Crowdsourced Security Monitoring With Drone Threat Response
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Solution Overview
Problem
Home security systems are limited to monitoring and securing individual properties and cannot extend protection to external areas or share security data across disparate systems, making it difficult to monitor large areas or protect individuals outside their defined coverage without significant resource investment.
Innovation Solution
An electronic monitoring and protection system that aggregates auditory, visual, and security data from existing home security devices to monitor and secure areas, identifies potential threats, and deploys drones when necessary, leveraging permissions from users to access security data from various devices for crowd-sourced monitoring and protection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If home security systems are used to monitor individual properties, then security coverage is provided for individual homes, but the system cannot monitor areas outside the homeowner's property or share data across systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple independent home security systems into a unified networked platform that aggregates security data from various devices across different properties. This merging enables extended monitoring coverage beyond individual homes while maintaining data sharing capabilities across the entire network of security systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The security system is designed with universal interfaces and protocols that allow it to work with multiple different types of security devices and systems. This multi-functionality enables the system to aggregate data from diverse sources (cameras, sensors, alarms) across different properties and coordinate responses, making the system adaptable to various monitoring scenarios.
2Area of stationary object
If monitoring devices are deployed to cover entire neighborhoods, then comprehensive area monitoring is achieved, but significant investment is required to install sufficient devices
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the monitoring capabilities of existing home security devices from multiple properties to create collective neighborhood coverage. Instead of installing new devices throughout the neighborhood, it combines the coverage areas of individual home security systems that are already in place, achieving comprehensive monitoring without proportional increases in device quantity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system leverages existing home security infrastructure that homeowners have already installed and are using for their own properties. By having these existing devices serve dual purposes (both individual home security and collective neighborhood monitoring), the system avoids the need for additional device installations while expanding coverage area.
3Loss of information
If security data is shared between disparate home security systems, then information sharing speed and accuracy improve, but permission and access management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a central platform or intermediary layer that manages data sharing between disparate security systems. This intermediary handles permission verification, data routing, and coordination, simplifying the complexity of direct system-to-system communication while enabling efficient information sharing across the network.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where security events trigger automated responses and information sharing based on pre-configured rules and user permissions. This feedback loop enables rapid information dissemination while maintaining access control, as the system automatically manages permission checks and data distribution based on established protocols rather than requiring complex real-time negotiation.
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AI summary
An electronic monitoring and protection system which obtains permission from each of a plurality of users to access security data from one or more monitoring devices. The electronic monitoring and protection system using the security data to determine a threat level posed to a person to be protected, and initiating an action if the threat level exceeds a predetermined threshold.