Remote non-intrusive occupant space monitoring system
First Claim
1. A remote non-intrusive monitor of a space of a building for occupants, comprising:
- a non-intrusive sensor module coupled to a power line for monitoring a space, the non-intrusive sensor module is configured to monitor the space from a position exterior a building encompassing the space; and
a processor connected to the sensor module; and
wherein;
the sensor module senses data on the power line and provides signals representative of electrical power used at the space in response to power system disturbances in the power supplied to the building from a utility power system;
the signals representative of the electrical power are analyzed by the processor; and
analysis by the processor of the signals results in information about how a space and/or an element, component, environment, and/or occupant, if any, of the space responds to power system disturbances in the power supplied to the building.
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Abstract
A system for remote non-intrusive occupant space monitoring. The system may have sensors and other mechanisms for non-intrusively obtaining information by capturing utility and communication signals, images, light, sound, environmental factors, background information, and so on, about a space and its occupants. The obtained information may be locally or remotely analyzed and modeled by a processor. Models of buildings, behavior, and power systems from the processor may be compared with pre-defined models to infer further information about the space and its occupants. Also, behavioral information may be obtained, inferred and/or learned. The models may be updated with the obtained, inferred and learned information.
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20 Claims
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1. A remote non-intrusive monitor of a space of a building for occupants, comprising:
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a non-intrusive sensor module coupled to a power line for monitoring a space, the non-intrusive sensor module is configured to monitor the space from a position exterior a building encompassing the space; and a processor connected to the sensor module; and wherein; the sensor module senses data on the power line and provides signals representative of electrical power used at the space in response to power system disturbances in the power supplied to the building from a utility power system; the signals representative of the electrical power are analyzed by the processor; and analysis by the processor of the signals results in information about how a space and/or an element, component, environment, and/or occupant, if any, of the space responds to power system disturbances in the power supplied to the building. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for non-intrusive monitoring of an element, comprising:
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non-intrusively obtaining data associated with a sensor or other detection approach of an element, wherein non-intrusively obtaining data comprises extracting data from an electric power line feeding a building with a sensor located exterior of the building and between a substation transformer and a site transformer; processing the data into at least one model of the element; matching the model to one or more predefined models representing certain information; associating the certain information with the element from the matching of the model of the element with the one or more predefined models representing the certain information; and creating improved models based upon learning and training from obtained data associated with the sensor in response to disturbances from a utility power system, human input, and previously improved models. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A non-intrusive monitor system comprising:
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a non-intrusive information acquisition mechanism comprising one or more non-intrusive sensors configured to be coupled to an electric power line feeding a building at a position exterior the building and between a substation transformer and a site transformer, the building including a space to be monitored by the non-intrusive monitor system; an analysis module connected to the non-intrusive acquisition mechanism; a modeling module connected to the analysis module; and a resultant module connected to the modeling module; and wherein; the sensor senses information from the electric power line at a location between the substation transformer and the site transformer and provides signals representative of electrical power used at the building in response to power system disturbances in power supplied to the building from a utility power system; the modeling module is for matching a model on a graph plot to an element based on comparing the model on a graph plot to one or more graph plots of one or more items relevant to the element; and the model implies other information about the element. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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