Networked Community Security Monitoring for Early Intrusion Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional intruder alarm systems are limited in their ability to provide early detection, are prone to false alarms, and often require external monitoring services that may not be timely or effective, especially when intruders enter occupied premises, leading to increased vulnerability and potential violent confrontations.
Innovation Solution
A community security system that networks multiple private security areas to share information and engage sensory alerts, using detection devices, a master device, and a shared supervisory server to monitor and respond to potential intrusions across adjacent zones, providing real-time alerts and notifications to community members and authorities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If conventional alarm systems use external alarm sensors to provide earlier alarm detection, then detection time is improved, but false alarm rate increases due to unpredictable environmental conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple detection devices from different private security areas into a networked community security system. By merging detection capabilities across multiple zones and using a shared supervisory server, the system achieves earlier intruder detection while reducing false alarms through cross-validation of detection data from multiple sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The shared supervisory server acts as an intermediary that receives, processes, and validates detection data from multiple detection devices. It coordinates information sharing between adjacent security zones and determines whether detected activities represent true intrusions or false alarms, thereby reducing false alarm rates while maintaining early detection capability.
2Loss of information
If conventional alarm systems rely on security monitoring companies to coordinate contact with key holders, then notification capability is improved, but response time worsens due to distance and unavailability
Solution Approach 1:
The community security system enables self-service by directly notifying community members and authorities through the networked detection system. When intruders are detected, the system automatically engages sensory alerts and sends notifications to nearby community members and authorities without requiring external monitoring companies, thereby reducing response time and eliminating dependency on distant third-party services.
3Measurement precision
If multiple private security areas are networked together to share information, then detection accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The shared supervisory server provides universal functionality by serving multiple private security areas simultaneously. It handles detection data processing, information sharing, alert coordination, and notification distribution for the entire community, thereby improving detection accuracy across all zones without requiring each area to have separate complex systems.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a community security system capable of monitoring multiple, generally adjacent, consecutive private security areas to confirm human activity and engage sensory alerts. The community security system includes at least two private security areas having the capability of being networked together to enable information sharing. Each private security area is monitored by a private security system and contains one or more detection devices for monitoring and detecting activity occurring within the boundaries of the private security area. Information detected by detection devices within the private security areas can then communicate with other detection devices within the private security area or with the community security system to confirm activity, track activity across adjacent boundaries, engage sensory alerts and notify community members or authorities, as needed.