IP Camera Alert Tagging for Security Control Panel
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional security systems face high costs and increased communication burdens due to the need for high-capacity storage and processing to transmit multimedia alert messages, such as video clips, from security devices to control panels and then to users, which is inefficient and costly.
Innovation Solution
A security system that uses an IP camera to generate a tag number for captured images or video clips during alert events, allowing direct transmission of alert messages, including multimedia content, to user terminal devices via an IP network without requiring the security control panel to store or process these files, thereby reducing the need for high-capacity memory and processing power.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multimedia files (video clips, audio clips) are transferred to the security control panel for processing and sending to users, then users receive comprehensive alert notifications with multimedia information, but the security control panel requires high-capacity memory and high-performance microprocessor, increasing system cost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the multimedia file processing function from the security control panel and relocates it to the security device. The security device now generates alert messages with multimedia content locally and transmits them directly to users via the network, eliminating the need for the control panel to store and process large video files, thus reducing hardware requirements while maintaining multimedia notification capability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary approach where the security device acts as an independent processing unit that generates and packages alert messages with multimedia content, then transmits them through the network to users. This intermediary structure allows the control panel to remain simple while still enabling comprehensive multimedia alert delivery
2Productivity
If traditional event reporting scheme transfers data/files from security device to security control panel, then the control panel can process and send alerts to users, but communication burden increases and data transferring time is extended
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the alert message generation and packaging function from the control panel and places it in the security device. The security device now directly generates complete alert messages with multimedia content and transmits them to users through the network, eliminating the intermediate transfer step through the control panel and reducing overall data transfer time
Solution Approach 2:
The security device performs preliminary processing of alert data and packaging of multimedia files locally before transmission. By preparing and packaging the complete alert message at the source (security device) rather than receiving and processing it at the control panel, the system reduces the amount of data that needs to be transferred through the network, thereby decreasing transfer time and improving reporting efficiency
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AI summary
A system and method for reporting alert events to a terminal device of a user of the security system. In one aspect, a security device of the system generates data of an image or a video clip indicative of an alert event in a detection zone of the security system and further generates a message including an indicium associated with the data. A security control panel of the system receives the message including an indicium associated with the data, identifies an address associated with the terminal device, and sends an instruction message including the indicium and the address to the security device. Upon receiving the instruction message, the security device generates an alert message including the data based on the indicium, and sends the alert message to the address of the user device.