Portable security system

• US 9,412,243 B2
• Filed: 08/27/2013
• Issued: 08/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Christopher C. Hamilton
• Original Assignee: Christopher C. Hamilton
• Inventors: Hamilton, Christopher C
• Primary Examiner(s): BLOUNT, ERIC
• Application Number:
  US14/011,507
• Publication Number:
  US 20150061870A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,078 Days
• Field of Search: 340/568.1, 340/541, 340/545, 340/546, 340/564, 340/500, 340/539.1, 340/545.3, 379/39
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/122 for a perimeter fence features peculiar to electrified fences A01K3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1436 with motion detection

Abstract

A portable alarm system designed for unoccupied unsecured locations, such as construction sites, machinery, campsites and the like. The alarm system defines a continuous monitoring line about the perimeter of the unsecured location using a plurality of wireless sensors attached to a flexible non-stretchable tape suspended between to vertical poles. The system has motion-sensing/detecting capabilities such that any movement of a housing where the microprocessor of the system is located generates audible/visual alarm. Each of the wireless sensors has a magnet and a transmitter positionable within a predetermined distance from the magnet. If the intruder tampers with the tape and increases the distance between the magnet the transmitter, the alarm is activated as well.

Claims

1. An alarm system, comprising:

a portable housing positionable in a predetermined location;

a programmable microprocessor secured within said housing;

at least one motion-sensing/detecting device operationally connected to the microprocessor, said at least one motion-sensing/detecting device generating an alarm signal in response to movement of the portable housing from the predetermined location;

an alarm device coupled to the microprocessor, the alarm device generating an audio and/or visual alarm signal in response to movement of the portable housing from the predetermined location;

a flexible tape means for defining a continuous monitoring line about a perimeter of the predetermined location, said flexible tape means comprising separate sections of flexible non-stretchable tape suspended between spaced apart vertical poles; and

at least one alarm signal transmitter operationally connected to the microprocessor and transmitting the alarm signal generated by the at least one motion-sensor detecting device to a remote location, the at least one alarm signal transmitter and the at least one motion-sensing/detecting device being suspended in close proximity on the flexible tape.

2. The system of claim 1, said at least one alarm signal transmitter is capable of wireless transmission.

3. The system of claim 1, the at least one motion-sensing/detecting device comprising at least one wireless sensor.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the vertical poles are positioned about the perimeter of the predetermined location.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the at least one motion-sensing/detecting device comprises a magnet member such that an increase in distance between the at least one wireless transmitter member and the magnet member generates an alarm processed by the microprocessor and transmitted to the alarm signal transmitter.

6. The device of claim 5, said at least one wireless transmitter member and the magnet member are supportable by adjacent vertical poles.

7. The system of claim 1, comprising a plurality of vertically spaced tapes extending between the vertical poles.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the at least one wireless transmitter member and the magnet member are each secured to adjacent free ends of the tape sections.

9. The system of claim 1, said predetermined location is an unoccupied unsecured location.

10. The system of claim 1, comprising a rechargeable battery.

11. The system of claim 10, comprising a transformer for connecting the battery to a source of AC power.

12. The system of claim 1, comprising a keypad for activating the alarm system, the keypad being positioned in the housing and operationally connected to the microprocessor.

13. An alarm system for a predetermined unoccupied unsecured location, comprising:

a portable housing positionable in the predetermined location;

a programmable microprocessor secured within said housing;

a motion-sensing/detecting device operationally connected to the microprocessor, said motion-sensing/detecting device generating an alarm signal in response to movement of the portable housing from the predetermined location;

an alarm device coupled to the microprocessor, the alarm device generating an audio and/or visual alarm signal in response to movement of the portable housing from the predetermined location;

an alarm signal transmitter transmitting the alarm signal generated by the motion-sensing/detecting device to a remote location;

a means, operationally connected to the microprocessor, for defining a continuous monitoring line about a perimeter of the predetermined location, said means for defining the continuous monitoring line comprising a plurality of wireless sensors positioned about the perimeter of the predetermined location; and

a plurality of vertical poles spaced about the perimeter of the predetermined location and at least one flexible non-stretchable tape composed of distinct tape segments suspended between the poles, and wherein the wireless sensors are suspended on adjacent free ends of the tape segments.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein each of the wireless sensors comprises a wireless transmitter member and a magnet member positioned on adjacent free ends of the tape segments at a predetermined distance from each other such that an increase in distance between the wireless transmitter member and the magnet member generates an alarm processed by the microprocessor and transmitted to the alarm device and a remote location.

15. The system of claim 13, comprising a plurality of vertically spaced tapes suspended between the poles.

16. The system of claim 13, comprising a rechargeable battery.

17. The system of claim 16, comprising a transformer for connecting the battery to a source of AC power.

18. The system of claim 13, comprising a keypad for activating the alarm system, the keypad being positioned in the housing and operationally connected to the microprocessor.