Remote Security Alarm Disarm Through Verified Milestone Conditions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing security systems often require manual disarming at the location, which can be difficult or impossible due to user inability to access the keypad or remember the PIN, leading to unnecessary noise and potential misuse of remote control by third parties.
Innovation Solution
A security system configured to automatically disarm based on a verified set of conditions, including receipt of a valid safeword and a request to exit the alarm state, ensuring secure and reliable disarming from a remote location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual disarming is required at the location, then security control is maintained, but user accessibility and ease of operation deteriorate when users cannot access the keypad or remember the PIN
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a remote computing device as an intermediary between the user and the security system. This intermediary communicates with both the user (via network) and the security system (via milestone events and commands), enabling remote disarming without direct access to the physical keypad while maintaining security through verified authentication milestones.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary verification of authentication milestones and system conditions before executing the disarm command. The computing device receives and validates multiple milestones (authentication, alarm state confirmation) before transmitting the disarm command, ensuring security is maintained while enabling remote operation.
2Ease of operation
If remote disarming is enabled, then user accessibility improves, but security control and risk of misuse by third parties worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback through milestone events that provide information about the current state of the security system and authentication status. The computing device receives milestones as feedback signals and uses this information to determine whether conditions are appropriate for remote disarming, creating a controlled feedback loop that maintains security while enabling remote access.
Solution Approach 2:
The computing device acts as a secure intermediary that mediates between the remote user and the security system. It validates authentication milestones and system conditions before allowing disarming, preventing direct unauthorized access while enabling legitimate remote operation through a controlled intermediate layer.
3Reliability
If automatic disarming based on milestones is implemented, then reliability and security control improve, but device complexity and system configuration worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The security system performs self-verification by automatically monitoring its own state through milestone events. The system autonomously tracks authentication status, alarm state, and other conditions without requiring external manual verification, reducing the need for complex external control mechanisms while maintaining high reliability through self-monitoring.
Data Source
AI summary
Security systems and methods. In one example, a method includes receiving, by a computing device, a plurality of milestones indicating events in a security system while the security system is in an alarm state at a location remote from the computing device, the plurality of milestones including first and second milestones indicative of (i) validity of authentication information, and (ii) a request for the security system to exit the alarm state, respectively. The method further includes generating, by the computing device, a command in response to receipt of the first and second milestones, the command including instructions to cause the security system to exit the alarm state upon receipt of the command by at least one device of the security system, and transmitting, by the computing device, the command to the at least one device to cause the security system to exit the alarm state.