Systems and methods for providing a graphical user interface indicating intruder threat levels for a building

• US 10,459,593 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Carrier Corporation (Carrier Global Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Carrier Corporation (Carrier Global Corporation)
• Inventors: Tiwari, Ankit, Mukherjee, Kushal, Villaverde, Berta Carballido, Alberola, Rodolfo De Paz, Lakamraju, Vijaya Ramaraju, Mathew, George A., Sahai, Tuhin
• Primary Examiner(s): Lieu, Julie B
• Application Number:
  US15/560,411
• Publication Number:
  US 20180067593A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,315 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/00 Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/04 by breaking of glass
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/22 Electrical actuation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/18 Prevention or correction of operating errors G08B29/02, G08B29/12 take precedence

Abstract

A computer system is provided that generates a Graphical User Interface indicating one or more intruder threat levels for a building. The computer system includes a processor, which upon execution of stored instructions is configured to access a building floor plan having one or more entry and exit points and to access an intruder threat level associated with each of the one or more entry and exit points; to perform threat modeling to determine intruder threat levels at a plurality of locations within the building, contingent upon the building floor plan and the intruder threat level associated with the one or more building entry and exit points; and to provide a GUI on a display indicating, relative to the building floor plan, the determined intruder threat level within the building, at the plurality of points within the building and at the one or more entry and exit points.

Claims

1. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface (GUI) indicating one or more intruder threat levels for a building, comprising:

a memory configured to store instructions;

a processor disposed in communication with said memory, wherein said processor upon execution of the instructions is configured to;

access a building floor plan for the building having one or more building entry and exit points;

access an intruder threat level associated with each of the one or more building entry and exit points;

perform threat modeling to determine intruder threat levels at a plurality of locations within the building, contingent upon the building floor plan and the intruder threat level associated with the one or more building entry and exit points;

provide a GUI on a display indicating, relative to the building floor plan, the determined intruder threat level within the building at the plurality of points within the building and at the one or more building entry and exit points; and

determine a location for positioning a device contingent upon the intruder threat levels indicated on the GUI and a coverage region of the device.

2. A computer system as recited in claim 1, wherein providing the GUI on a display indicating the determined threat levels includes a building level threat visualization.

3. A computer system as recited in claim 1, wherein providing the GUI on a display indicating the determined threat levels includes a room level threat visualization which includes visual indicators that show different probabilities of threats for a room and their locations relative to the building floor plan.

4. A computer system as recited in claim 3, wherein providing the GUI on a display indicating the determined threat levels includes a floor level threat visualization which includes visual indicators that show at least one of an aggregation of room-level threat visualizations arranged on a floor-level of the building in accordance with the building floor plan, and relative probabilities of threats for different rooms of the floor-level of the building relative to the building floor plan.

5. A computer system as recited in claim 1, wherein providing the GUI on a display indicating the determined threat levels includes a threat visualization for the perimeter of the building which includes visual indicators that show different probabilities of threats along the perimeter and the location of each of the threats along the perimeter relative to the building floor plan.

6. A computer system as recited in claim 1, wherein providing the GUI on a display indicating the determined threat levels includes a heat map with visual indicators of threat levels at the plurality of points within the building.

7. A computer system as recited in claim 1, wherein the determined threat levels includes consideration of structured data regarding a neighborhood safety level associated with the building.

8. A computer system as recited in claim 7, wherein the neighborhood safety level is contingent upon accessed data indicative of a neighborhood crime rate and offender population ratio associated with the building.

9. A computer system as recited in claim 1, wherein the determined threat levels includes consideration of structured data regarding a building risk level associated with the building.

10. A computer system as recited in claim 9, wherein the building risk level is contingent upon accessed data indicative of a break-in likelihood and break-in impact associated with the building.

11. A computer system as recited in claim 9, wherein the building risk level is an estimation of the relative vulnerability of at least one of different zones and rooms, wherein the different rooms are connected to a given zone of the building.

12. A computer system as recited in claim 11, wherein the estimation of the relative vulnerability of the different zones is a function of break-in likelihood of the certain entry points and rooms associated with a given zone of the building.

13. A computer system as recited in claim 11, wherein the break-in likelihood of the certain entry points is a function of a level of the building floor.

14. A computer system as recited in claim 1, wherein the determined threat levels includes consideration of structured data regarding a building threat model associated with the building.

15. A computer system as recited in claim 14, wherein the building threat model includes utilizing probabilistic modeling to track a likelihood of intruder movement from a certain room to other rooms in the building so as to generate a probability distribution for a likelihood of intruder movement within the building.

16. A computer system as recited in claim 1, wherein the determined threat levels includes consideration of structured data regarding a room threat model associated with the building.

17. A computer system as recited in claim 16, wherein the room threat model includes utilizing probabilistic modeling to track a likelihood of intruder movement from certain entry points to exits points of the building so as to generate a probability distribution for a likelihood of intruder movement within a room of the building.

18. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface (GUI) indicating one or more intruder threat levels for a building, comprising:

a memory configured to store instructions;

a processor disposed in communication with said memory, wherein said processor upon execution of the instructions is configured to;

access a building floor plan for the building having one or more building entry and exit points;

access an intruder threat level associated with each of the one or more building entry and exit points;

perform threat modeling to determine intruder threat levels at a plurality of locations within the building, contingent upon the building floor plan and the intruder threat level associated with the one or more building entry and exit points; and

provide a GUI on a display indicating, relative to the building floor plan, the determined intruder threat level within the building at the plurality of points within the building and at the one or more building entry and exit points,

wherein the determined threat levels includes consideration of structured data regarding a building risk level associated with the building,

the estimation of the relative vulnerability of the different zones is a function of break-in likelihood of the certain entry points and rooms associated with a given zone of the building,

the determined threat levels includes consideration of structured data regarding a room threat model associated with the building, and

the break-in likelihood of the certain entry points is a function of a type of wall, window or door provided at each entry point.

19. A computer system as recited in claim 18, wherein the building floor plan is semantically rich, and the type of wall, window or door provided at each entry point is determined by processing the semantically rich building floor plan or a captured image of the building and mapping characteristics of the semantically rich building floor plan or the captured image to a computer database.

20. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface (GUI) indicating one or more intruder threat levels for a building, comprising:

a memory configured to store instructions;

a processor disposed in communication with said memory, wherein said processor upon execution of the instructions is configured to;

access a building floor plan for the building having one or more building entry and exit points;

access an intruder threat level associated with each of the one or more building entry and exit points;

perform threat modeling to determine intruder threat levels at a plurality of locations within the building, contingent upon the building floor plan and the intruder threat level associated with the one or more building entry and exit points; and

provide a GUI on a display indicating, relative to the building floor plan, the determined intruder threat level within the building at the plurality of points within the building and at the one or more building entry and exit points,

wherein the determined threat levels includes consideration of structured data regarding a room threat model associated with the building, and

the room threat model includes an estimation regarding how an intruder breaks into a room of the building.

21. A computer system as recited in claim 20, wherein the estimation regarding how an intruder breaks into a room of the building includes modeling each perimeter door, perimeter window and perimeter wall section in the building room as an entry point of the building and modeling each of the interior doors or interior openings of the room as an exit point for the room.

22. A computer system as recited in claim 20, wherein said processor upon execution of the instructions is further configured to determine a location for positioning a device contingent upon the intruder threat levels indicated on the GUI and a coverage region of the device.

23. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface (GUI) indicating one or more intruder threat levels for a building, comprising:

a memory configured to store instructions;

for generating a Graphical User Interface (GUI) indicating one or more intruder threat levels for a building, comprising;

a memory configured to store instructions;

a processor disposed in communication with said memory, wherein said processor upon execution of the instructions is configured to;

access a building floor plan for the building having one or more building entry and exit points;

access an intruder threat level associated with each of the one or more building entry and exit points;

perform threat modeling to determine intruder threat levels at a plurality of locations within the building, contingent upon the building floor plan and the intruder threat level associated with the one or more building entry and exit points; and

provide a GUI on a display indicating, relative to the building floor plan, the determined intruder threat level within the building at the plurality of points within the building and at the one or more building entry and exit points,

wherein the building threat model includes utilizing probabilistic modeling to track a likelihood of intruder movement from a certain room to other rooms in the building so as to generate a probability distribution for a likelihood of intruder movement within the building,

the determined threat levels includes consideration of structured data regarding a building threat model associated with the building, and

the likelihood of intruder movement from the certain room to the other rooms of the building is a function of the certain room'"'"'s connectivity with the other rooms and the importance of the other rooms.

24. A computer system as recited in claim 23, wherein the importance of a room is accessed and/or determined by a name or a function associated with the room.

25. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface (GUI) indicating one or more intruder threat levels for a building, comprising:

a memory configured to store instructions;

a processor disposed in communication with said memory, wherein said processor upon execution of the instructions is configured to;

access a floor plan for the building having one or more building entry and exit points;

determine an intruder threat level associated with each of the one or more building entry and exit points contingent upon accessed structured data;

perform probabilistic modeling utilizing the determined intruder threat level associated with the one or more building entry and exit points to model movement of intruders from certain building entry points to certain building exit points and to generate a probability distribution of intruder threat from the certain building entry points to the certain building exit points;

provide a GUI on a display indicating, relative to the building floor plan, one or more intruder threat levels for the building utilizing the generated probabilistic model of intruder threat distribution from the certain building entry points to the certain building exit points; and

determine a location for positioning a device contingent upon the intruder threat levels indicated on the GUI and a coverage region of the device.

26. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 25, wherein performing probabilistic modeling includes consideration of crime structured data regarding a neighborhood the building is associated with.

27. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 26, wherein consideration of the crime structured data includes utilizing the building'"'"'s location information to retrieve current and historical crime rates for the neighborhood.

28. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 25, wherein performing probabilistic modeling includes consideration of structured data regarding an Offender Population Ratio associated with a specified area surrounding the building.

29. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 25, wherein performing probabilistic modeling includes consideration of structured data regarding criminal activity associated with a specified area surrounding the building.

30. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 29, wherein a determined geographic location for the building is utilized to determine the building type.

31. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 25, wherein performing probabilistic modeling includes consideration of structured data regarding a building type for the building.

32. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 25, wherein performing probabilistic modeling includes consideration and analysis of a satellite image of the building.

33. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 32, wherein the satellite image is analyzed to identify roads adjacent the building.

34. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 32, wherein the satellite image is analyzed to identify traffic volume on the identified roads.

35. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 32, wherein the satellite view is analyzed to determine proximity of the building to other buildings.

36. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 32, wherein the satellite image is analyzed to identify visibility of one or more building entry points from a travelled road.

37. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 32, wherein the satellite image is analyzed to identify accessibility of one or more building entry points from an external region adjacent the building.

38. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 32, wherein performing probabilistic modeling includes consideration of determined vulnerability of the one or more entry points to an intruder break-in relative to the other one or more building entry points.

39. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface as recited in claim 32, wherein performing probabilistic modeling includes consideration of a determined protection level for a given zone of the building wherein the protection level is based on the likelihood of one or more occupants and/or valuables being located in the given zone.

40. A computer system for generating a Graphical User Interface (GUI) indicating one or more intruder threat levels for a building, comprising:

a memory configured to store instructions;

a processor disposed in communication with said memory, wherein said processor upon execution of the instructions is configured to;

access a floor plan for the building having one or more building entry and exit points;

access an intruder threat level associated with each of the one or more building entry and exit points;

perform threat modeling to determine intruder threat levels at a plurality of locations within the building, contingent upon the building floor plan, and threat levels associated with the one or more building entry and exit points, wherein the threat modeling includes consideration of structured data regarding;

a neighborhood safety level, a building risk level, a building threat model and a room threat model;

provide a GUI on a display indicating, relative to the building floor plan, the determined intruder threat levels at the plurality of locations within the building and at the one or more building entry and exit points; and

determine a location for positioning a device contingent upon the intruder threat levels indicated on the GUI and a coverage region of the device.