Protection and security system including three-dimensional virtual reality

• US 9,286,791 B2
• Filed: 10/08/2013
• Issued: 03/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyperion S.R.L.
• Original Assignee: Hyperion S.R.L.
• Inventors: Lagomarsini, Andrea
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US14/048,744
• Publication Number:
  US 20150097673A1
• Time in Patent Office: 889 Days
• Field of Search: 340/506, 340/541, 340/552, 348/143, 348/153, 348/154, 348/155, 715/771
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19697 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/188 Data fusion; cooperative systems, e.g. voting among different detectors

Abstract

A system of electronic devices for the detection and location of changes in a predetermined space for the protection and security of places, persons, and goods, including at least two general sensors and two data processing electronic devices connected to each other. One of the two data processing devices includes two electronic means. One of the electronic means reproduces with an appropriate fidelity the place to be monitored into a three-dimensional virtual reality. The second electronic means is capable of acquiring and storing security rules, receiving from the sensors and mapping their signals by correlating them according to criteria of coincidence in the virtual reality to identify events predetermined by the security rules as relevant for the activation of appropriate alarms or notifications.

Claims

1. A system of electronic devices for the detection and location of changes in a predetermined space for the protection and the security of places, persons, and goods including at least two sensors, a first data processing electronic device and at least one second data processing device connected to the first data processing device, where the second data processing device comprises:

(a) first electronic means reproducing with an appropriate fidelity the place to be monitored into a three-dimensional virtual reality;

(b) second electronic means that is configured and arranged for;

(b¹) acquiring and storing security rules set by a user for said place;

(b²) receiving data and/or signals from the sensors;

(b³) three-dimensionally mapping in said three-dimensional virtual reality, continually as time goes by, values that represent the signals;

(b⁴) processing, for each portion of the three-dimensional virtual reality, all signals mapped thereon to take out the data suitable for the application of the security rules set by the user for said place; and

(b⁵) applying the security rules set by the user for said place on the basis of the processing of the mapped signals and activating alarm signaling on the first data processing device and/or other external devices.

2. A system according to claim 1, where a Gateway device applies the security rules set by the user for said place on the basis of the overall analysis and overall reliability.

3. A system according to claim 1, where the second data processing device maps in the three-dimensional virtual reality the values that represent the signals coming from the sensors as time goes by, on the basis of:

(a) the subdivision of said virtual reality according to a cell-based three-dimensional grid; and

(b) the association with said cells of the three-dimensional grid of every sensor and its respective signal.

4. A system according to claim 3, where the second data processing device comprises:

(a) one or several third data processing devices, each defined as an Agent device, that are independent of and intercommunicating with each other, wherein each Agent device is connected to at least one sensor and capable of processing signals, and

(b) a fourth data processing device, defined as a Gateway device, that is capable of identifying the Agent devices having the signals of the sensors that each Agent device is connected to that are associated with in sets of cells of the three-dimensional grid featuring a non-null intersection and of activating their correlation.

5. A system according to claim 3, where a Gateway device applies the security rules set by the user for said place on the basis of the overall analysis and overall reliability.

6. A system according to claim 4, where every Agent device is configured and arranged for autonomously analyzing the signals continually coming from the sensors, so as:

identifying the appearance of a change in at least one object or at least one event;

classifying said objects or events by type;

positioning every object or event with reference to the cells of the grid of the virtual reality; and

to alternatively calculate the probability of error or the reliability of correctness of the analysis made.

7. A system according to claim 4, where the Gateway device applies the security rules set by the user for said place on the basis of the overall analysis and overall reliability.

8. A system according to claim 6, where every Agent device:

(a) continually communicates to the remaining Agent devices results of analysis correlated thereto every change, classification, and positioning, and its respective reliability;

(b) processes the results of the analysis received from every correlated Agent device with its own results of analysis and reliability, defined as analysis and overall reliability, respectively; and

(c) continually communicates to the Gateway device the overall analysis and overall reliability.

9. A system according to claim 6, where the Gateway device applies the security rules set by the user for said place on the basis of the overall analysis and overall reliability.

10. A system according to claim 8, where the communication of the overall analysis and the overall reliability to the Gateway device is implemented by at least one Agent device automatically identified on the basis of predetermined criteria.

11. A system according to claim 8, where the Gateway device applies the security rules set by the user for said place on the basis of the overall analysis and overall reliability.

12. A system according to claim 10, where the Gateway device applies the security rules set by the user for said place on the basis of the overall analysis and overall reliability.