Method of implementing GPS based extended chime and special escort mode in security panel

• US 9,852,593 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2015
• Issued: 12/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Divakara, Manjunatha, Ganesan, Balamurugan
• Primary Examiner(s): Lau, Hoi
• Application Number:
  US14/747,000
• Publication Number:
  US 20160379454A1
• Time in Patent Office: 917 Days
• Field of Search: 34053913, 34053912, 3405681, 340517, 34087007, 3405721, 34235755, 34235748, 342451
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/00 Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0261 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect trespassing over a fixed physical boundary, e.g. the end of a garden
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0269 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect the exact location of child or item using a navigation satellite system, e.g. GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0283 via a telephone network, e.g. cellular GSM
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/10 using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/207 with respect to certain areas, e.g. forbidden or allowed areas with possible alerting when inside or outside boundaries
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72424 with manual activation of emergency-service functions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

A system is provided that includes a security system that protects a secured geographic area, a geographic location outside of the secured area of an authorized human user of the security system saved in a memory of the security system, and a processor of the security system that tracks activity of the authorized user by geographic location outside of the secured area and generates an alert upon detecting that a difference between the tracked geographic location of the authorized user and saved location exceeds a threshold value.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a security system that protects a secured geographic area;

a control panel of the security system;

a user interface of the control panel that receives a geographic location destination located outside of the secured geographic area and saves the geographic location destination in a memory of the security system;

a portable wireless device that reports a current geographic location of the portable wireless device to the control panel; and

a processor of the security system that generates an alert upon detecting a difference between the current geographic location and the geographic location destination exceeding a predetermined threshold value,

wherein the control panel sends the alert to emergency services located in an area proximate to the geographic location destination.

2. The apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the portable wireless device is one of a wearable device or a smartphone.

3. The apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the processor generates the alert upon failing to detect any significant changes in the current geographic location for a predetermined time period.

4. The apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the user interface receives an estimated time of entry into the geographic location destination and an estimated time of departure from the geographic location destination.

5. The apparatus as in claim 4 wherein the geographic location destination includes a travel corridor defined by a path between the secured geographic area and the geographic location destination.

6. The apparatus as in claim 5 wherein the predetermined threshold value includes a predetermined lateral distance from a center of the travel corridor.

7. The apparatus as in claim 6 wherein the geographic location destination includes a geographic portion of the travel corridor that changes with time based upon an estimated speed of travel from the secured geographic area to the geographic location destination.

8. The apparatus as in claim 7 wherein the processor logs the current geographic location over a period of time and plots the current geographic location over the period of time on a map as a travel route.

9. The apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the alert includes an audible chime at the control panel.

10. The apparatus as in claim 8 wherein the processor displays the travel route on a display of the user interface along with the alert.