Remote Alarm Verification With Time-Limited Video Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing security systems often generate false alarms, leading to unnecessary police intervention due to the inability to verify the authenticity of alarm events remotely.
Innovation Solution
A system that facilitates remote verification of alarm events by providing end users and reviewers with security video clips and real-time images, allowing them to determine the validity of alarms using user devices and central stations, while ensuring privacy protection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If alarm services provider contacts owner to verify alarm events, then false alarms can be reduced, but response time and productivity deteriorate due to inability to contact owner
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an automated verification system as an intermediary between the alarm event and the alarm services provider. This system captures video clips from cameras, transmits them to a server, and automatically analyzes the footage to verify alarm events, eliminating the need for direct human contact while maintaining verification accuracy and improving response time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the manual verification process (human operator calling and interviewing) with an automated electronic system that captures, transmits, and analyzes video evidence. This substitution of mechanical human action with automated electronic processing resolves the contradiction by providing both accurate verification and rapid response.
2Reliability
If police or security company go to location to determine emergency, then alarm verification is achieved, but loss of time and resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary verification actions by automatically capturing and analyzing video evidence before dispatching police or security personnel. The system pre-verifies alarm events by examining video clips showing the scene before and during the alarm event, ensuring that first responders only visit locations with confirmed emergencies, thereby reducing unnecessary travel time and resource loss.
3Measurement precision
If video information is transmitted to verify alarms, then verification accuracy improves, but device complexity and data transmission requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential verification data needed for alarm verification - specifically, video clips captured at predetermined times (before and during the alarm event). By selecting and transmitting only these critical video segments rather than continuous video streams, the system achieves high verification accuracy while minimizing data transmission requirements and system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure relates to a system configured to facilitate remote verification of alarm events. Responsive to detection of an alarm event at a location of interest, clips of security video information and/or substantially real-time images may be presented to an end user on a user device associated with the end user, and/or to a reviewer via a central station, to facilitate determination of whether or not the detected alarm event is false. The system is configured to facilitate remote verification of alarm events by the end user and/or the reviewer while still protecting the privacy of the end user. The system may be configured to allow review of the clips and/or the substantially live images by the reviewer at the central station only responsive to detection of an alarm event, and only for a temporary period of time following the detection of the alarm event.