HOME, OFFICE SECURITY, SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM USING MICRO MOBILE DRONES AND IP CAMERAS

• US 20170019644A1
• Filed: 07/13/2015
• Published: 01/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: K, Vijaya Krishna V, Swain, Bikram, Khot, Bharat Balaso, Oh, Eric
• Granted Patent: US 9,819,911 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 39/02 characterised by special use
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 39/024 of the remote controlled vehicle type, i.e. RPV
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 47/08 Arrangements of cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 10/10 Rotorcrafts
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 10/13 Flying platforms
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2101/00 UAVs specially adapted for particular uses or applications
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2101/30 for imaging, photography or videography
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2101/31 for surveillance
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/00 Control of position, course, altitude or attitude of land, water, air or space vehicles, e.g. using automatic pilots drive control systems specially adapted for autonomous road vehicles B60W60/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/17 taken from planes or by drones
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19621 Portable camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1965 the vehicle being an aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19697 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/69 Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/91 Television signal processing therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

A system including a security system that protects a secured geographic area including at least a building, a wireless helicopter drone, a camera carried by the drone and a processor of the security system that controls a geographic location of the drone based upon threats detected within the secured area and that records video via the camera from the controlled location.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a security system that protects a secured geographic area including at least a building;

a wireless helicopter drone;

a camera carried by the drone; and

a processor of the security system that controls a geographic location of the drone based upon threats detected within the secured area and that records video via the camera from the controlled location.

2. The system as in claim 1 further comprising a positioning system carried by the drone.

3. The system as in claim 1 wherein the positioning system further comprises a GPS device.

4. The system as in claim 1 wherein the controlled geographic location further comprises a predetermined patrol route through the secured area.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the controlled geographic location further one or more predetermined routes through the secured area.

6. The system as in claim 5 wherein the one or more predetermined routes further comprises a hallway through the secured area.

7. The system as in claim 1 further comprising one or more threat sensors within the secured area.

8. The system as in claim 7 wherein the threat sensors further comprises one or more of fire sensors, intrusion sensors and toxic gas detectors.

9. The system as in claim 8 wherein the controlled geographic location further comprises an area proximate an activated sensor.

10. The system as in claim 9 further comprising a processor that detects activation of the at least one threat sensor, determines a location of the drone and automatically routes the drone to a location of the activated sensor.

11. A system comprising:

a security system that protects a secured geographic area;

a plurality of sensors of the security system including at least one sensor that detects intruders entering the secured area;

a wireless helicopter drone;

a camera carried by the drone; and

a processor of the security system that detects activation of one of the plurality of sensors, that controls a geographic location of the drone within the secured area based upon the activated sensor and that records video via the camera from a location of the activated sensor.

12. The system as in claim 11 wherein the plurality of sensors further comprise one or more of fire sensors, smoke detectors and toxic gas sensors.

13. The system as in claim 11 further comprising one or more maps of the secured area saved in memory that guides the drone to the activated sensor.

14. The system as in claim 13 wherein the map further comprises at least one defined pathway to the activated sensor.

15. The system as in claim 13 wherein the defined pathway further comprises a hallway.

16. The system as in claim 13 wherein the processor that controls a geographic location of the drone further comprising a user input that receives control instructions from a human user.

17. The system as in claim 13 further comprising a WiFi or RF6 wireless interface that couples the drone to the security system.

18. The system as in claim 13 wherein the controlled geographic location further comprises a predetermined patrol route through the secured area.

19. A system comprising:

a security system that protects a secured geographic area;

a plurality of sensors of the security system including at least one sensor that detects intruders entering the secured area;

a wireless helicopter drone;

a camera carried by the drone;

a processor of the security system that detects activation of one of the plurality of sensors, that automatically controls a geographic location of the drone based upon the activated sensor and that records video via the camera proximate the activated sensor; and

a joystick of the security system that provides at least some instructions for control of the drone or camera.

20. The system as in claim 19 wherein the joystick further comprises a processor that controls one or more of a pan, tilt and zoom of the camera.