Smart Cooking Surveillance System for Automated Power Interruption
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current home security monitoring systems for cooking equipment are limited in detecting specific security breaches and do not take adequate automated precautions to prevent accidents, often triggering false alarms and lacking in response actions.
Innovation Solution
A stove monitoring system that uses a surveillance device with wireless communications to conduct video and audio surveillance, analyze anomalies, and send commands to interrupt power or gas supply to the cooking appliances upon detecting potential security threats, utilizing a power interrupt circuit and AI for anomaly detection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If general security monitoring systems are used to detect movement and notify monitoring parties, then the system can provide remote monitoring capability, but the system triggers false alarms when authorized persons are present and lacks automated response actions
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different monitoring rules and recognition algorithms to different zones and objects within the kitchen. Authorized persons are identified and excluded from alarm triggers, while unauthorized objects or behaviors in critical zones (near stove, oven, etc.) trigger automated responses. This localized differentiation resolves the false alarm problem without requiring complete system redesign.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring system automatically identifies threats, makes decisions, and executes responses without human intervention. The system self-manages the entire process from detection through to appliance shutdown or emergency services notification, eliminating the need for human monitoring while improving reliability and reducing false alarms through automated object recognition and decision logic.
2Reliability
If automated power interrupt circuits are implemented to shut off appliances upon detecting threats, then the system can take immediate protective action, but the system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
Power interrupt circuits and emergency shutoff mechanisms are pre-installed and configured in the system before threats occur. These automated protective devices are ready to immediately cut power to appliances when threats are detected, eliminating response delays. The preliminary setup of these safety mechanisms provides immediate protective action while the complexity is managed through standardized integration protocols.
3Reliability
If continuous video and audio surveillance is conducted to detect anomalies, then the system can identify security threats early, but the energy consumption and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs periodic sampling of video and audio data rather than continuous full-resolution processing. Motion detection and audio anomaly detection trigger targeted analysis only when needed, reducing overall energy consumption while maintaining reliable threat detection. The periodic action allows the system to remain in low-power mode during normal operation and activate full surveillance only when potential threats are detected.
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AI summary
A method for mitigating a potential security issue with one or more electric and gas cooking appliances equipped with a power interrupt circuit and capable of receiving a wireless signal operated in a monitored space includes conducting video and or audio surveillance of the cooking equipment and the surrounding monitored space using a surveillance device having wireless communications capability, where upon detection of anomaly characterized as motion, sound, or other interference that may be defined by the surveillance device as a security issue, conducting analysis of the data in comparison with archived data to disqualify or qualify the anomaly as a security issue, whereupon qualifying the anomaly detected and analyzed as a security threat, sending a wireless command to the power interrupt circuit to interrupt electric power flow to the one or more electric cooking appliances.