Anti-intruder security system with sensor network and actuator network

• US 7,012,524 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2003
• Issued: 03/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Hisano, Atsushi, Kameyama, Masanori
• Primary Examiner(s): La, Anh V.
• Application Number:
  US10/638,534
• Publication Number:
  US 20050073404A1
• Time in Patent Office: 945 Days
• Field of Search: 340/541, 340/5.2, 340/5.8, 340/528, 340/545.1, 340/522, 340/573.4, 340/556, 340/506, 340/547
• US Class Current: 340/541
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/02 with smoke, gas, or coloured or odorous powder or liquid
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system

Abstract

The system in one embodiment operates while automatically switching among three processes including an absent-at-home guard process, an at-home guard process, and a non-guard process according to the positional relationship between the movable localizer and the internal guard surfaces/the external guard surface. When an actuator (such as a speaker and a white smoke generating unit) is integrated into the localizer, the localizer located at an intruder generates alarm sound or white smoke in the absent-at-home guard process. When the intruder moves inside the house, the localizer generating the alarm sound and the localizer generating the white smoke change following the intruder. The actuator is controlled such that an intruder is discouraged to approach the internal guard surface or such that a house member inside the internal guard surface can evacuate in a direction departing from the intruder in the at-home guard process.

Claims

1. An anti-intruder security system executing a predetermined reaction process on detection of intrusion into a facility to be guarded, the system comprising:

member location detecting means for detecting the location of an authorized member who uses said facility;

intrusion location detecting means for detecting the location of intrusion into said facility;

actuators disposed at multiple locations in said facility, and executing said reaction process against said intrusion; and

invocation control means for invoking said reaction process by selecting said actuator for conducting said reaction process according to a relationship between the location of said authorized member detected by said member location detecting means, and the location of said intrusion detected by said intrusion location detecting means.

2. The anti-intruder security system according to claim 1, wherein said invocation control means controls such that one or more of said actuators including the actuator closest to the location of said intrusion are selected so as to invoke said reaction process when the distance between the location of the intrusion and the location of said authorized member becomes equal to or less than a predetermined value.

3. The anti-intruder security system according to claim 1, wherein said invocation control means controls such that an actuator within a predetermined distance from said authorized member, and farthest from said intrusion location, supplies the authorized member with an output for evacuation guidance.

4. The anti-intruder security system according to claim 1, wherein said actuator generates white smoke.

5. The anti-intruder security system according to claim 1, wherein said member location detecting means detects the location of a device which can wirelessly transmit an ID code corresponding to said facility.

6. The anti-intruder security system according to claim 1, wherein said member location detecting means detects the location of a device which can wirelessly transmit an ID code corresponding to said facility, and incorporates one of said actuators reacting against intrusion.

7. An anti-intruder security system executing a predetermined reaction process on detection of intrusion into a facility to be guarded, the system comprising:

member location detecting means for detecting the location of an authorized member who uses said facility;

intrusion location detecting means for detecting the location of intrusion into said facility;

external guard surface memorizing means for memorizing an external guard surface for invoking an absent-at-home guard process when said authorized member is not present inside;

internal guard surface memorizing means for memorizing an internal guard surface for invoking an at-home guard process when said authorized member is present inside;

actuators disposed at multiple locations in said facility, and executing said reaction process against said intrusion; and

invocation control means for using the location of said authorized member detected by said member location detecting means so as to control the invocation of said absent-at-home guard process and said at-home guard process.

8. The anti-intruder security system according to claim 7, wherein said actuator generates white smoke.

9. The anti-intruder security system according to claim 7, wherein said member location detecting means detects the location of a device which can wirelessly transmit an ID code corresponding to said facility.

10. The anti-intruder security system according to claim 7, wherein said member location detecting means detects the location of a device which can wirelessly transmit an ID code corresponding to said facility, and incorporates one of said actuators reacting against intrusion.

11. The anti-intruder security system according to claim 10, wherein said device generates white smoke.

12. A localizer comprising:

an antenna unit;

a wireless transceiver unit connected with said antenna unit for transmitting/receiving information;

a distance measuring unit for transmitting/receiving a signal modulated by a specific code through said wireless transceiver unit so as to measure the distance to a device serving as a destination of the wireless transmission/reception, the specific code corresponding to an ID code of the network to which the localizer belongs;

a data communication unit for transmitting/receiving a second signal modulated by the specific code through said wireless transceiver unit so as to conduct data communication with the device serving as the destination of the wireless transmission/reception;

an actuator for executing a reaction process against intrusion; and

a control unit responsible for overall control.

13. The localizer according to claim 12, wherein said actuator generates white smoke.

14. The localizer according to claim 12, further comprising:

human body detecting means for detecting the existence of a human body between the localizer and another localizer based on waveform analysis of a radio signal between the localizers; and

anti-human processing means for using said actuator so as to conduct a reaction process against intrusion when the output from said human body detecting means indicates human body detection.

15. A method for using said localizer according to claim 12 which can measure a mutual distance so as to set a three dimensional coordinate system, the method comprising the steps of:

installing a first localizer at the origin of said coordinate system;

installing a second localizer at a location assumed as a predetermined direction of a first axis of said coordinate system;

installing a third localizer on a first surface which is the same surface on which said first localizer and said second localizer are disposed;

measuring the distance between said first localizer and said second localizer, registering the distance as the coordinate of the second localizer with respect to said first axis, respectively measuring the distances from the first and second localizers to said third localizer, and using a predetermined operation to calculate the coordinate of the third localizer with respect to the first axis, and the coordinate of the third localizer with respect to a second axis orthogonal to the first axis and present on the first surface;

installing a fourth localizer at a location not present on said first surface;

measuring distances from said fourth localizer to said first, second, and third localizers; and

using a predetermined operation to obtain respective coordinates of the fourth localizer with respect to said first axis, said second axis, and a third axis orthogonal to said first surface, thereby obtaining a three dimensional coordinate system.

16. A method for using a movable localizer so as to set a guard surface in said three dimensional coordinate system set by said method according to claim 15, the method comprising the steps of:

repeating a predetermined number of times an operation of moving said movable localizer to the location of a point constituting said guard surface, supplying the movable localizer with a predetermined input, and registering the three dimensional coordinate of the location constituting said guard surface; and

collecting a predetermined number or more of the three dimensional coordinates of said points constituting said guard surface, then, obtaining the minimum rectangular solid including said points constituting said guard surface, applying a predetermined conversion to the minimum rectangular solid as a base, and setting the surface of an obtained new rectangular solid as the guard surface.

17. A car security system comprising:

a control localizer installed inside a vehicle;

a fixed localizer installed on an internal surface of individual doors of said vehicle, and measuring the distance to another fixed localizer and to said control localizer;

a movable localizer held by a person who has authority of entering into/exiting from said vehicle; and

abnormality determining means for monitoring a change in the distance between said localizers installed inside said vehicle when said movable localizer exists outside an external guard surface set by the localizers installed inside the vehicle, and determining an existence of abnormality when the change in distance satisfies a predetermined condition,

wherein a predetermined reaction process is executed when said abnormality determining means determines abnormality.

18. The car security system according to claim 17, wherein said reaction process generates white smoke.

19. A sensor/actuator network system comprising:

a plurality of fixed nodes; and

a control node,

wherein each of said fixed nodes comprises;

sensing means for sensing an ambient environment;

wireless communication means;

an actuator for applying action to the outside; and

control means for using said wireless communication means so as to transmit the information on said ambient environment detected by said sensing means to said control node, and simultaneously invoking said actuator in response to an instruction from the control node,

said control node determines which of said fixed nodes should invoke said actuator based on said information on said ambient environment obtained from the fixed node, and then invokes the respective actuators of the determined fixed node to apply the action; and

wherein said control node monitors information on the distance between said fixed nodes as said ambient environment information.

20. The sensor/actuator network system according to claim 19, wherein each of said fixed nodes is a fixed localizer, and said control node is a control localizer.