Home Sensor Alerts for Unsafe Conditions During Resident Absence
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Solution Overview
Problem
Residents of a home environment often fail to detect unsafe or unhealthy conditions developing in their homes, leading to severe consequences when these conditions become apparent, as they may not be physically present to notice the issues until they are extensive and costly to mitigate.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that monitor and analyze sensor data from home environments to identify unsafe or unhealthy conditions, and generate alerts when such conditions are detected, especially when the resident is not physically present, utilizing a combination of local and remote processors, sensors, and communication devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If residents manually monitor their home environment, then they can detect unsafe conditions, but they may not be physically present to notice issues until they become severe and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an automated monitoring system with sensors and processors as intermediaries between the home environment and the resident. These intermediaries continuously detect unsafe conditions (water leaks, temperature extremes, air quality issues) and automatically send alerts to the resident's mobile device, eliminating the need for the resident to be physically present to notice issues.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where sensors monitor environmental parameters, processors analyze the data to detect unsafe conditions, and alerts are sent back to the resident. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures timely detection and notification of issues before they escalate.
2Reliability
If automated sensor monitoring is implemented, then timely detection of unsafe conditions is achieved, but system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring system is divided into separate functional modules: environmental sensors for detecting specific parameters, processors for analyzing sensor data and identifying unsafe conditions, and communication devices for sending alerts. This segmentation allows each component to perform its function efficiently and enables selective deployment based on specific monitoring needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is designed to monitor multiple types of environmental conditions (water presence, temperature, air quality) using a unified architecture. The same sensor-processor-alert framework handles different detection scenarios, reducing overall system complexity through standardized multi-functional design.
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AI summary
Techniques for generating alerts related to unsafe/unhealthy home conditions may include monitoring sensor data associated with a home environment over a period of time; analyzing the sensor data associated over the period in order to identify an unsafe/unhealthy condition associated with the home environment over the period; obtaining sensor data associated with a resident of the home environment over the period; determining that the resident of the home environment is not physically present at the home environment over the period; upon identifying an unsafe/unhealthy condition associated with the home environment over the period and determining that the resident of the home environment is not physically present at the home environment over the period, generating an alert indicating the identified unsafe or unhealthy condition associated with the home environment over the period; and transmitting the alert to a computing device associated with the resident of the home environment.