Property Monitoring Alert Correlation for Redundant Alert Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing property monitoring systems generate redundant and misleading alerts due to multiple actions occurring in quick succession, causing user distraction and unnecessary resource consumption.
Innovation Solution
A property monitoring system that consolidates alerts by identifying actions satisfying a similarity criterion, generating a combined alert for correlated events, and reducing redundant alerts through event correlation determination and alert consolidation engines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the system generates separate alerts for each detected action, then the user receives comprehensive information about all events, but the user experiences distraction and the system consumes excessive computational resources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple related alerts into a single consolidated alert that represents a sequence of actions as one event. The system identifies actions that are temporally and spatially correlated, then combines them into a unified alert notification, reducing the total number of alerts sent to the user while preserving information about all detected actions within the consolidated notification.
2Reliability
If the system sends multiple alerts for sequential actions, then the user is fully informed about each event, but the user becomes distracted and overwhelmed
Solution Approach 1:
The system consolidates multiple alerts related to the same event into a single notification, preventing user distraction while maintaining reliable event detection. The consolidated alert includes information about all actions in the sequence, ensuring the user remains fully informed without experiencing the harmful effect of repeated notifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary consolidation process between alert generation and user notification. This intermediary layer analyzes detected actions, determines their relationships, and consolidates them before presenting to the user, thereby filtering out the distracting effect of multiple separate alerts while preserving the underlying event information.
3Loss of information
If the system monitors and manages multiple individual alerts, then comprehensive event tracking is maintained, but computational resources are unnecessarily consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the monitoring and management of multiple individual alerts into a single consolidated alert structure. By tracking actions as part of a unified event rather than separate alerts, the system reduces computational overhead for alert management, status tracking, and resend operations while maintaining complete event tracking information.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for consolidation of alerts using a similarity criterion. One of the methods includes: receiving, from a sensor at a property for which a first action in a sequence of actions was detected by a second sensor at the property, data that identifies a second action at the property; determining whether the second action satisfies a similarity criterion for an action in the sequence of actions that define an event at the property; and in response to determining that the second action satisfies the similarity criterion for the action in the sequence of actions that define the event at the property, performing an event operation for the event at the property.