USING FIXED MOBILE CONVERGENCE FEMTOCELLS FOR ALARM REPORTING

• US 20090273462A1
• Filed: 05/01/2008
• Published: 11/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Addy, Kenneth L.
• Application Number:
  US12/113,727
• Publication Number:
  US 20090273462A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/506
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements

Abstract

An alarm reporting system and method for reporting alarms to a central monitoring station via low-power femtocells is presented. An alarm reporting system comprises a plurality of sensors, an alarm reporting module that receives alarm signals from the plurality of sensors, and a logic unit that generates an alarm message related to the alarm signal. The alarm reporting module further comprises a low-power cellular transceiver to transmit the alarm message to the femtocell. The femtocell is connected to a fixed network such as the internet.

Claims

1. ) An alarm reporting system, comprising:

an alarm reporting module; and

a femtocell for receiving data from the alarm reporting module.

2. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 1, further comprising:

a transceiver coupled to the alarm reporting module for transmitting the data to the femtocell.

3. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 2, further comprising:

a power supply unit coupled to the alarm reporting module and to the transceiver to provide power to the alarm reporting module and to the transceiver.

4. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 1, further comprising:

a sensor for transmitting an alert signal; and

a transceiver within the alarm reporting module for receiving the alert signal from the sensor and transmitting an alert message to the femtocell;

wherein the alert message is said data.

5. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 4, wherein the alarm reporting module further comprises a logic unit to analyze the alert signal and correlate it to an event type.

6. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 1, wherein the femtocell is a Home Base Station providing a cellular transceiver with access to a fixed network such as the Internet.

7. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 6, wherein the Home Base Station further comprises a transceiver device and a Radio Network Controller.

8. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 6, wherein said transceiver is coupled to the alarm reporting module.

9. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 8, wherein communication between the transceiver coupled to the alarm reporting module and the femtocell occurs wirelessly via GSM, CDMA, or an equivalent public radio communication system.

10. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 9, wherein the transceiver device coupled to the alarm reporting module transmits an alert message to a Central Monitoring Station via the fixed network.

11. ) An alarm reporting system, comprising:

a sensor that transmits an alert signal corresponding to an event type;

a receiver that receives the alert signal;

a logic unit that generates an alert message corresponding to the alert signal;

a transmitter that transmits the alert message; and

a femtocell that receives the alert message and transmits the alert message to a Central Monitoring Station.

12. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 11, wherein communication between the transmitter within the alarm reporting module and the femtocell occurs wirelessly over one or more of GSM or CDMA channels.

13. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 11, wherein the femtocell communicates with the Central Monitoring Station via a broadband router connected to the Internet.

14. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 11, wherein the sensor transmits the alert signal wirelessly.

15. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 11, wherein the alert message corresponding to the alert signal corresponding to the event type includes all or part of the alert signal, wherein the alert signal comprises a multimedia stream recording the event that triggered the alert signal.

16. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 12, wherein the receiver, logic unit, and transmitter are contained within an alarm reporting module that farther includes a power supply unit that provides power to the alarm reporting module.

17. ) The alarm reporting system of claim 16, wherein the power supply unit further comprises a backup battery, thus becoming an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS).

18. ) A method for sending an alarm message from an alarm reporting module to a Central Monitoring Station on a fixed network, the method comprising:

receiving at an alarm reporting module an alert signal corresponding to an event;

generating an alarm message corresponding to the alert signal;

transmitting the alarm message using a cellular transceiver within the alarm reporting module to a femtocell;

said femtocell being connected to the fixed network via a broadband internet connection; and

transmitting the alarm message using the femtocell to the Central Monitoring Station across the fixed network.

19. ) The method of claim 18, wherein the alarm reporting module and the cellular transceiver are powered by a power supply unit that further comprises a backup battery.