DEVICE FOR TELECOMMUNICATION COMPRISING ALARM DEVICES IN SECURED AREAS

• US 20100039512A1
• Filed: 10/09/2007
• Published: 02/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Netgate Security-Produkte GmbH
• Original Assignee: Netgate Security-Produkte GmbH
• Inventors: Kurz, Peter
• Application Number:
  US12/443,477
• Publication Number:
  US 20100039512A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2818 from a device located outside both the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless eletrical link G08C17/00; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with remote control systems H04M11/007
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/18 using different networks or channels, e.g. using out of band channels cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key distribution involving distinctive intermediate devices or communication paths H04L9/0827; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for authentication using a plurality of channels H04L9/3215
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications

Abstract

A device for telecommunication comprising alarm devices or the like, installed in secured areas (2) such as apartments, vacation or private homes, company buildings, shops, banks, insurances and the like, has a central unit (3), which is associated with an alarm device disposed in a secured area (2) and to which surveillance or sensor units (3) are connected, and an internet portal (7), which is hosted on a server and contacted by the central unit (4) in case warning signals are received from the associated surveillance or sensor units (3). The internet portal allows for communication means (9) to contact a person (1) associated with the respective secured area (2). The internet portal can be accessed by the person (1) with a key or password. In order to allow the person responsible for the secured area (2) to obtain further information regarding the incident reported by the surveillance and sensor unit (3), before initiating emergency or alarm measures, according to the invention the central unit (4) of the alarm device associated with the secured area (2) comprises a hardware key (5) with a CPU having access memory (6), in which a mathematical encryption mechanism is stored and is designed to be not readable. The hardware key (5) can be accessed via the internet portal (7) by separately secured transmission channels. A web server is associated with the hardware key such that optionally further communication means having a browser can be used by a person contacted by the internet portal (7) to gain access to the warning signals of the surveillance- and sensor unit (3) detected in the alarm device associated with the secured area (2) by using the key or password via the internet portal (7).

Claims

1. (canceled)

8. A system for telecommunicating with an alarm system installed in a secure area, such as an apartment, a vacation or private home, an office buildings, a business premises, a bank, an insurance company, etc., comprising

a central unit that is connected to the alarm system provided in the secure area and to monitoring devices or sensors provided in or at the secure area, the alarm system having a hardware key with a CPU with an access memory in which a mathematical encryptor is stored and which cannot be read, the hardware key being contactable via the internet portal through a dedicated secure transmission channel and being assigned to a Web server,

a server connectable to the central unit,

communication means that is assigned to the person responsible for the secure area and that is contacted in the event of warning signals from the monitoring devices or sensors connected to the central unit, the server being contactable by the contacted person responsible for the secure area via a key or password, wherein

the server hosts an internet portal,

the internet portal is contacted by the central unit in the event of warning signals from the monitoring devices or sensors connected to it,

the communication means of the person assigned to the secure area is contacted by the internet portal hosted by the server, and

access can be gained to the warning signals of the monitoring and sensor devices recorded in the central unit of the alarm system assigned to the secure area using the key word or password via the internet portal via a further communications means assigned to the person contacted by the internet portal and provided with a browser.

2. The telecommunication system according to claim 8 wherein video cameras or contacts or sound or motion detectors are provided as monitoring devices or sensors connected to the central unit.

3. The telecommunication system according to claim 8 wherein the further communication means provided with a browser is a PC.

4. The telecommunication system according to claim 8 wherein the connection between the central unit provided with the hardware key and the internet portal or the communication means provided with the browser is a DSL modem.

5. The telecommunication system according to claim 8 wherein a cell phone is the communication means with the internet portal.

6. The telecommunication system according to claim 5 wherein the connection from the internet portal to the communication means of the person contacted can be by UMTS, SMS, or e-mail.

7. The telecommunication system according to claim 8 wherein the connection from the communication means of the person contacted to the internet portal can be by SMS, MMS, e-mail or by an internet connection.