Method of programming security control panels for door entry device compatibility

• US 7,142,111 B2
• Filed: 10/04/2004
• Issued: 11/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Chen, Hong Jyh, Eskildsen, Kenneth G
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Daniel
• Assistant Examiner(s): BUGG, GEORGE A
• Application Number:
  US10/958,066
• Publication Number:
  US 20050046564A1
• Time in Patent Office: 785 Days
• Field of Search: 540/506
• US Class Current: 340/542
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2045/0695 Actuation of a lock triggering an alarm system, e.g. an alarm system of a building
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 45/06 Electric alarm locks E05B45/005 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/06 by tampering with fastening
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/08 by opening, e.g. of door, of window, of drawer, of shutter, of curtain, of blind
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements

Abstract

A method of operating a control panel in a security system that includes a door entry security device in a housing suitable for mounting within a recess of a doorjamb or door of a premises. The control panel is programmed to register a system arm/disarm device and a door closure device, both with the same identification number, such that the control panel recognizes that identification number to be associated with a door entry security device. In the even that the control panel receives, while in an armed state, an alarm signal from a security device in the security system and then receives a system disarm message, then the control panel determines if the system disarm message was received from a system arm/disarm device that has been registered as a door entry security device. If the control panel determines that the system disarm message was received from a system arm/disarm device that has been registered as a door entry security device, then the system disarm message is ignored; and if the control panel determines that the system disarm message was not received from a system arm/disarm device that has been registered as a door entry security device, then the system disarm message is followed.

Claims

1. A method of operating a security system comprising the steps of:

a. programming a control panel in the security system to accept messages from a system arm/disarm device associated with an identification number;

b. programming the control panel to accept messages from a door closure device associated with the identification number; and

c. the control panel registering the identification number as being associated with a door entry security device.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

d. the control panel receiving, while in an armed state, an alarm signal from a security device in the security system;

e. a system arm/disarm device transmitting a system disarm message to the control panel; and

f. the control panel determining if the system disarm message was received from a system arm/disarm device that has been registered as a door entry security device.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising the step of:

g. the control panel ignoring the system disarm message from the system arm/disarm device if the control panel determines that the system disarm message was received from a system arm/disarm device that has been registered as a door entry security device.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein there are a plurality of door entry security devices registered at the control panel, each of the door entry security devices being associated with a different identification number, and wherein the control panel

determines if the system disarm message was received from any of the system arm/disarm devices that have been registered as a door entry security device;

and

ignores the system disarm message from the system arm/disarm device if it determines that the system disarm message was received from any of the system arm/disarm devices that have been registered as a door entry security device.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the control panel follows the system disarm message from the system arm/disarm device if it determines that the system disarm message was not received from any of the system arm/disarm devices that have been registered as a door entry security device.

6. A security system comprising:

a control panel, and

a door entry security device comprising;

a housing;

a lock position detecting switch within the housing, adapted to detect the position of a lock mounted on a door associated with a doorjamb as being either locked or unlocked with respect to the doorjamb;

a door position detecting switch within the housing, adapted to detect the position of the door as being either open or closed with respect to the doorjamb and to generate a door status signal that indicates whether the door has been detected as being open or closed;

processing circuitry adapted to generate a security system disarm signal when

the lock position detecting switch indicates that the position of the lock has transitioned from a locked state to an unlocked state,

the door status signal indicates that the door is closed at the time that a predefined time period has elapsed since the position of the lock is sensed to have transitioned from a locked state to an unlocked state; and

the door status signal indicates that the door has been opened after the predefined time period has elapsed; and

a data transmitter for sending the security system disarm signal to the control panel; and

wherein

the control panel comprises processing circuitry adapted to;

accept messages from a system arm/disarm device associated with an identification number;

accept messages from a door closure device associated with the identification number;

register the identification number as being associated with a door entry security device;

receive, while in an armed state, an alarm signal from a security device in the security system;

receive a system disarm message from a system arm/disarm device in the security system;

determine if the system disarm message was received from a system arm/disarm device that has been registered as a door entry security device; and

ignore the system disarm message if the system disarm message was received from a system arm/disarm device that has been registered as a door entry security device.

7. The security system of claim 6 further comprising a plurality of door entry security devices, each of the door entry security devices being associated with a different identification number, and wherein the processing circuitry of the control panel is further adapted to

determine if the system disarm message was received from any of the system arm/disarm devices that have been registered as a door entry security device;

and

ignore the system disarm message from the system arm/disarm device if it determines that the system disarm message was received from any of the system arm/disarm devices that have been registered as a door entry security device.

8. The security system of claim 7 wherein the control panel follows the system disarm message from the system arm/disarm device if it determines that the system disarm message was not received from any of the system arm/disarm devices that have been registered as a door entry security device.