DOOR NOTIFICATION SYSTEM

• US 20110012730A1
• Filed: 07/22/2008
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: EnOcean GmbH
• Original Assignee: EnOcean GmbH
• Inventors: Barnett, Thomas Alan, Finch, John Gerard, Iott, Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US12/667,949
• Publication Number:
  US 20110012730A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.14
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 11/0081 for transmitting energy, e.g. electrical cable routing
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission

Abstract

In one example, a door notification system includes a wireless batteryless switch associated with a door and a receiver coupled to a lighting load and to a sound-emitting load. The receiver is operable to provide a door notification in response to a signal from the wireless batteryless switch. The door notification includes at least one of a flash of the lighting load or a sound from the sound-emitting load. In one example, a door notification system includes a wireless batteryless switch associated with a door and a portable receiver that is operable to plug into an electrical outlet and that includes a built-in sound-emitting load. The portable receiver is operable to activate the sound-emitting load to produce an audio signal in response to a signal from the wireless batteryless switch.

Claims

1. A door notification system comprising:

a wireless batteryless switch associated with a door; and

a receiver coupled to a lighting load, a sound-emitting load, or both, wherein the receiver is operable to provide a door notification in response to a signal from the wireless batteryless switch, and wherein the door notification includes a flash of the lighting load, a sound from the sound-emitting load, or both.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the door notification includes a flash of the lighting load and a sound from the sound-emitting load.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless batteryless switch corresponds to a door knocker and is operable to harvest energy from a movement of the door knocker.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless batteryless switch corresponds to a doorbell button and is operable to harvest energy from an actuation of the doorbell button.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless batteryless switch corresponds to a doorbell button and is operable to harvest solar energy.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless batteryless switch is to be mounted on an exterior of a building and the receiver is to be mounted within an interior of the building.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the sound-emitting load corresponds to a speaker.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the sound-emitting load corresponds to a chime.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the receiver is operable to play a first sound in response to a signal from the wireless batteryless switch, and wherein the receiver is operable to play a second sound in response to a signal from a second wireless batteryless switch.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the door corresponds to at least one door selected from the group consisting of a child door, a pet door, a basement door, an elevator roof door, an emergency exit door, and an elderly person door.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the receiver is programmable to provide a first door notification in response to a first click pattern of the wireless batteryless switch, and to provide a second door notification in response to a second click pattern of the wireless batteryless switch.

12. A door notification system comprising:

a wireless batteryless switch associated with a door; and

a portable receiver that is operable to plug into an electrical outlet and that includes a built-in sound-emitting load, wherein the portable receiver is operable to activate the sound-emitting load to produce an audio signal in response to a signal from the wireless batteryless switch.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the wireless batteryless switch corresponds to a door knocker and is operable to harvest energy from a movement of the door knocker.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the wireless batteryless switch corresponds to a doorbell button and is operable to harvest energy from an actuation of the doorbell button.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the wireless batteryless switch corresponds to a doorbell button and is operable to harvest solar energy.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the wireless batteryless switch is mounted on an exterior of a building and the electrical outlet is within an interior of the building.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the sound-emitting load corresponds to a speaker.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein the sound-emitting load corresponds to a chime.

19. The system of claim 12, wherein the portable receiver is operable to play a first sound in response to a signal from the wireless batteryless switch, and wherein the portable receiver is operable to play a second sound in response to a signal from a second wireless batteryless switch.

20. The system of claim 12, wherein the door corresponds to at least one door selected from the group consisting of a child door, a pet door, a basement door, an elevator roof door, an emergency exit door, and an elderly person door.