Monitor Device for Interconnect Event Signals
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing event detectors, such as conventional smoke detectors, are often undiscoverable by network nodes and lack network connectivity, making it difficult to interface them with a network interface to monitor and analyze events detected by these devices.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for interfacing event detectors coupled by a common interconnect with a network interface, where a monitor device monitors interconnect signals indicative of events detected by the event detectors, analyzes these signals to generate interconnect data, and transmits this data to a remote client via the network interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional smoke detectors are interconnected by a common physical medium, then event detection and alarm generation are achieved, but network discoverability and remote monitoring capability are lost
Solution Approach 1:
A monitor device is introduced as an intermediary component that couples to the common interconnect and provides network interface functionality. The monitor device receives interconnect signals from event detectors, processes them, and transmits data over a network to remote clients, thereby enabling network connectivity without modifying the original event detector design.
2Device complexity
If event detectors operate independently on a common interconnect, then device complexity is minimized, but the ability to transmit data remotely over a network is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system is segmented into distinct functional components: event detectors that maintain simple interconnect operation, a monitor device that handles network communication, and remote clients that consume data. This segmentation allows each component to remain simple while the overall system gains network connectivity and remote monitoring capabilities.
3Ease of manufacture
If conventional event detectors are used without network interface, then ease of manufacture is maintained, but real-time remote monitoring and analysis capability is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The monitor device autonomously monitors interconnect signals, analyzes event data, and manages network communication without requiring manual intervention or modification of the event detectors themselves. This self-service approach maintains manufacturing simplicity while enabling automated remote monitoring and rapid response capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques and systems are provided for interfacing one or more event detectors coupled by a common interconnect with a network interface. Interconnect signals indicative of events detected by the one or more event detectors using sensor data are propagated on the common interconnect. A monitor device indirectly or directly couple to the common interconnect monitors the interconnect signals. Information about a first event detector of the one or more event detectors is inferred, in part, from the interconnect signals and transmitted via the network interface.