signalled to a central station, e.g. relaying alarm signals in order to extend communication range
• 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: G08B 27/00 Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central station to a plurality of substations
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/003 Signalling to neighbouring houses
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/18 Prevention or correction of operating errors G08B29/02, G08B29/12 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/185 Signal analysis techniques for reducing or preventing false alarms or for enhancing the reliability of the system
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 : Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/69 : Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/90 : Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 : Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 : for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 : Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

The present invention relates to a community security system capable of monitoring multiple, generally adjacent, consecutive private security areas to confirm human activity and engage sensory alerts. The community security system includes at least two private security areas having the capability of being networked together to enable information sharing. Each private security area is monitored by a private security system and contains one or more detection devices for monitoring and detecting activity occurring within the boundaries of the private security area. Information detected by detection devices within the private security areas can then communicate with other detection devices within the private security area or with the community security system to confirm activity, track activity across adjacent boundaries, engage sensory alerts and notify community members or authorities, as needed.

Claims

1. A community security system for monitoring a residential community consisting of two or more privately owned lots having dwelling thereon, where each privately owned lot within the residential community has lot boundaries that define a security area and where each security area has group members permitted to be in each security area without restriction, the security system comprising:

at least two detection devices for detecting human movement affixed at predetermined locations in a first security area;

at least two detection devices for detecting human movement affixed at predetermined locations in a second security area where the first security area and second security area are positioned adjacent to one another and where the at least two detection devices on each of the first and second, security areas are positioned outside of the dwelling on the privately owned lot bounded by the first and second security areas;

the at least two detection devices in the first security area are in network communication with each other to create a first security system within the first security area that independently monitors the first security area and that can be controlled by one or more of the group members permitted to be in the first security area;

the at least two detection devices in the second security area are in network communication with each other to create a second security system within the second security area that independently monitors the second security area and that can be controlled by one or more of the group members permitted to be in the second security area; and

where at least one of the at least two detection devices in the second security area is in network communication with at least one of the at least two detection devices in the first security area to create a community security system for monitoring human movement across the privately owned lots within the residential community when human movement is detected in either the first or second security area in the residential community and for notifying the group members in each of the first and second security, areas in the residential community of human movement across the privately owned lots within the residential community; and

where the community security system includes a server, where the at least two detection devices in both the first and second security areas and at least one personal mobile device of at least one group member in each of the first and second security areas is in network communication with the server and where the server is capable of alerting the at least one mobile device of the at least one group member in each of the first and second security areas of human movement in either or both the first and second security areas in the residential community when human movement is detected by one of the at least two detection devices located in either or both the first and second security areas; and

where the at least two detection devices in the first and second security area have geo-location tags and where the server stores the associated geo-location tag of each of the at least two detection devices to register the location of any movement detected by either of the at least two detection devices; and

where the server can activate any of the at least two detection devices in either the first or second security areas to track detected human movement through the residential community.

2. The community security system of claim 1 where the first security system is capable of being automatically disarmed by a geo-location of one or more group members'"'"' mobile devices being within the first private security area.

3. The community security system of claim 1 where the first security, system is capable of being automatically aimed by a geo-location of one or more group members'"'"' mobile devices being outside the first security area.

4. The community security system of claim 1 further includes a camera in network communication with the server where the server is able to control the movement of the camera in response to movement detected by one of the at least two detection devices in either the first or second security areas.

5. A community security system managed by a server for monitoring a collective number of predetermined detection zones each having at least one dwelling positioned thereon and each having certain group members permitted to be in each predetermined detection zone without restriction, the security system comprising:

at least two detection devices for detecting human movement affixed in a predetermined location within each of the collective number of predetermined detection zones, the at least two detection devices being in network communication with each other and where the detection devices have geo-location tags and where the server stores the associated geo-location tags of each of the at least two detection devices to register the location of any movement detected by any of the at least two detection devices in each of the collective number of predetermined detection zones;

at least two detection devices for detecting human movement affixed at predetermined locations in a second security area where the first security area and second security area are positioned adjacent to one another and where the at least two detection devices on each of the first and second security areas are positioned outside of the dwelling on the privately owned lot bounded by the first and second security areas detection zone;

the at least two detection devices in each of the first and second security zone,

the server being in network communication with at least one of the at least two detection devices in each predetermined determined detection zones and with at least one personal mobile devices of a group member permitted to be in each predetermined detection zone;

at least one of the at least two detection devices in each predetermined detection zone generating an alert notification when unauthorized human movement is detected and communicating the alert notification to the server; and

the server communicating any received alert notifications from the at least one of the at least two detection devices in each predetermined detection zone to at least one personal mobile device of a group member based upon the physical location of the personal mobile devices of the group members at the time unauthorized human movement is detected to alert at least one group member of movement detected by any one of the at least two detection devices in each predetermined detection zone.

6. The community security system of claim 5, where each predetermined zone has more than one monitored area within each predetermined zones and where each monitored area has at least two detection devices for detecting human movement and where the detection devices in each zone are able to share detecting information with each other via the server.

7. The community security system of claim 5 further including a camera in network communication with the server and where the server is able to control the camera in response to alert notifications received from the at least one of the at least two detection devices generating an alert notification.

8. The community security system of claim 5 further including a camera in network communication with the server, where the camera has associated geo-coordinates stored on the server and where the server controls the camera view in response to alert notifications received from at least one of the detection devices in the predetermined detection zones.

9. The community security system of claim 5 where the mobile devices of the group members are in network communication with the server and where the community security system includes sensory alerts that may be activated by the mobile devices of the group members in response to the activation of a panic response on the mobile devices of the group members.

10. A community security system for monitoring a residential community consisting of two or more privately owned lots having dwelling thereon, where each privately owned lot within the residential community has lot boundaries that define a security area and where each security area has group members permitted to be in each security area without restriction, the security system comprising:

at least two detection devices for detecting human movement affixed at predetermined locations in a first security area;

at least two detection devices for detecting human movement affixed at predetermined locations in a second security area where the first security area and second security area are positioned adjacent to one another and share at least one common lot boundary;

where the at least two detection devices on each of the first and second security areas are positioned outside of the dwelling on the privately owned lot bounded by the first and second security areas;

the at least two detection devices in the first security area are in network communication with each other to create a first security system within the first security area that independently monitors the first security area and that can be controlled by one or more of the group members permitted to be in the first security area;

the at least two detection devices in the second security area are in network communication with each other to create a second security system within the second security area that independently monitors the second security area and that can be controlled by one or more of the group members permitted to be in the second security area, such that the first security area and second security area are private security areas each monitored by individual personal security systems, which includes the at least two detection devices in each of the first and second security areas;

a server in network communication with each individual personal security system, where the server facilitates the exchange of information between the individual personal security systems about intruders such that a user of one individual personal security system can be alerted of intruders detected on another individual personal security system;

where at least one of the at least two detection devices in the second security area is in network communication with at least one of the at least two detection devices in the first security area to create a community security system for monitoring human movement across the privately owned lots within the residential community when human movement is detected in either the first or second security area in the residential community and for notifying the group members in each of the first and second security areas in the residential community of human movement across the privately owned lots within the residential community; and

where at least one personal mobile device of at least one group member in each of the first, and second security areas is in network communication with the server and where the server is capable of alerting the at least one mobile device of the at least one group member in each of the first and second security areas of human movement in either or both the first and second security areas in the residential community when human movement is detected by one of the at least two detection devices located in either or both the first and second security areas; and

where the at least two detection devices in the first and second security area have geo-location tags and where the server stores the associated geo-location tag of each of the at least two detection devices to register the location of any movement detected by either of the at least two detection devices; and

where the server can activate any of the at least two detection devices in either the first or second security areas to track detected human, movement through the residential community.

11. The community security system of claim 10 where the users of the individual personal security systems of the private security areas interface with the server via an application accessible via the user'"'"'s personal mobile device, whereby the user is able to receive notifications of intruder activities occurring in the community security system via the user'"'"'s mobile device, and where the notifications received by the mobile device relates to activities occurring, across all private security areas within the community security system.

12. The community security system of claim 10 where the security system includes a plurality of private security areas each monitored by individual personal security systems and where the server provides information to one or more individual personal security systems about security breaches occurring in other private security areas upon request of the one or more individual personal security systems.

13. The community security system of claim 10 where at least one individual personal security system includes a camera and where the server can control the positioning of the camera based upon information received by any individual personal security system in the community security system that detects an intruder.

14. The community security system of claim 10 where at least one individual personal security system includes an alarm and where the server can trigger the alarm based upon information received by any individual personal security system in the community security system that detects an intruder.