Internet tactical alarm communication system

• US 20040168194A1
• Filed: 12/27/2002
• Published: 08/26/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: John McCaskill Hughes
• Original Assignee: John McCaskill Hughes
• Inventors: Hughes, John M.
• Application Number:
  US10/329,481
• Publication Number:
  US 20040168194A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/105
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19634 Electrical details of the system, e.g. component blocks for carrying out specific functions
• 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 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• 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 21/8146 involving graphical data, e.g. 3D object, 2D graphics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

An Internet tactical alarm communication (ITAC) system includes at least one sensor, at least one video camera, and an ITAC computer delivery unit, wherein the at least one sensor, the at least one video camera, and the ITAC computer delivery unit are communicatively interconnected, and the ITAC system provides real-time data regarding a particular condition.

Claims

1. An Internet tactical alarm communication (ITAC) system comprising:

at least one sensor means for monitoring a predetermined parameter;

at least one video camera means recording imagery data; and

an ITAC computer delivery unit,

wherein said at least one sensor means, said at least one video camera means, and said ITAC computer delivery unit are communicatively interconnected, and said ITAC system provides real-time data regarding a particular condition.

2. The ITAC system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one video camera means is a digital video recorder.

3. The ITAC system according to claim 1, wherein said ITAC computer delivery unit comprises:

a monitor means for providing imagery data;

a memory storage means for storing imagery data; and

a remotely activated computer interface (RACI) device,

wherein said RACI device includes at least one processor and is communicatively interconnected with said monitor and said memory storage device.

4. The ITAC system according to claim 3, wherein said monitor means is a flat screen display.

5. The ITAC system according to claim 3, wherein said memory storage device includes stored therein computer useable program code, said computer useable program code comprising:

first instruction means for securely activating the ITAC computer delivery unit, associated video cameras, and associated sensors;

second instruction means for continuously recording and storing imagery data from each associated video camera for a predetermined period of time in buffer memory means;

third instruction mean for receiving and monitoring a signal from a sensor regarding a particular parameter;

fourth instruction means for processing the received sensor signal and determining whether the processed sensor signal represents an undesirable parameter condition;

fifth instruction means for placing the ITAC system in a tactical mode, stopping the continuous recording of imagery data in the buffer memory means during time when the parameter condition associated with the processed sensor signal remains undesirable, recording and storing imagery data from video cameras associated with the processed sensor signal on predetermined memory storage means;

sixth instruction means for alerting authorized users that alert authorized users the processed sensor signal represents un undesirable parameter condition so they may remotely access ITAC system resources;

seventh instruction means for communicatively providing imagery data regarding associated video cameras if the processed sensor signal represents an undesirable condition to authorized users; and

eighth instruction means for placing the ITAC system in a non-tactical mode when the processed sensor signal represents a desirable condition, initiating continuous recording of imagery data in the buffer memory means while the ITAC system remains in a non-tactical mode.

6. The ITAC system according to claim 5, wherein said computer useable program code further comprises ninth instruction means for securely deactivating the ITAC computer delivery unit by an authorized operator of the ITAC computer delivery unit.

7. An Internet tactical alarm communication (ITAC) method comprising:

securely activating an ITAC computer delivery unit, associated video cameras, and associated sensors;

continuously recording and storing imagery data from each associated video camera for a predetermined period of time in buffer memory means;

receiving and monitoring a signal from a sensor regarding a particular parameter;

processing the received sensor signal and determining whether the processed sensor signal represents an undesirable parameter condition;

placing the ITAC system in a tactical mode, stopping the continuous recording of imagery data in the buffer memory means during time when the parameter condition associated with the processed sensor signal remains undesirable, and recording and storing imagery data from video cameras associated with the processed sensor signal on predetermined memory storage means;

alerting authorized users that alert authorized users the processed sensor signal represents un undesirable parameter condition so they may remotely access ITAC system resources;

communicatively providing imagery data regarding associated video cameras if the processed sensor signal represents an undesirable condition to authorized users; and

placing the ITAC system in a non-tactical mode when the processed sensor signal represents a desirable condition, initiating continuous recording of imagery data in the buffer memory means while the ITAC system remains in a non-tactical mode.

8. The ITAC method according to claim 8, further comprising securely deactivating the ITAC computer delivery unit by an authorized user of the ITAC computer delivery unit.