System and method of telephone input for alarm events
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1. A monitoring system comprising:
- a condition monitoring control unit;
a plurality of ambient condition detectors and a plurality of output devices coupled to the condition monitoring control unit; and
a communications interface coupled to the condition monitoring control unit, the communications interface having at least one input port that receives a call with incoming voice verbal communication reporting a fire, medical or other emergency through a telephone-type communications system and, reply circuitry, responsive to the incoming voice verbal communications, that automatically produced verbal reply through the telephone-type communications system, the communications interface recognizing a telephone number or extension of a source of the call and location information of the emergency from the telephone number or extension.
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Abstract
An interface between a telephone-type communications system and a regional ambient condition monitoring system receives incoming verbal status information relative to the region. That information can be transferred to the monitoring system. Verbal messages can be fed back to the communications systems to provide information as to responding to conditions in the region being monitored.
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1. A monitoring system comprising:
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a condition monitoring control unit; a plurality of ambient condition detectors and a plurality of output devices coupled to the condition monitoring control unit; and a communications interface coupled to the condition monitoring control unit, the communications interface having at least one input port that receives a call with incoming voice verbal communication reporting a fire, medical or other emergency through a telephone-type communications system and, reply circuitry, responsive to the incoming voice verbal communications, that automatically produced verbal reply through the telephone-type communications system, the communications interface recognizing a telephone number or extension of a source of the call and location information of the emergency from the telephone number or extension. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An interface comprising:
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a first circuit for interfacing with a telephone-type communications system; a second circuit for interfacing with a monitoring system; control circuits coupled to both the first circuit and the second circuit, and responsive to a call with incoming verbal communications reporting a fire, medical or other emergency through the telephone-type communications system, including communications evaluation circuitry that recognizes a telephone number or extension of a source of the call and location information of the emergency from the telephone number or extension; and speech production circuitry to verbally request entry of a condition specifying indicator. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method comprising:
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condition monitoring circuitry monitoring a status of a telephone-type communications system; if the system is in a selected state, the condition monitoring circuitry awaiting an incoming call with verbally-obtained communication through the telephone-type communications system reporting a fire, medical or other emergency; the condition monitoring circuitry evaluating a source of the incoming verbally-obtained communication, and, if acceptable, the condition monitoring circuitry requesting entry of a condition specifying indicator; the condition monitoring circuitry recognizing location information of the emergency based upon a source of the incoming verbally-obtained communication; and the condition monitoring circuitry forwarding information specifying the condition specifying indicator to a regional monitoring system. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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