REST and RSS Enabled Access Control Panel

• US 20120092153A1
• Filed: 10/14/2010
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: R, Aneesh Kumar
• Granted Patent: US 8,519,842 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/531
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/00 Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

A method and apparatus are provided for operating a security system. The method includes providing a security system having at least one sensor, coupling a detected state of the at least one sensor to a web server, the web server publishing the detected state and a remotely located user subscribing to receive the detected state of the at least one sensor via the publication by the web server.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing a security system having at least one sensor;

coupling a detected state of the at least one sensor to a web server;

the web server publishing the detected state; and

a remotely located user subscribing to receive the detected state of the at least one sensor via the publication by the web server.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising operating the web site under a representational state transfer (REST) format.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising publishing the state under a rich site summary (RSS) format.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing an alarm processor within the alarm panel that monitors the at least one sensor and transferring any state changes to the web server.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising the alarm processor writing the state changes into a web page of the web server.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising the web server detecting the changes to the web page and publishing the change to the user.

7. Apparatus comprising:

a security system having at least one sensor;

a web server operating under a REST format;

a plurality of http documents, each saved in a respective file identified by a URL associated with the web server;

an alarm processor that couples a detected state of the at least one sensor into a least one of the http documents of the web server wherein the web server publishes the detected state; and

a remotely located user that receives the detected state of the at least one sensor via publication by the web server.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein at least one of the plurality of http documents receives commands from the remotely located user.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the security system executes the received commands from the remotely located user.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 further comprising publishing the state under a rich site summary (RSS) format.

11. The apparatus of claim 7 further comprising providing a publication processor within the alarm panel that monitors an http document of the plurality of http documents for changes and publishes the document in response to the change.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 further comprising the alarm processor writing the state changes into a web page of the web server.

13. Apparatus comprising:

a security system having at least one sensor that detects entry into a secured area;

a web server operating under a REST format;

at least one http document containing a state of the at least one sensor that is published by the web server in response to a change in the state of the sensor; and

a remotely located user that receives the detected state of the at least one sensor via publication by the web server.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 further comprising an alarm processor that couples a detected state of the at least one sensor into the http documents of the web server.

15. The apparatus of claim 13 further comprising a plurality of http documents where at least one of the plurality of http documents receives commands from the remotely located user.

16. The apparatus of claim 13 wherein the security system executes the received commands from the remotely located user.

17. The apparatus of claim 13 further comprising publishing the state under a rich site summary (RSS) format.

18. The apparatus of claim 13 further comprising providing a publication processor within the alarm panel that monitors the http document for event changes and publishes the document in response to the change.

19. The apparatus of claim 17 further comprising the alarm processor writing the state changes into a web page of the web server.

20. The apparatus of claim 17 further comprising the remotely located user downloads a state of the at least one sensor via a predetermined URL.