AI Deterrence Control Panels for Predictive Security Response

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional security and automation systems are inefficient as they require explicit intervention from users and often fail to prevent events like theft or property damage, despite improvements in sensing technologies.

Innovation Solution

A smart sensing system that uses a control panel to monitor and predict changes in conditions within a smart environment, applying machine learning techniques to autonomously handle resources and deter potential threats by analyzing sensor data, including video, image, and audio inputs, to influence behavior and prevent events.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional sensing techniques are used to monitor conditions, then the system can detect events, but it requires explicit intervention by personnel and is inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem dependabilityVSAvoiduser intervention requirement
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically analyzing sensor data, detecting events, and triggering responses without requiring user intervention. The control panel autonomously processes monitoring data and executes security functions, eliminating the need for explicit personnel involvement while maintaining reliable detection capabilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by proactively analyzing sensor inputs and predicting potential security threats before they materialize. The control panel continuously monitors and evaluates data in advance, enabling preemptive security responses rather than reactive interventions after events occur

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Loss of information

If conventional security systems report events, then information is provided, but theft or property damage still occurs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevent information reportingVSAvoidtheft and property damage
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies preliminary anti-action by detecting indicators of potential theft or property damage and executing countermeasures before the harmful events occur. The control panel analyzes sensor data to identify suspicious patterns and triggers preventive security responses, such as alerts or automated deterrents, to stop theft and property damage before they happen

Inventive Principle:
Principle #9Preliminary anti-action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements continuous feedback by constantly monitoring sensor inputs, evaluating detected conditions against security criteria, and automatically adjusting responses based on the current state. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures that security actions are dynamically adapted to prevent harmful events while providing accurate event information

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Loss of time

If machine learning techniques are applied for prediction, then future changes can be anticipated, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprediction accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces complex mechanical or manual analysis mechanisms with machine learning algorithms that automatically process sensor data. The control panel uses AI techniques to detect patterns and predict future conditions, substituting sophisticated computational models for simpler but less effective traditional methods, thereby achieving accurate predictions while managing complexity through software-based solutions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS20240202331A1Artificial intelligence deterrence techniques for security and automation systems
Publication Date: 2024.06.20 VIVINT LLC
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AI summary

Methods, systems, and devices for deterrence techniques using a security and automation system are described. In one method, the system may receive a set of inputs from one or more sensors of the security and automation system. The system may determine one or more characteristics of a person proximate the security and automation system based at least in part on the received set of inputs. The system may predict an event based at least in part on a correlation between the one or more characteristics and the event. The system may perform one or more security and automation actions prior to the predicted event.