IOT ENABLED WIRELESS ONE-GO/ALL-GO PLATFORM SENSOR NETWORK SOLUTIONFOR CONNECTED HOME SECURITY SYSTEMS

• US 20160029346A1
• Filed: 07/22/2014
• Published: 01/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: ESKILDSEN, Kenneth G., SURESH, Sandeep, LAKSHMINARAYAN, Nagaraj Chickmagalur
• Granted Patent: US 9,565,657 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 17/10 Actuation by presence of smoke or gases , e.g. automatic alarm devices for analysing flowing fluid materials by the use of optical means
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/14 Toxic gas alarms G08B21/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/007 Details of data content structure of message packets; data protocols
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/16 in which the time allocation to individual channels within a transmission cycle is variable, e.g. to accommodate varying complexity of signals, to vary number of channels transmitted H04J3/17, H04J3/24 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1845 broadcast or multicast in a specific location, e.g. geocast protocols for adapting network applications to user terminal location H04L67/52; services specially adapted for wireless communication networks making use of the location of users or terminals H04W4/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/30 Resource management for broadcast services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0816 with collision avoidance
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A system including a base station of a security system having a wireless transceiver, a processor of the base station that periodically transmits a beacon under a 6LowPan/loT protocol defining an information transfer super frame having a plurality of time division multiple access (TDMA) slots, a plurality of remotely located devices, each with a sound transducer and a wireless transceiver that exchanges messages with the base station within the TDMA slots of the super frame and a respective processor within each of the plurality of remotely located devices that determines a sound activation pattern and a location of a multicast slot within the super frame from the beacon, detects an activation message within the multicast slot and activates the sounder transducer based upon the location of the multicast slot in accordance with the sound activation pattern.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a base station of a security system having a wireless transceiver;

a processor of the base station that periodically transmits a beacon under a 6LowPan/IoT protocol defining an information transfer super frame having a plurality of time division multiple access (TDMA) slots;

a plurality of remotely located devices, each with a sound transducer and a wireless transceiver that exchanges messages with the base station within the TDMA slots of the super frame; and

a respective processor within each of the plurality of remotely located devices that determines a location of a multicast slot within the super frame and a sound activation pattern from the beacon, detects an activation message within the multicast slot and activates the sounder transducer of the remotely located device based upon the sound activation pattern.

2. The system as in claim 1 wherein at least some of the plurality of remotely located devices further comprise a visual indicator activated in accordance with the sound activation pattern.

3. The system as in claim 1 further comprising a processor of the base station that transmits the activation message and sound activation pattern either in the beacon with a multicast short address or as a 6LowPAN based multicast message within a predetermined slot of the super frame.

4. The system as in claim 1 further comprising the respective processor of each of the plurality of remotely located devices activating the sound transducer synchronously with the sound transducers of each of the other remotely located devices.

5. The system as in claim 1 wherein at some of the plurality of remotely located devices further comprise a respective combustion detector.

6. The system as in claim 5 further comprising a respective processor of each of the at least some remotely located devices that monitors the combustion detector of the remotely located device for indication of a fire and sends a fire alarm message to the base station.

7. The system as in claim 6 further comprising a processor of the base station that detects the fire alarm message and sends the activation message to each of the at least some remotely located devices activating the sound transducer of the device.

8. The system as in claim 7 wherein the combustion detector further comprises one of a smoke detector and a carbon monoxide detector.

9. The system as in claim 8 wherein the sound activation pattern further comprises a first sound activation pattern for the detection of smoke and a second sound activation pattern, different than the first, upon detection of carbon monoxide.

10. The system as in claim 1 further comprising a lamp disposed on each of the plurality of remotely located devices that illuminates an area adjacent the remotely located device in response to receipt of the activation message.

11. A system comprising:

a security system that protects a secured area;

a base station of the security system having a wireless transceiver;

a processor of the base station that periodically transmits a beacon through the wireless transceiver, the beacon providing a time reference for a plurality of time division multiple access (TDMA) slots that together form a repeating super frame under a 6LowPan/IoT protocol;

a plurality of remotely located devices located within the secured area, each with a sound transducer and a wireless transceiver that exchanges messages with the base station through the TDMA slots of the super frame; and

a respective processor within each of the plurality of remotely located devices that determines a multicast slot within the super frame for receipt of sound transducer activation messages from the beacon, detects an activation message including a sound activation pattern within the multicast slot and activates the sounder transducer in accordance with the sound activation pattern.

12. The system as in claim 11 wherein at least some of the plurality of remotely located devices further comprise a respective combustion sensor.

13. The system as in claim 12 wherein the respective combustion sensor further comprises one of a smoke detector and a carbon monoxide (CO) detector.

14. The system as in claim 13 wherein the sound activation pattern further comprises a first sound activation pattern for smoke and a second different sound activation pattern for carbon monoxide.

15. The system as in claim 11 wherein the beacon further comprises a plurality of beacons juxtapositioned within a time slot of the super frame wherein each of the plurality of beacons is based upon an IPv6 address of at least some of the plurality of remotely located devices.

16. The system as in claim 12 further comprising a processor of one of the at least some remotely located devices that monitors the combustion detector for activation and upon detecting activation of the combustion detector sends an alarm message to the base station including an IPv6 address of the one remotely located device.

17. The system as in claim 16 further comprising a processor of the base station that detects the alarm message and sends the activation message to each of the plurality of remotely located devices including a sound activation patter associated with the combustion detector of the one remotely located device via the beacon and multicast slot.

18. A system comprising:

a security system that protects a secured area;

a base station of the security system having a wireless transceiver;

a processor of the base station that periodically transmits a beacon through the wireless transceiver, the beacon providing a time reference for a plurality of time division multiple access (TDMA) slots that together form a repeating super frame under a 6LowPan/IoT protocol;

a remotely located devices located within the secured area having a sound transducer and a wireless transceiver that exchanges messages with the base station through the TDMA slots of the super frame; and

a respective processor within the remotely located device that determines a multicast slot within the super frame from the beacon based upon an IPv6 address of the remotely located device for receipt of sound transducer activation messages, detects an activation message and a sound activation pattern from the multicast slot and activates the sounder transducer in accordance with the sound activation pattern.

19. The system as in claim 18 wherein the remotely located device further comprises a combustion detector.

20. The system as in claim 19 further comprising a processor of the remotely located device that monitors the combustion sensor for an indication of fire and upon detecting a fire sends an alarm message to the base station through one of the TDMA slots of the super frame.