Wireless remote monitoring apparatus for car security

• US 20060087411A1
• Filed: 03/15/2005
• Published: 04/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyohide Kashiwayama
• Original Assignee: Toyohide Kashiwayama
• Inventors: Chang, Myung Hyun
• Application Number:
  US11/080,107
• Publication Number:
  US 20060087411A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/426.180
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/102 a signal being sent to a remote location, e.g. a radio signal being transmitted to a police station, a security company or the owner
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/305 using a camera
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/33 of global position, e.g. by providing GPS coordinates

Abstract

A wireless remote monitoring apparatus for car security notifies a proper remote person or place of situation that a car is robbed or damaged or it needs repairs. The apparatus includes a monitoring unit for monitoring an abnormal state of a car, such as forcible opening of a door of the car or an external shock applied to the car; a photographing unit for photographing the inside or outside of the car when the monitoring unit detects the abnormal state of the car; a memory for storing an image photographed by the photographing unit; a GPS unit attached to the car for obtaining location information of the car; a clock for checking the time when the image and location information are obtained; and a communication unit for radio-transmitting the image, the location information and the time information to a remote server.

Claims

1. A wireless remote monitoring apparatus for car security, comprising:

a monitoring unit for monitoring an abnormal state of a car, such as forcible opening of a door of the car or an external shock applied to the car;

a photographing unite attached to the car for photographing the inside or outside of the car when the monitoring unit detects the abnormal state of the car;

a memory for storing an image photographed by the photographing unit;

a GPS unit attached to the car for obtaining location information of the car;

a clock for checking the time when the image and location information are obtained; and

a communication unit for radio-transmitting the image stored in the memory, the location information obtained by the GPS and the time information obtained by the clock to a remote server.

2. The wireless remote monitoring apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the memory stores the location information obtained by the GPS and the time information obtained by the clock, and the communication unit radio-transmits the location information and time information stored in the memory.

3. The wireless remote monitoring apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the remote server transmits the image, location information and time information stored in the memory to a callback center through wired or wireless communication.

4. The wireless remote monitoring apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the remote server transmits customer information, such as the telephone number, address and name of a customer and a person in charge in the callback center, to the callback sensor through wired or wireless communication.

5. The wireless remote monitoring apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the callback center includes a car repair shop, an insurance company, a police station and a security service company.

6. The wireless remote monitoring apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the remote server transmits the image, location information and time information to a wireless communication terminal of the owner of the car through wireless communication.

7. The wireless remote monitoring apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communication unit is operated when the monitoring unit detects the abnormal state of the car.

8. The wireless remote monitoring apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a hot key for operating the communication unit, the communication unit being operated by the hot key to radio-transmit the location information obtained by the GPS and the time information obtained by the clock to the remote server.

9. The wireless remote monitoring apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the remote server transmits the location information and time information, which are transmitted from the communication unit by the operation of the hot key, to the callback through wired or wireless communication.