Systems and methods of intrusion detection

• US 9,558,639 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2014
• Issued: 01/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Modi, Yash, Peterson, Kevin Charles, Malhotra, Mark Rajan, Dey, Sourav, Au, Lawrence
• Primary Examiner(s): Torres, Juan A
• Application Number:
  US14/585,295
• Publication Number:
  US 20160189496A1
• Time in Patent Office: 763 Days
• Field of Search: 340/545.2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/00 Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
• 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 13/22 Electrical actuation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/002 with occupancy simulation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system

Abstract

Systems and methods of the disclosed embodiments provide a sensor to detect a side from which a door or window is being opened, and a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor to determine the side from which the door or window is being opened, and to generate a security exception based on the determination of the side from which the door or window is being opened.

Claims

1. A security system comprising:

a first sensor to detect a side from which a door or window is being opened based on detected first data while the security system is in a first operating mode;

a second sensor to confirm the detected side from which the door or window is being opened based on detected second data; and

a controller communicatively coupled to the first sensor and the second sensor to determine the side from which the door or window is being opened based on aggregation of the first and second data, and to generate a security exception based on a time of day and based on the determination of the side from which the door or window is being opened while the security system is in the first operating mode without altering the first operating mode.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the security exception generated by the controller includes an action selected from the group consisting of:

the controller refrains from activating an alarm device, the controller refrains from sending a notification message to a device communicatively coupled to the controller, and the controller changes the first operating mode to a second operating mode.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensor captures image data of a person, the controller compares data based on the captured image with a pre-stored image data, determines the identity of the person and generates the security exception based on the determined identity.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensor captures identifying information from a device carried by a person, the controller compares the captured identifying information with pre-stored identifying information, determines the identity of the person based on the comparison and generates the security exception based on the determined identity of the person.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller determines that the door or window is being opened from inside and the controller generates the security exception based on the determination that the door or window is being opened from inside.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the sensor captures identifying information of a person opening the door or window, and

wherein the controller determines the identity the person opening the door or window based upon information received from the sensor, and generates the security exception based on the determined identity of the person opening the door or window.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the device is selected from a group consisting of:

a smartphone, a wearable computing device, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, an electronic fitness band, a key FOB, and an RFID device.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the controller sends a notification message identifying the door or window is being opened and the side from which it is being opened.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein controller determines that the door is being opened from the outside by an authorized user and changes the first operating mode from a vacation mode or an away mode to the second operating mode of a home mode.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the controller changes the first operating mode to the second operating mode, wherein an alarm would be dispatched when the identified person entered the building through the door in the first operating mode and an alarm would not be dispatched when the identified person entered the building through the door in the second operating mode.

11. The system of claim 6, wherein the controller changes the operating mode from the first operating mode to the second operating mode, wherein an alarm would not be dispatched when the identified person entered the building through the door in the first operating mode and an alarm would be dispatched when the identified person entered the building through the door in the second operating mode.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein a content of the transmitted notification message is based on an identity of a person that is determined by the controller based upon information received from the sensor when the door or window is opened.

13. A method performed in a security system in a first operating mode, the method comprising:

detecting, by a first sensor, a side from which a door or window is being opened based on detected first data;

confirming, by a second sensor, the detected side from which the door or window is being opened based on detected second data;

determining, by a controller communicatively coupled to the first sensor and the second sensor, the side from which the door or window is being opened based on aggregation of the first and second data; and

generating, by the controller, a security exception based on a time of day and based on the determined side from which the door or window is being opened without altering the first operating mode of the security system.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the security exception includes an action selected from the group consisting of:

refraining from outputting a control signal to an alarm device, and refraining from outputting a notification message to a device communicatively coupled to the controller, and changing the first operating mode to a second operating mode.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

capturing, by the sensor, an image of the person; and

comparing, by the controller, data based on the captured image with a pre-stored image data;

determining, by the controller, the identity of the person; and

generating the security exception based on the determined identity.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

capturing, by the sensor, identifying information from a device carried by the person; and

comparing, by the controller, the captured identifying information with pre-stored identifying information; and

determining, by the controller, the identity of the person based on the comparison,

wherein the security exception is generated based on the determined identity of the person.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the security exception is generated by the controller when the controller determines that the door or window is being opened from inside of the building.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

determining, by the controller, the identity the person opening the door or window based upon identifying information received from the sensor,

wherein the detecting by the sensor includes detecting the identifying information corresponding to the identity of a person opening the door or window, and

wherein the generating the security exception is based on the determined identity of the person opening the door or window.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

transmitting, by the controller, a notification message to a device to be displayed that the door or window is being opened from the inside.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the first operating mode is changed from vacation mode or an away mode to the second operating mode of a home mode when the controller generates the security exception and when the captured identifying information is from a registered user.

21. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

changing, by the controller, the first operating mode to the second operating mode; and

dispatching an alarm when the identified person entered the building through the door in the first operating mode and not dispatching the alarm when the identified person entered the building through the door in the second operating mode.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein a content of the transmitted notification message is based on an identity of a person that is determined by the controller based upon information received from the sensor when the door or window is opened.