Cloud Safety Automation with Remote Hazard Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current home automation systems lack comprehensive and integrated solutions for detecting and responding to various hazard conditions, such as fires, toxic gases, and intrusions, especially in providing timely and effective notifications and alerts to occupants and emergency services, particularly when they are outside the premises.
Innovation Solution
A safety automation system comprising a computing management system with detection devices, wireless communication circuitry, and mobile user interface devices that can detect hazards, send notifications, and control ancillary alert devices, including tactile, visual, and audible alerts, while also providing location information and system maintenance alerts, utilizing cloud computing and satellite navigation for real-time tracking and alerts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If home automation systems use traditional local notification methods, then system complexity is reduced, but notification effectiveness and response time deteriorate when occupants are outside the premises
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a remote server as an intermediary between the detection device and the user's mobile device. The detection device sends hazard notifications to the server, which then relays them to the user's smartphone or tablet via wireless network, enabling reliable remote notification without requiring direct communication between detection and user devices
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from local physical notification (bells, lights within the premises) to remote digital notification through wireless networks and mobile devices, adding a spatial dimension that allows occupants to receive alerts anywhere with network connectivity
2Productivity
If the system provides comprehensive hazard detection and remote notification capabilities, then safety response effectiveness is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a universal communication protocol and standard wireless technologies (WiFi, cellular) that allow the detection device, server, and mobile devices to communicate without proprietary complex interfaces. The mobile device serves multiple functions including receiving alerts, displaying maps, providing navigation, and system control
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically detects hazards, sends notifications to the server, and relays them to the user's device without requiring manual intervention. The server automatically manages message routing and delivery, reducing the need for complex user-side configuration
3Reliability
If the system integrates multiple alert devices and notification methods, then hazard response capability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple alert methods (local bells, lights, remote mobile notifications, map location display, navigation guidance) into a single integrated system managed through a simple mobile interface. Users interact with one application that coordinates all alert devices and provides comprehensive hazard response information
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AI summary
A safety automation system (20) for an occupiable structure and method of operation includes a plurality of detection devices (30) to facilitate the detection of a hazard condition and output a hazard detected signal to a computing management system (44) that may be a cloud computing system. The management system includes a computer processor (46), and a computer readable storage medium (48) capable of generating various notifications to a mobile user interface device (32).