Home and home occupant remote monitoring and communication system

• US 20060158336A1
• Filed: 01/03/2006
• Published: 07/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Illah Reza Nourbakhsh, Ofer Matan
• Original Assignee: Illah Reza Nourbakhsh, Ofer Matan
• Inventors: Matan, Ofer, Nourbakhsh, Illah Reza
• Application Number:
  US11/323,754
• Publication Number:
  US 20060158336A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.100
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0423 detecting deviation from an expected pattern of behaviour or schedule
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0476 Cameras to detect unsafe condition, e.g. video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0492 Sensor dual technology, i.e. two or more technologies collaborate to extract unsafe condition, e.g. video tracking and RFID tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence

Abstract

A system for home and home occupant monitoring that requires near-zero set-up time and set-up expertise, and provides for both authentication, security and semantically meaningful interpretation of home activity.

Claims

1. A system for home and home occupant remote monitoring, the system comprising:

a centralized, heterogeneous in-home network including at least one in-home central server and one or more sensing devices;

at least one in-home device assigned the role of communication relay;

at least one outside-home private server and data repository;

communication between the in-home network and the outside-home private server and data repository via one or more communication relays;

communication between the outside-home private server and data repository and the public network, enabling authenticated access across the public network to in-home central server date, in-home sensing device data and outside-home private server data.

2. The system as described in claim 1, wherein in-home communication between the in-home central server and in-home sensing devices employs radio frequency communications protocols.

3. The system as described in claim 1, wherein communication between in-home communication relays and the outside-home private server employs cellular data protocols.

4. The system as described in claim 1, wherein addition of new in-home sensing devices requires authentication and the use of unique identifiers to ensure secure dynamic networking.

5. The system as described in claim 4, wherein authentication is performed spatially by sensing the position of a new in-home sensing device relative to the in-home central server.

6. The system as described in claim 4, wherein authentication is performed temporally by the user identifying the unique identifier of the sensing device in near simultaneity with powering on the new sensing device.

7. The system as described in claim 1, wherein persistent memory storage at the in-home central server retains network parameter and device identifier information to enable power-loss recovery.

8. The system as described in claim 1, wherein in-home data caching enables limited-bandwidth communication between the in-home network and the outside-home network.

9. The system as described in claim 1, wherein the outside-home server and data repository provides interpretations and statistical analyses of raw in-home sensing data, said interpretation and analyses being performed both by the in-home server and by the outside-home server.

10. The system as described in claim 1, wherein outside-home server access to internal parameters of the in-home network enables remote technical support.