REMOTE ALERT MESSAGING DISPLAY AND CONFIRMATION

• US 20150029022A1
• Filed: 04/03/2013
• Published: 01/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: UTC Fire & Security Corporation (Raytheon Technologies Corporation d/b/a RTX)
• Original Assignee: UTC Fire & Security Americas Corporation, Inc. (Carrier Global Corporation)
• Inventors: Stebbins, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US14/384,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20150029022A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/517
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/10 responsive to calamitous events, e.g. tornados or earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/00 Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems

Abstract

In some aspects of the present application, a security device is disclosed that is operable to communicate with one or more on-premise sensors and one or more off-premise sensors/event generators. The device can comprise a control module that can comprise one or more receiving modules operable to receive one or more signals from one or more on-premise sensors and one or more signals from one or more off-premise sensors/event generators; a processor coupled with a memory module having stored therein computer-readable instructions operable to cause the processor to analyze the one or more signals from the one or more on-premise sensors and the one or more signals from the one or more off-premise sensors/event generators to determine whether to cause an audio, a visual or both an audio and visual alarm to be initiated; and a user Interface, coupled with the processor, operable to receive user input and display information indicative of the alarm.

Claims

1. A security device operable to communicate with one or more on-premise sensors and one or more off-premise sensors and/or event generators, the device comprising:

a control module comprising;

one or more receiving modules operable to receive one or more signals from one or more on-premise sensors and one or more signals from one or more off-premise sensors and/or event generators;

a processor coupled with a memory module having stored therein computer-readable instructions operable to cause the processor to analyze the one or more signals from the one or more on-premise sensors and the one or more signals from the one or more off-premise sensors and/or event generators to determine whether to cause an audio, a visual or both an audio and visual alarm to be initiated; and

a user interface, coupled with the processor, operable to receive user input and

display information indicative of the alarm.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the one or more signals from the one or more on-premise sensors comprise information from one or more active sensors, one or more passive sensors, or both one or more active and one or more passive sensors.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the one or more signals from the one or more off-premise sensors and/or event generators comprise information received from one or more remote data processing and/or receiving modules.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein the one or more signals from the one or more off-premise sensors and/or event generators comprises information selected from the group consisting of:

information related to national, regional, and/or local weather conditions, information related to natural disasters and/or terrorism, information related to missing, lost, and/or persons.

5. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a transmitting module operable to transmit the information indicative to the alarms over one or more wired and/or wireless technologies to a mobile communication device.

6. The device according to claim 5, wherein the transmitting module is operable to transmit one or more text messages to the mobile communication device.

7. A method for communicating with one or more on-premise sensors and one or more off-premise sensors and/or event generators using a security device comprising a control module, the method comprising:

receiving one or more signals from one or more on-premise sensors and one or

more signals from one or more off-premise sensor and/or event generators by a receiving module;

analyzing, with a processor, the one or more signals from the one or more on-premise sensors and the one or more signals from the one or more off-premise sensors and/or event generators;

determining whether to cause an audio, a visual or both an audio and visual alarm to be initiated; and

displaying, with a user interface, information indicative of the alarm.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the one or more signals from the one or more on-premise sensors comprise information from one or more active sensors, one or more passive sensors, or both one or more active and one or more passive sensors.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the one or more signals from the one or more off-premise sensors and/or event generators comprise information received from one or more remote data processing and/or receiving modules.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the one or more signals from the one or more off-premise sensors and/or event generators comprises information selected from the group consisting of information related to national, regional, and/or local weather conditions, information related to natural disasters and/or terrorism, information related to missing, lost, and/or persons.

11. The method according to claim 7, further comprising transmitting the information indicative of the alarms over one or more wired and/or wireless technologies to a mobile communication device.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising transmitting the information as a text message to the mobile communication device.