System and method of reporting alert events in a security system

• US 7,724,131 B2
• Filed: 04/18/2008
• Issued: 05/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Chen, Hong-Jyh
• Primary Examiner(s): TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER
• Application Number:
  US12/106,004
• Publication Number:
  US 20090261967A1
• Time in Patent Office: 767 Days
• Field of Search: 340/506, 340/541, 340/539.1, 340/825.36, 340/825.49
• US Class Current: 340/506
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/006 Alarm destination chosen according to type of event, e.g. in case of fire phone the fire service, in case of medical emergency phone the ambulance

Abstract

A system and method for reporting alert events to a terminal device of a user of the security system. In one aspect, a security device of the system generates data of an image or a video clip indicative of an alert event in a detection zone of the security system and further generates a message including an indicium associated with the data. A security control panel of the system receives the message including an indicium associated with the data, identifies an address associated with the terminal device, and sends an instruction message including the indicium and the address to the security device. Upon receiving the instruction message, the security device generates an alert message including the data based on the indicium, and sends the alert message to the address of the user device.

Claims

1. A security system for reporting alert events to a terminal device of a user of the security system, comprising:

a security device configured to generate data in response to an occurrence of an alert event in a detection zone of the security system and generate a message including an indicium associated with the data; and

a security control panel configured to receive the message including an indicium associated with the data, identify an address associated with the terminal device based on the message, and send an instruction message including the indicium and the address to the security device,

wherein the security device generates an alert message including the data based on the indicium, and sends the alert message to the address of the terminal device.

2. The security device of claim 1, wherein the security device comprises an IP camera configured to generate data of an image or a video clip corresponding to the event.

3. The security device of claim 1, wherein the security control panel comprises an interface allowing a third party to add text to the instruction message, the text further added to the alert message by the security device after the security device receives the instruction message.

4. The security device of claim 1, wherein security control panel comprises an interface allowing a third party to control the security device to send an alert message.

5. The security device of claim 4, wherein security control panel comprises an interface allowing a third party to synchronize the sending of the alert message.

6. The security device of claim 1, wherein the alert message comprises an email sent to the terminal device of the user over an Internet provider.

7. The security device of claim 2, wherein the indicium of the data comprises a tag number associated with the image or video clip.

8. The security device of claim 1, wherein the security device generates an acknowledgment message or a negative acknowledgment message indicative of success or failure of sending the alert message to the address of the user device.

9. A method of reporting alert events to a terminal device of a user of a security system, comprising the steps of:

receiving a message including an indicium associated with data generated in response to an occurrence of an alert event in a detection zone of the security system;

identifying an address associated with the terminal device; and

sending an alert message including the data to the address of the terminal device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the data generated in response to an occurrence of an alert event in a detection zone of the security system comprises data of an image or a video clip captured by an IP camera.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the sending an alert message including the data to the address of the user device is performed by said IP camera.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the identifying an address associated with the terminal device is performed by a security control panel.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising adding text descriptive of the alert event to the alert message.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising sending an acknowledgment message or a negative acknowledgment message indicative of success or failure of sending the alert message including the data to the address of the terminal device.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the alert message comprises an email sent over an Internet provider.

16. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method of reporting alert events to a terminal device of a user of a security system, comprising:

receiving a message including an indicium associated with data generated in response to an occurrence of an alert event in a detection zone of the security system;

identifying an address associated with the terminal device; and

sending an alert message including the data to the address of the terminal device.