Networked Security Systems Intruder Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional security systems are self-contained and only alert property owners of intrusions at their own properties, failing to provide warnings for potential threats from neighboring properties, and they lack the ability to track intruders after they leave the property, making it difficult for law enforcement to apprehend perpetrators.
Innovation Solution
The integration of security systems across multiple properties in a network, where A/V recording and communication devices share intrusion data to alert users at other properties, analyze threat proximity and level, and link with public security systems to track suspects through publicly-accessible cameras.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If security systems are made self-contained and independent, then device complexity is reduced and ease of operation is improved, but the ability to provide regional security coverage and track intruders across properties is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple independent security systems into a networked geographic security system where devices at different properties communicate with each other. The system merges individual property security functions with regional coordination capabilities, allowing intruder tracking across multiple properties while maintaining the operational simplicity of individual devices through automated network protocols.
2Adaptability or versatility
If security systems share data and communicate across multiple properties, then regional security coverage and intruder tracking capability are improved, but device complexity and information loss are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a communication network and data sharing protocol as an intermediary layer between individual security systems. This mediator handles the complexity of inter-property communication, data synchronization, and coordinate sharing, allowing individual devices to remain relatively simple while achieving complex regional security coverage through the mediating network infrastructure.
3Loss of information
If security systems alert only local property owners, then information loss is minimized and ease of operation is maintained, but the ability to provide preventive warnings to neighboring properties is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments security information dissemination into different levels: local property alerts and regional preventive warnings. The system divides the alert propagation into controlled segments where intrusion data is selectively shared with neighboring properties based on proximity and threat level, preventing information overload while maintaining preventive warning capabilities through structured information distribution.
Data Source
AI summary
The application is directed to techniques and processes for integrating multiple security systems. For instance, a system may receive first data from a first security system, where the first data indicates that the first security system detected a security event. The system may then analyze the first data to determine a type of the security event, a time frame of the security event, and/or a threat level of the security event. Based at least in part on the analyzing, the system may determine a security procedure for a second security system. The second security system may be located proximate to the first security system and/or may be included in a same security system network as the first security system. The security procedure may include changing a mode of the second security system and/or causing an electronic device of the second security system to generate image data.