Method for arming a security system
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1. In a security system comprising one or more sensors, said sensors transmitting RF signals, said RF signals including fault messages and restore messages, and an RF receiver/controller for receiving and processing said fault and restore messages to provide a faulted status or a restored status for each sensor;
- a method of arming said security system comprising the steps of;
a) receiving a request from a user to arm the system,b) determining if a faulted status exists in the receiver/controller, at the time the receiver/controller received the request to arm the system,c) if a faulted status exists at the time the receiver/controller received the request to arm the system, then automatically changing said faulted status to a restored status without requiring the detection of a restore message from a sensor, andd) arming said security system when there are no faulted statuses in the receiver/controller.
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Abstract
A method of arming a security system comprising one or more send-only RF sensor. The method comprises the steps of receiving a request to arm the system from a keypad, determining if a faulted status exists in the receiver/controller, if a faulted status does exist, then changing the faulted status to a restored status, and arming the security system when there are no faulted statuses in the receiver/controller.
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1. In a security system comprising one or more sensors, said sensors transmitting RF signals, said RF signals including fault messages and restore messages, and an RF receiver/controller for receiving and processing said fault and restore messages to provide a faulted status or a restored status for each sensor;
- a method of arming said security system comprising the steps of;
a) receiving a request from a user to arm the system, b) determining if a faulted status exists in the receiver/controller, at the time the receiver/controller received the request to arm the system, c) if a faulted status exists at the time the receiver/controller received the request to arm the system, then automatically changing said faulted status to a restored status without requiring the detection of a restore message from a sensor, and d) arming said security system when there are no faulted statuses in the receiver/controller. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
- a method of arming said security system comprising the steps of;
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9. A security system comprising:
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a) a sensor device comprising; i) sensor means for detecting a fault condition in an area of interest, and ii) means for transmitting an RF signal from said sensor means in response to detecting said fault condition, said RF signal containing a fault message upon fault condition detection, and said RF signal containing a restore message upon detection of cessation of said fault condition, and b) a receiver/controller comprising; i) means for receiving said RF signal, ii) means for processing said RF signal to provide a faulted status in response to a fault message and a restored status in response to a restore message, iii) means for receiving a request from a user to arm the security system, iv) means for determining if a faulted status exists, v) means for automatically changing said faulted status to a restored status when said faulted status exists at the time a request to arm is received, and vi) means for arming said security system when there is no faulted status. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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