GPS-Based Security Panel Extended Chime and Escort Mode
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional security systems effectively protect individuals within secured areas but fail to provide adequate protection and personal safety for authorized users when they are outside these areas, such as when traveling or staying away from home.
Innovation Solution
A security system that includes threat sensors within a secured area, a control panel, and a portable wireless device with GPS capabilities, which monitors and reports the geographic location of users outside the secured area, generating alerts if deviations from intended destinations or unusual activities are detected, providing 'Extended Chime Mode' and 'Special Escort Mode' for enhanced personal safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional security systems with local sensors and control panels are used, then protection within secured areas is effective, but protection for authorized users outside secured areas is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The control panel is enhanced to perform both traditional local security monitoring functions and new GPS-based remote user tracking functions. The system universally monitors threats both within secured areas via sensors and outside secured areas via GPS coordinates from mobile devices, allowing one system to serve multiple protection purposes.
Solution Approach 2:
Mobile devices with GPS capabilities serve as intermediary components between the control panel and authorized users outside the secured area. These devices transmit location data to the control panel, enabling remote monitoring without requiring direct physical presence or additional infrastructure at user locations.
2Reliability
If GPS tracking and extended monitoring features are added to protect users outside secured areas, then personal safety protection is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control panel integrates multiple functions including traditional alarm monitoring, GPS-based extended chime mode for location tracking, and special escort mode for route monitoring. By making the control panel universal, the patent avoids adding separate standalone systems, thereby managing complexity while providing comprehensive protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines GPS tracking, location verification, anomaly detection, and alert generation into a single integrated control panel system. By merging these functions into one centralized unit rather than distributing them across multiple devices, the system reduces overall complexity while maintaining comprehensive personal safety protection.
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AI summary
A system including a security system that protect a secured geographic area, a geographic location outside of the secured area of an authorized human user of the security system saved in a memory of the security system and a processor of the security system that tracks activity of the authorized user by geographic location outside of the secured area and generates an alert upon detecting that a difference between the tracked geographic location of the authorized user and saved location exceeds a threshold value.