Security Alarm Monitoring With Context-Based False Alarm Screening
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing security monitoring systems often trigger false alarms without comparing the trigger reason to predefined criteria, wasting time and resources, and do not provide users with efficient methods to terminate false alarms or access necessary information.
Innovation Solution
A method that includes detecting an alarm event, determining deviations from predefined criteria, transmitting alert notifications with relevant information, and allowing users to terminate false alarms using predefined passcodes or biometrics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If the security system triggers alarms immediately when sensors are tripped, then the response speed is improved, but the number of false alarms increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by comparing sensor trigger reasons against predefined criteria before actually triggering the alarm. This preliminary verification step filters out false triggers while maintaining the ability to respond quickly to genuine threats, resolving the contradiction between fast response and accurate alarm classification.
2Loss of information
If the security system provides detailed information about alarm triggers to users, then the user's ability to assess false alarms is improved, but the information transmission complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The notification is segmented into distinct components: alarm trigger information, predefined criteria comparison results, and user action options. This segmentation allows the system to provide comprehensive information in an organized manner that users can easily process, reducing the perceived complexity while maintaining information completeness.
3Ease of operation
If the security system provides multiple methods for users to terminate false alarms, then the user convenience is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The notification message serves multiple functions simultaneously: it informs users of the alarm trigger, provides criteria comparison results, offers termination options, and requests user assessment. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate interface elements, maintaining ease of operation while managing system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods are disclosed that, in some aspects, provide detecting an alarm event, determining whether the alarm event is a deviation from predefined criteria, and transmitting an alert notification to users of the security system if the alarm event is a deviation from the predefined criteria. The predefined criteria may relate to the location or type of one or more sensors of the security system, the location of users of the security system, the time of day, activities within the premises, and/or behavioral patterns of the users learned by the security system. Information transmitted in the alert notification may relate to the location of one or more users of the security system, the data recorded by one or more sensors of the security system, the state of alert of the security system, and/or confidential information required to terminate the alarm event.