System and method for aiding responses to an event detected by a monitoring system

• US 10,514,264 B2
• Filed: 06/08/2018
• Issued: 12/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alarm.com Inc. (Alarm.com Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Alarm.com Inc. (Alarm.com Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Correnti, Matthew Daniel, Alpert, Charles Richard, Roberts, Aaron Lee
• Primary Examiner(s): Antonucci, Anne M
• Application Number:
  US16/004,150
• Publication Number:
  US 20180356241A1
• Time in Patent Office: 564 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/206 specially adapted for indoor navigation
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3461 Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types, segments such as motorways, toll roads, ferries
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3626 Details of the output of route guidance instructions traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3647 Guidance involving output of stored or live camera images or video streams
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3694 Output thereof on a road map
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 17/06 Electric actuation of the alarm, e.g. using a thermally-operated switch
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 7/062 indicating emergency exits
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 7/066 guiding along a path, e.g. evacuation path lighting strip
• 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: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 for indoor environments, e.g. buildings
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 for collecting sensor information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device are disclosed for generating a map for use in safely navigating hazards detected at a property. One method may include actions of receiving a request for a safe path to a property occupant that is located inside the property, obtaining a floor plan of the property, obtaining real-time sensor data generated by one or more sensors installed at the property that includes (i) sensor data indicative of a hazard at the property and (ii) a current location of the property occupant, generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor data and (ii) the obtained floor plan, determining a safe path between an exit of the property and the current location of the property occupant, and providing, for output on a user device, the map of the property that visually indicates the safe path.

Claims

1. A monitoring system including one or more processors and one or more storage devices that include instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more processors, to cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving a request for a safe path to a property occupant that is located inside the property;

responsive to the request for a safe path to the property occupant that is located inside the property, obtaining a floor plan of the property;

obtaining real-time sensor data generated by one or more sensors installed at the property that includes (i) sensor data indicative of one or more hazards at the property and (ii) a current location of the property occupant;

generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor data and (ii) the obtained floor plan;

determining, based on the generated map of the property, a safe path between an exit of the property and the current location of the property occupant, wherein the safe path is determined based on determining proximity between the safe path and the one or more hazards at the property; and

providing, for output on a user device, the map of the property that visually indicates the safe path.

2. The monitoring system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

receiving (i) second sensor data generated by one or more sensors installed at the property or (ii) image data captured by one or more cameras installed at the property, wherein the second sensor data is indicative of a potential event at the property; and

transmitting a notification to the user device where the user device is associated with a first responder that notifies the first responder of the occurrence of the potential event.

3. The monitoring system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

receiving (i) second sensor data generated by one or more sensors installed at a different property than the property or (ii) camera data generated by one or more cameras installed at the different property than the property; and

transmitting a notification to the user device where the user device is associated with a first responder that notifies the first responder of the occurrence of a potential event.

4. The monitoring system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

obtaining image data captured by one or more cameras installed at the property that includes (i) image data depicting one or more hazards at the property or (ii) image data depicting the current location of a property occupant;

wherein generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor data and (ii) the obtained floor plan comprises;

generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor data, (ii) the obtained image data, and (iii) the obtained floor plan; and

wherein determining, based on the generated map of the property, the safe path between an exit of the property and the current location of the property occupant comprises;

determining, based on the generated map of the property that is based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor data, (ii) the obtained image data, and (iii) the obtained floor plan, the safe path between an exit of the property and the current location of the property occupant.

5. The monitoring system of claim 4, wherein generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor data, (ii) the obtained image data, and (iii) the obtained floor plan comprises:

determining, based on the obtained real-time sensor data from a motion sensor or based on the image data captured by one or more cameras, that a human is located in a particular location of the property; and

projecting a graphical marker representing the human onto a portion of the map that corresponds to the location of the motion sensor or the location of the camera.

6. The monitoring system of claim 1, wherein generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor and (ii) the obtained floor plan comprises:

projecting the obtained real-time sensor data onto the obtained floor plan.

7. The monitoring system of claim 1, wherein generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor and (ii) the obtained floor plan comprises:

determining, based on the obtained real-time sensor data, that a particular event is occurring at a particular location inside the property; and

projecting a graphical marker representing the particular event onto a portion of the map that corresponds to the location of a sensor that generated the obtained real-time sensor data.

8. The monitoring system of claim 1, wherein generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor and (ii) the obtained floor plan comprises:

determining, based on the obtained real-time sensor data from a temperature sensor, that a fire is occurring in a particular location of the property; and

projecting a graphical marker representing a fire onto a portion of the map that corresponds to the location of the temperature sensor.

9. The monitoring system of claim 1, wherein generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor and (ii) the obtained floor plan comprises:

accessing a monitoring profile that is (i) stored in a database accessible to the monitoring system and (ii) that enables the user device to interface with one or more connected-home controls; and

projecting a graphical marker representing at least one connected-home control onto a portion of the map that is proximate to the location of the at least one connected-home control.

10. The monitoring system of claim 1, wherein determining, based on the generated map of the property, a safe path between an exit of the property and the current location of the property occupant comprises:

determining, for each of a plurality of paths that extend from the current location of the property occupant to an exit of the property, a path score; and

selecting, a particular path of the plurality of paths, based on the determined path score.

11. The monitoring system of claim 1, wherein the path score is based on one or more factors that include (i) a number of hazards detected along the path, (ii) a type of hazard detected upon each path, or (iii) a magnitude of the hazard.

12. The monitoring system of claim 1, wherein generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor data and (ii) the obtained floor plan comprises:

generating the map to indicate a hazard at a location on the map that corresponds to a location of a sensor of the sensors that detected the hazard, wherein determining, based on the generated map of the property, a safe path between an exit of the property and the current location of the property occupant comprises;

selecting the safe path from among multiple paths from exits of the property to the current location of the property occupant based on the location on the map that indicates the hazard.

13. A method for generating a map for use in navigating hazards detected at a property by a monitoring system, the method comprising:

receiving a request for a safe path to a property occupant that is located inside the property;

responsive to the request for a safe path to the property occupant that is located inside the property, obtaining a floor plan of the property;

obtaining real-time sensor data generated by one or more sensors installed at the property that includes (i) sensor data indicative of one or more hazards at the property and (ii) a current location of the property occupant;

generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor data and (ii) the obtained floor plan;

determining, based on the generated map of the property, a safe path between an exit of the property and the current location of the property occupant, wherein the safe path is determined based on determining proximity between the safe path and the one or more hazards at the property; and

providing, for output on a user device, the map of the property that visually indicates the safe path.

14. The method of claim 13, the method further comprising:

obtaining image data captured by one or more cameras installed at the property that includes (i) image data depicting one or more hazards at the property or (ii) image data depicting the current location of a property occupant;

wherein generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor data and (ii) the obtained floor plan comprises;

generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor data, (ii) the obtained image data, and (iii) the obtained floor plan; and

wherein determining, based on the generated map of the property, the safe path between an exit of the property and the current location of the property occupant comprises;

determining, based on the generated map of the property that is based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor data, (ii) the obtained image data, and (iii) the obtained floor plan, the safe path between an exit of the property and the current location of the property occupant.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor data, (ii) the obtained image data, and (iii) the obtained floor plan comprises:

determining, based on the obtained real-time sensor data from a motion sensor or based on the image data captured by one or more cameras, that a human is located in a particular location of the property; and

projecting a graphical marker representing the human onto a portion of the map that corresponds to the location of the motion sensor or the location of the camera.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor and (ii) the obtained floor plan comprises:

projecting the obtained real-time sensor data onto the obtained floor plan.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor and (ii) the obtained floor plan comprises:

determining, based on the obtained real-time sensor data, that a particular event is occurring at a particular location inside the property; and

projecting a graphical marker representing the particular event onto a portion of the map that corresponds to the location of a sensor that generated the obtained real-time sensor data.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor and (ii) the obtained floor plan comprises:

determining, based on the obtained real-time sensor data from a temperature sensor, that a fire is occurring in a particular location of the property; and

projecting a graphical marker representing a fire onto a portion of the map that corresponds to the location of the temperature sensor.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor and (ii) the obtained floor plan comprises:

accessing a monitoring profile that is (i) stored in a database accessible to the monitoring system and (ii) that enables the user device to interface with one or more connected-home controls; and

projecting a graphical marker representing at least one connected-home control onto a portion of the map that is proximate to the location of the at least one connected-home control.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request for a safe path to a property occupant that is located inside the property;

responsive to the request for a safe path to the property occupant that is located inside the property, obtaining a floor plan of the property;

obtaining real-time sensor data generated by one or more sensors installed at the property that includes (i) sensor data indicative of one or more hazards at the property and (ii) a current location of the property occupant;

generating a map of the property based on (i) the obtained real-time sensor data and (ii) the obtained floor plan;

determining, based on the generated map of the property, a safe path between an exit of the property and the current location of the property occupant, wherein the safe path is determined based on determining proximity between the safe path and the one or more hazards at the property; and

providing, for output on a user device, the map of the property that visually indicates the safe path.