Multimedia Device Security Monitoring via Remote Premises Diagrams
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional consumer-level physical security monitoring systems are inadequate for quickly conveying alarm status information, often requiring users to navigate to a central alarm panel, which can be inconvenient and risky, especially during security breaches.
Innovation Solution
A networked television system with a security monitoring modular card that provides a graphical user interface for displaying a premises diagram and alarm status, allowing users to assess security conditions remotely and take actions through a user-friendly interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a central alarm panel is used to display alarm status, then the alarm status can be displayed, but the user must navigate to a centralized location which is inconvenient and potentially dangerous
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements remote display devices (televisions, computers, mobile devices) that receive and display copies of alarm status data from the central alarm panel. This allows users to view alarm status information at multiple distributed locations without physically accessing the central alarm panel, thereby maintaining information availability while improving accessibility and user safety.
2Loss of information
If conventional alphanumeric displays are used in alarm panels, then information can be displayed, but the display capability is limited and cannot convey sufficient information rapidly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from one-dimensional alphanumeric text displays to two-dimensional graphical user interfaces with visual icons, color-coded status indicators, and spatial representations of monitored premises. This dimensional enhancement allows multiple alarm status data points to be displayed simultaneously in a visually intuitive format, enabling users to rapidly assess complete system status at a glance rather than reading through text descriptions.
3Reliability
If alarm sensors are wired to a central alarm panel, then security monitoring is achieved, but the system complexity and wiring requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the display and user interface functions from the central alarm panel structure and implements them as separate remote devices (televisions, computers, mobile devices). The alarm sensors remain wired to the central panel, but the complex wiring is isolated to only what is necessary for sensor connectivity, while the graphical interface components are distributed to existing display devices throughout the premises, thereby reducing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A system includes a multimedia data interface to receive data representative of one or more multimedia channels and a display interface to a display device, the display interface to provide processed multimedia data. The system further includes a security control module to receive alarm sensor data associated with one or more alarm sensors and an alarm premises display module coupled to the security control module and the display interface. The alarm premises display module includes logic to provide a premises diagram for display via the display interface, wherein the premises diagram illustrates a layout of monitored premises and logic to provide a representation of an alarm status of one or more premises locations based on the alarm sensor information.