Portable Security Integration for Monitoring Uncovered Areas
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing security systems are static and cannot effectively monitor areas without designated entry/exit points, such as parking garages or yards, and fail to provide prompt intervention during security breaches.
Innovation Solution
A central security system can be dynamically expanded by integrating portable security systems, allowing monitoring of unmonitored areas and triggering both local and remote alarms in response to breaches.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a static security system with predetermined sensor locations is used, then the system structure is simple and easy to operate, but it cannot effectively monitor areas without designated entry/exit points such as parking garages or yards
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the static security system into a dynamic one by enabling the base station to receive identification signals from portable security systems and dynamically add them as sensors to the monitored list. This allows the system to adapt its monitoring coverage to areas without predetermined sensor locations, such as parking garages or yards, while maintaining a relatively simple operational structure through automated identification and integration processes.
2Area of stationary object
If portable security systems are integrated into the central system, then monitoring coverage is expanded to unmonitored areas, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The portable security systems perform self-service by automatically transmitting their identification signals to the base station, which then autonomously adds them to the monitored sensor list. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for manual configuration or complex integration procedures, allowing the security coverage area to be expanded to unmonitored areas while keeping the system integration complexity manageable through automated processes.
3Reliability
If the security system operates with predetermined sensor locations only, then the system is easy to operate, but it fails to provide prompt intervention during security breaches in unmonitored areas
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adapts by receiving identification signals from portable security systems and automatically adding them to the monitored sensor list. This dynamic capability ensures that security breaches in previously unmonitored areas are detected and trigger prompt intervention through the central alarm system, thereby improving security response reliability while maintaining ease of operation through automated integration processes.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a base station of a first security system, an identification of a portable security system. The method further includes adding, by the base station, the portable security system as a sensor to a plurality of sensors monitored by the first security system. The method further includes configuring, by the base station, the portable security system in protect-mode, wherein the portable security system sounds an alarm in response to a sensor from the second system indicating a security-breach. The method further includes in response to the alarm from the portable security system, generating, by the base station, an alarm event of the first security system.