Central Monitoring Station Automatic Handshaking Table

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional remote monitoring systems face inefficiencies in establishing communications with remote alarm panels due to varying communication protocols and data formatting, leading to time-consuming trial-and-error handshaking processes.

Innovation Solution

A central monitoring station (CMS) employs an automatic handshaking table to identify and store information about known remote alarm panels, allowing for immediate selection of appropriate handshake signals and data formatting, thereby streamlining subsequent interactions and reducing call processing time.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional trial-and-error handshaking processes are used to establish communications with remote alarm panels, then compatibility with various communication protocols is achieved, but call processing time increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompatibility with various communication protocolsVSAvoidcall processing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs handshaking operations in advance during the first communication attempt with a remote alarm panel. The determined handshake signal and data formatting information are stored for reuse in subsequent calls, eliminating the need to repeat the trial-and-error process and significantly reducing call processing time for known panels

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a copy of the successfully determined handshake signal and data formatting information from the first communication attempt and stores it in a database. This copied information is then reused for subsequent communications with the same alarm panel, avoiding redundant trial-and-error handshaking processes

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Measurement precision

If trial-and-error decoding techniques are stepped through to determine appropriate decoding processes, then accurate data signal decoding is achieved, but communication efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata signal decoding accuracyVSAvoidcommunication efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system determines and stores the appropriate decoding technique during the initial communication attempt with a remote alarm panel. This preliminary determination allows subsequent calls to use the pre-determined decoding technique directly, maintaining decoding accuracy while significantly improving communication efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from the successful decoding of data signals during the first communication attempt to identify and store the appropriate decoding technique. This feedback mechanism allows the system to learn from each successful interaction and apply the learned decoding technique to future communications with the same panel

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If handshake signals are transmitted to determine the appropriate signal for each alarm panel, then reliable communication establishment is achieved, but resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication establishment reliabilityVSAvoidresource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system copies and stores the successfully determined handshake signal from the first communication attempt and reuses it for subsequent communications with the same alarm panel. This eliminates the need to repeatedly transmit multiple handshake signals, reducing resource consumption while maintaining reliable communication establishment

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system recovers and stores the determined handshake signal and data formatting information from the initial communication attempt. Instead of discarding this information after the first use, the system recovers and reuses it for subsequent calls, reducing resource consumption while maintaining communication reliability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #34Discarding and recovering

Data Source

PatentUS9860388B1Automatic handshaking to improve call processing and performance

Publication Date: 2018.01.02 TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH

AI summary

Techniques for a central monitoring station (CMS) of a monitoring system to establish communications with a remote alarm panel more quickly and efficiently are provided. A signal from a remote alarm panel can be received by the CMS. The CMS can identify the remote alarm panel based on information related to the received signal. The CMS can determine if the remote alarm panel is known or unknown based on any prior interaction with the remote alarm panel. The CMS can store information regarding known remote alarm panels from prior interactions. Handshake signals and data formatting information determined from prior interactions with the known remote alarm panel can be stored and used on subsequent calls. Additional operational information related to the remote alarm panel can also be updated after each call to further customize future interactions with the remote alarm panel.