Dealer Device Localization for Security System Trouble Notifications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing security systems cannot distinguish between localized and area-wide system troubles, such as power or communication failures, leading to unnecessary user alerts and network overload during area-wide issues.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilizes a dealer device to determine whether a system trouble is localized or area-wide by transmitting status request signals to other control panel devices within a predetermined area, allowing for differentiated alerts to users and central monitoring stations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If control panel devices transmit system trouble alerts for area-wide failures, then users receive notifications of the trouble, but the network becomes overloaded with redundant alerts from multiple devices
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential notification function from area-wide trouble scenarios. Instead of transmitting full alert signals from every control panel device, the system extracts and transmits only location identification data for area-wide troubles, while still delivering complete notifications to users through the central monitoring station.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different notification qualities based on the scope of the trouble. For localized troubles, full alert signals are transmitted with detailed information. For area-wide troubles, only condensed location identification data is transmitted from individual devices, with the central station responsible for generating comprehensive notifications.
2Ease of operation
If control panel devices transmit the same system trouble alert regardless of scope, then users receive consistent notifications, but users cannot distinguish between localized and area-wide troubles
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses different signal types as 'color codes' to indicate trouble scope. Localized troubles generate full alert signals with detailed information, while area-wide troubles generate condensed location identification signals. The central monitoring station interprets these different signal types and presents them to users in a consistent, easily distinguishable format.
3Area of stationary object
If all control panel devices transmit alerts during area-wide failures, then comprehensive coverage is achieved, but unnecessary alerts are sent to users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the notification function for area-wide troubles at the central monitoring station level rather than at each individual control panel device. Multiple condensed location identification signals from different devices are combined and processed centrally to generate a single comprehensive user notification, eliminating redundant transmissions.
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AI summary
Systems and methods of providing intelligent system trouble notifications using localization are provided. Some methods can include a dealer device receiving a first signal from a first control panel device indicative of a system trouble event at the first control panel device, the dealer device transmitting a second signal to each of a plurality of other control panel devices soliciting a status update therefrom, the dealer device receiving a third signal from each of the plurality of other control panel devices indicative of a respective system status, and the dealer device determining whether the system trouble event is local to the first control panel device or is area wide.