ML Security Automation for Motion-Triggered IoT Response

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Solution Overview

Problem

Security systems often require manual user input for managing alerts and settings, leading to inefficiencies and failures when unattended, and pre-programmed automation is limiting.

Innovation Solution

A security system utilizing machine learning to dynamically automate responses based on sensor data, user data, and environmental data to predict user behavior and activate IoT devices accordingly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Extent of automation

If pre-programmed automation rules are used in security systems, then the system can respond to motion events, but the automation is limiting and requires manual user input for managing alerts and settings

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomation capabilityVSAvoidflexibility of response
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts automation rules based on learned user behavior patterns rather than using fixed pre-programmed rules. The neural network continuously adapts the security system's response to motion events by learning from historical user interactions, allowing the automation to evolve and become more flexible over time while reducing manual input requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If manual user input is required for managing alerts and settings, then user control is maintained, but inefficiencies and failures occur when unattended

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser controlVSAvoidsystem performance when unattended
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The security system performs self-service by automatically learning user preferences and behavior patterns, then autonomously making decisions about alert management and system settings without requiring manual user input. The neural network enables the system to serve itself by predicting appropriate user responses to motion events and automatically executing those responses, ensuring reliable operation even when unattended.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Adaptability or versatility

If a neural network is used to predict user behavior, then context-aware automation is achieved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontext-awarenessVSAvoidsystem architecture
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The neural network acts as an intermediary layer between motion event detection and system response execution. It processes sensor data and user behavior patterns to predict user intentions, translating complex contextual information into actionable automation decisions. This intermediary approach enables context-aware automation while managing system complexity by encapsulating the AI processing in a dedicated predictive module.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20260030890A1Dynamic automation of security system using machine learning
Publication Date: 2026.01.29 ROKU INC
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AI summary

Aspects of the disclosed technology provide solutions for dynamically automating a security system using machine learning. An example method can include receiving sensor data collected by a sensor installed outside of an indoor location. The sensor data may include an indication of a motion event occurring within a predetermined distance from the indoor location. The method can include, based on user data associated with the indoor location, predicting, using a neural network, a user behavior in response to the motion event. The method can further include, based on the predicted user behavior, determining, using the neural network, an action comprising a response to the motion event implemented by one or more devices and automatically activating at least one of the device(s) to perform the action.