System and method for interactive security

• US 10,410,504 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2016
• Issued: 09/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Tabe, Joseph Akwo
• Primary Examiner(s): Khan, Aftab N.
• Application Number:
  US15/233,562
• Publication Number:
  US 20160351043A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,126 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19697 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 19/005 combined burglary and fire alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/22 responsive to presence or absence of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/085 using central distribution transmission lines
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/21 Server components or server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23 Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4131 home appliance, e.g. lighting, air conditioning system, metering devices home automation data switching networks exchanging configuration information on appliance services H04L12/2807
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42201 biosensors, e.g. heat sensor for presence detection, EEG sensors or any limb activity sensors worn by the user input arrangements for interaction with the human body based on nervous system activity detection G06F3/015
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/814 comprising emergency warnings arrangements specially adapted for emergency or urgency in broadcast systems H04H20/59; arrangements for providing alarms, notifications, alerts to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A home security system includes interactive sensors and a controller in a controlled environment, such as a smart home environment. A central communication device is coupled, wired or wirelessly, directly or indirectly, to the interactive sensors and the controller. The interactive sensors include at least one heartbeat sensor to detect the presence of one or more human bodies and at least one emergency condition sensor to detect the presence of an emergency condition. In some implementations, the controller may determine the number of occupants based on the heartbeats of multiple human bodies detected by the heartbeat sensor. In some implementations, the number of occupants may be determined by the heartbeats detected by the heartbeat sensor in conjunction with one or more other types of sensors, such as a body heat sensor.

Claims

1. An interactive security system for occupancy detection, the system comprising:

a plurality of electronic sensors positioned at one or more predetermined locations in a controlled environment to collect sensor data, the controlled environment being a building, a room, or designated area within the room, the controlled environment being a space within which monitoring or security of a human occupant is desired, the plurality of electronic sensors comprising a heartbeat sensor configured with an interactive detector, the heartbeat sensor configured to detect either a presence or an absence of a human heartbeat in the controlled environment, the human heartbeat being of the human occupant for which monitoring or security is desired, the interactive detector configured to detect a presence of an emergency condition in the controlled environment, the emergency condition being different from the presence or the absence of the human heartbeat; and

a controller communicatively coupled to the heartbeat sensor and the emergency condition sensor, the controller configured to;

retrieve an environment profile of the controlled environment, the environment profile including position and identification information of devices located in the controlled environment and a listing of devices having links with the controller;

generate an alarm based on information in the environment profile, the presence of the emergency condition, and either the presence or the absence of the human heartbeat in the controlled environment; and

transmit the alarm to a remote command center external to the controlled environment via a communication network.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the emergency condition sensor comprises a sensor selected from the group consisting of:

a smoke sensor, a fire sensor, a temperature sensor, a break-through sensor, a pressure sensor, a body heat sensor, a sound sensor, and a voice sensor.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the controlled environment comprises a plurality of locations, each of the plurality of locations comprising at least one of the plurality of electronic sensors.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the human heartbeat comprises a plurality of human heartbeats.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to determine a number of human occupants based at least in part on a detection of the presence of the human heartbeats.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the controller is further configured to determine the number of the human occupants based at least in part on a detection by at least one of the plurality of electronic sensors other than the heartbeat sensor.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising an archival and retrieval unit coupled to the controller, the archival and retrieval unit configured to receive, store, and recall the sensor data.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising the communication network, the communication network configured to enable communication among at least one of the plurality of electronic sensors, the controller, and the archival and retrieval unit.

9. A method of emergency condition detection in a controlled environment, the method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, sensor data for the controlled environment from a plurality of electronic sensors associated with the controlled environment, the sensor data including heartbeat sensor data and emergency condition sensor data from a heartbeat sensor configured with an interactive detector, the controlled environment being a building, a room, or designated area within the room, the controlled environment being a space within which monitoring or security of a human occupant is desired;

processing, by the processor, the heartbeat sensor data to determine either a presence or an absence of a human heartbeat in the controlled environment, the human heartbeat being of the human occupant for which monitoring or security is desired;

processing, by the processor, the emergency condition sensor data to determine whether an emergency condition exists in the controlled environment, the emergency condition being different from the presence or the absence of the human heartbeat;

retrieving, by the processor, an environment profile of the controlled environment, the environment profile including position and identification information of devices located in the controlled environment and a listing of devices having links with the processor;

generating, by the processor, an alarm based on information in the environment profile, a determination that the emergency condition exists, and a determination of either the presence or the absence of the human heartbeat in the controlled environment; and

transmitting, from the processor, the alarm to a remote command center external to the controlled environment via a communication network.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the emergency condition sensor comprises a sensor selected from the group consisting of:

a smoke sensor, a fire sensor, a temperature sensor, a break-through sensor, a pressure sensor, a body heat sensor, a sound sensor, and a voice sensor.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the controlled environment comprises a plurality of locations, each of the plurality of locations comprising at least one of the plurality of electronic sensors.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the human heartbeat comprises a plurality of human heartbeats.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising determining, by the processor, a number of human occupants based at least in part on the heartbeat sensor data.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the determining the number of the human occupants is further based at least in part on a detection by at least one of the plurality of electronic sensors other than the heartbeat sensor.

15. An interactive security media device for monitoring and occupancy detection, the media device comprising:

a command interface configured to receive a command from a control module, the control module being communicatively coupled to the interactive security media device;

a communication interface configured to receive sensor data from a plurality of electronic sensors positioned at one or more predetermined locations in a controlled environment, the controlled environment being a building, a room, or designated area within the room, the controlled environment being a space within which monitoring or security of a human occupant is desired, the plurality of electronic sensors including a heartbeat sensor configured with an interactive detector, the sensor data including heartbeat sensor data and emergency condition sensor data;

a display configured to display at least one of media content or the sensor data;

a network interface configured to communicate with a remote command center external to the controlled environment;

a processor communicatively coupled to the command interface, the control module, the communication interface, the display, and the network interface, the processor configured to;

process the heartbeat sensor data to determine either a presence or an absence of a human heartbeat in the controlled environment, the human heartbeat being of the human occupant for which monitoring or security is desired; and

process the emergency condition sensor data to determine whether an emergency condition exists in the controlled environment, the emergency condition being different from the presence or the absence of the human heartbeat;

retrieve an environment profile of the controlled environment, the environment profile including position and identification information of devices located in the controlled environment and a listing of devices having links with the processor;

generate an alarm based on information in the environment profile, a determination that the emergency condition exists, and a determination of either the presence or the absence of the human heartbeat in the controlled environment; and

transmit the alarm to a remote command center external to the controlled environment via a communication network.

16. The interactive security media device of claim 15, wherein the human comprises a plurality of human heartbeats.

17. The interactive security media device of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to determine a number of human occupants based at least in part on the heartbeat sensor data.

18. The interactive security media device of claim 17, wherein the processor is further configured to determine the number of human occupants based at least in part on a detection by at least one of the plurality of electronic sensors other than the heartbeat sensor.