Attic Wildlife Detection Using 360-Degree Cameras and Pyroelectric Sensors
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing attic security systems lack a comprehensive solution for detecting wildlife using a single device with a motion sensor and panoramic camera, which can efficiently alert users via text or email.
Innovation Solution
An attic security system comprising a microprocessor-connected 360-degree video cameras with embedded motion sensors, capable of detecting wildlife and sending images or videos to a remote device via text message or email, utilizing a housing assembly, camera assembly, and electronic assembly with pyroelectric infrared sensors and convolutional neural networks for pattern recognition.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a single device with integrated motion sensor and panoramic camera is used, then device complexity is reduced and ease of operation is improved, but manufacturing precision and reliability requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the motion sensor, panoramic video cameras, microprocessor, and transmitter into a single integrated security device. This merging of previously separate components into one unified device simplifies installation and operation while maintaining detection and communication functions through internal wireless connections between components.
2Measurement precision
If panoramic video cameras with 360-degree view are used, then measurement precision and detection capability are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The panoramic surveillance function is achieved by dividing the monitoring task among multiple video cameras positioned at different locations within the device housing. Each camera captures a specific sector, and the microprocessor integrates these segmented views to create comprehensive 360-degree coverage, reducing the complexity of using a single complex panoramic camera.
3Ease of manufacture
If motion sensor and camera are built in a single device, then ease of manufacture is improved, but device complexity increases due to integration requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The single security device is designed with multi-functionality, serving as both a motion detection station and a panoramic surveillance system. The microprocessor coordinates multiple functions including motion sensing, video capture from multiple cameras, image processing, and wireless transmission, allowing a single device to perform what previously required multiple separate systems.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Provides an efficient, economical, and effective means to detect and alert users of wildlife presence in attics through panoramic video capture and transmission, ensuring user notification with images or videos while being easy to implement and maintain.
Implementation Method 1
utilizing a housing assembly, camera assembly, and electronic assembly with pyroelectric infrared sensors
Data Source
AI summary
An attic security system including a housing assembly, a camera assembly and an electronic assembly. The housing assembly includes a housing. The electronic assembly is embedded within said housing. The camera assembly includes at least one camera. The at least one camera is attached to a top end of the housing. The electronic assembly includes sensors and a microprocessor. The microprocessor can identify patterns of shapes and movement patterns through the sensors and the at least one camera. The microprocessor can recognize if the movement patterns and the patterns of shape correspond to movement patterns and patterns of shape of wildlife and send images or videos taken by the at least one camera to a remote device via email or text.