Wearable Technology Based Apparatus and Method for Accelerated Enrollment of Parallel Wireless Sensors Into Their Own Network

• US 20160192040A1
• Filed: 12/31/2014
• Published: 06/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: SURESH, Sandeep, BEEMA, Vishnu
• Granted Patent: US 9,942,628 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/40 using a wireless architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

A method and apparatus, the method includes a security system transmitting a beacon, a portable wireless setup device in a geographic location proximate a wireless access point of the security system reading at least a unique identifier of the security system, relocating the setup device to a geographic location proximate one of the plurality of wireless sensors and activating the one wireless sensor, the activated sensor reading the unique identifier of the security system from the setup device and the activated sensor automatically registering with the security system through the access point based upon the unique identifier read from the portable setup device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

a security system transmitting a beacon through a wireless access point located within a secured area, the security system having a plurality of wireless sensors to detect threats within the secured area;

providing a portable wireless setup device in a geographic location proximate the wireless access point;

the setup device reading at least a unique identifier of the security system from the beacon received through the access point;

relocating the setup device to a geographic location proximate one of the plurality of wireless sensors and activating the one wireless sensor;

the activated sensor reading the unique identifier of the security system from the setup device; and

the activated sensor automatically registering with the security system through the access point based upon the unique identifier read from the portable setup device.

2. The method as in claim 1 wherein the beacon read by the setup device from the security system further comprises a channel number used by the plurality of sensors for registering with the security system.

3. The method as in claim 1 wherein the unique identifier further comprises a PAN-ID and MAC-ID of the security system.

4. The method as in claim 1 further comprising the setup device transmitting a low power beacon similar to the beacon otherwise transmitted by the security system through the wireless access point.

5. The method as in claim 4 further comprising a nearby wireless sensor of the plurality of wireless sensors preferentially detecting the beacon from the setup device and saving the unique identifier from the setup device in a memory of the wireless sensor.

6. The method as in claim 1 further comprising each of the plurality of sensors scanning a predetermined frequency spectrum for a beacon from the wireless access point of the security system.

7. An apparatus comprising:

a security system that transmits a beacon within a secured geographic area, the security system having a plurality of wireless sensors to detect threats within the secured area;

a portable wireless setup device located in the secured area that reads a unique identifier of the security system from the beacon and retransmits a low-power beacon containing the unique identifier; and

a sensor of the plurality of sensors that reads a unique identifier of the security system from the low-power beacon of the setup device and automatically registers with the security system through the access point based upon the unique identifier read from the portable setup device.

8. The apparatus as in claim 7 wherein the security system further comprises a wireless access point located within the secured area operating under an IEEE802.15 protocol.

9. The apparatus as in claim 7 wherein the setup device further comprises a smartphone.

10. The apparatus as in claim 8 wherein the smartphone further comprises a dongle that operates under an IEEE802.15 protocol.

11. The apparatus as in claim 8 further comprising a programmed processor of the setup device that detects the access point based upon a link quality identifier and saves the unique identifier in a memory of the setup device.

12. The method as in claim 11 wherein unique identifier read by the setup device from the security system further comprises a channel number used by the plurality of sensors for registering with the security system.

13. The method as in claim 11 wherein the unique identifier further comprises a PAN-ID and MAC-ID of the security system.

14. The method as in claim 7 further comprising a programmed processor within each of the plurality of wireless sensors that preferentially detects the low-power beacon from the setup device and saves the unique identifier from the setup device in a memory of the wireless sensor.

15. The method as in claim 7 further comprising each of the plurality of sensors scanning a predetermined frequency spectrum for a beacon from the wireless access point of the security system.

16. An apparatus comprising:

a security system having a plurality of wireless sensors to detect threats within the secured area;

a transceiver coupled to a control panel of the security system that transmits a beacon within a secured geographic area;

a portable wireless setup device located in the secured area that is carried between the transceiver of the security system and each of the plurality of wireless sensors, that reads a unique identifier of the security system from the beacon of the control panel and retransmits a low-power beacon containing the unique identifier for the benefit of each of the plurality of wireless sensors; and

a programmed processor within each of the plurality of wireless sensors that reads a unique identifier of the security system from the low-power beacon of the setup device and automatically registers the wireless sensor with the security system through the transceiver of the control panel based upon the unique identifier read from the portable setup device.

17. The apparatus as in claim 16 wherein the transceiver of control panel of the security system further comprises a wireless access point located within the secured area operating under an IEEE802.15 protocol.

18. The apparatus as in claim 16 wherein the unique identifier further comprises a predetermined channel number, a PAN-ID and a MAC-ID.

19. The method as in claim 18 further comprising a programmed processor within each of the plurality of wireless sensors that preferentially detects the low-power beacon from the setup device and saves the channel number, PAN-ID and MAC-ID from the setup device in a memory of the wireless sensor.

20. The method as in claim 19 further comprising a programmed processor within each of the plurality of wireless sensors that registers the wireless sensor with the security system using the saved channel number, PAN-ID and MAC-ID.