Context-Aware Alarm System
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1. An alarm system for monitoring an environment and generating a contextualized alarm output in response to an alarm event, the alarm system comprising:
- a plurality of sensors to monitor the environment and produce sensor signals representative of a situation associated with the alarm event;
means for extracting contextual information about the situation from the sensor signals;
means for generating a contextualized alarm output as a function of the contextual information; and
communication circuitry for communicating the contextualized alarm output.
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Abstract
An alarm system (20) computes a situation context output (30) as a function of information received from sensors (24a-24n). The alarm system (20) extracts contextual information (la-ln) related to situation (22) of environment (18) and aggregates contextual information (la-ln) using context aggregation (34) to produce situation context output (30).
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1. An alarm system for monitoring an environment and generating a contextualized alarm output in response to an alarm event, the alarm system comprising:
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a plurality of sensors to monitor the environment and produce sensor signals representative of a situation associated with the alarm event; means for extracting contextual information about the situation from the sensor signals; means for generating a contextualized alarm output as a function of the contextual information; and communication circuitry for communicating the contextualized alarm output. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An alarm system for monitoring an environment, the alarm system comprising:
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a plurality of sensors to monitor the environment and generate sensor signals representative of conditions associated with the environment; and a local alarm panel comprising; inputs for communicating with the plurality of sensors to receive the sensor signals from the sensors; a data processor in communication with the inputs to receive the sensors signals and produce a contextualized alarm output as a function of the sensor signals; and communication circuitry in communication with the data processor for communicating the contextualized alarm output. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for enhancing performance of an alarm system including a plurality of sensors deployed in an environment, the method comprising:
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monitoring the environment with the plurality of sensors and producing sensor signals representative of conditions associated with the environment; detecting an alarm event based on at least one of the sensor signals; extracting contextual information from the sensor signals relating to conditions associated with the alarm event; and producing a contextualized alarm output as a function of the contextual information. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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