Control Panel Event Imaging for Accurate Alarm Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing security/automation systems face challenges in efficiently capturing and processing alarm event data, particularly in determining the cause of security events and managing system responses effectively.
Innovation Solution
A control panel equipped with a processor, memory, and cameras that determines security events and captures still images or videos subsequent to event detection, allowing for enhanced visual verification and system response.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If continuous video recording is used to capture security events, then visual verification accuracy is improved, but data storage requirements and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses motion detection to trigger periodic image capture instead of continuous recording. When motion is detected by the motion sensor or analyzed from camera feed, the system captures individual images or short video clips at those specific moments, thereby reducing overall data storage requirements while maintaining visual verification accuracy for security events.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary motion detection before capturing visual data. The motion sensor or video analysis identifies potential security events in advance, allowing the system to capture only relevant images or clips when actual events occur, rather than continuously recording all activity.
2Measurement precision
If multiple sensors and cameras are integrated in the control panel, then security event detection accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines multiple sensors (motion sensor, light sensor, temperature sensor) and cameras within a single control panel device. This integration allows the system to detect and respond to security events using multiple data sources simultaneously, improving detection accuracy while consolidating hardware into one unit.
Solution Approach 2:
The control panel is designed as a multi-functional device that performs security monitoring, environmental sensing, and visual recording capabilities. By making the control panel universal and capable of multiple functions, the system reduces the need for separate dedicated devices for each function.
3Speed
If real-time event processing is implemented, then system responsiveness is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system processes events in real-time only when triggered by motion detection or sensor alerts. Instead of continuously analyzing all sensor data, the system enters a lower-power state between events and activates full processing only when security-relevant events occur, thereby maintaining responsiveness while reducing overall energy consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses motion sensors and environmental sensors to automatically detect and trigger processing only when necessary. The system serves itself by identifying when real-time processing is needed based on sensor inputs, eliminating the need for continuous high-energy processing modes.
Data Source
AI summary
Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium comprising determining, by a processor of a control panel, that a security event has happened; and capturing still images or videos by a camera in the control panel subsequent to determining that the security event has happened. In some implementations, the camera is a forward-facing camera. In some implementations, determining that the security event has happened comprises detecting a motion using the camera in the control panel. In some implementations, determining that the security event has happened comprises receiving a signal indicative of activation of a door switch of a door located next to the control panel. In some implementations, the security event is associated with one or more Bluetooth devices being in range, and determining that the security event has happened comprises using a Bluetooth radio in the control panel to detect the Bluetooth devices.