Security System Audio Volume Control for Alarm Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Security systems often experience false alarms, which can lead to unnecessary dispatches of emergency services and disruptions, highlighting the need for improved methods to differentiate between genuine and false threats.
Innovation Solution
The security system incorporates a processor-controlled volume reduction mechanism for entertainment devices within the secured area, using transceivers and volume control processors to automatically mute or reduce audio output from these devices upon detection of a potential threat, facilitating clear communication between the central monitoring station and occupants to verify the nature of the alarm.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If security systems activate alarms upon sensor activation, then threat detection capability is improved, but false alarm rate increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces audio analysis as an intermediary verification step between sensor activation and alarm confirmation. The system analyzes audio signals to detect voices or sounds that would indicate a genuine threat, using this intermediate assessment to filter out false alarms while maintaining reliable threat detection
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring audio environments and using voice detection results to modulate alarm responses. When voices are detected during alarm events, this feedback confirms genuine threats; when no voices are present, it suggests false alarms, allowing the system to adjust its response accordingly
2Ease of operation
If audio devices operate at full volume during security events, then entertainment quality is maintained, but communication clarity between monitoring station and occupants deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making audio device volume adjustable based on security event status. During verified genuine threats, the system dynamically reduces entertainment audio volume to ensure clear communication between the monitoring station and occupants, while restoring full volume when no threats are present or false alarms are confirmed
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the volume parameter of audio devices based on threat verification status. When voices indicating genuine threats are detected, the volume parameter is reduced to prioritize communication clarity; when false alarms are identified, the volume parameter returns to normal levels
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AI summary
An apparatus including a security system protecting a secured area, a processor of the security system providing a voice connection between a control panel of the security system located within the secured area and a remotely located central monitoring station, the processor automatically providing notification of activation of the provided voice connection, an audio device providing audio entertainment within the secured area, a wireless interface providing a communication channel between the security system and audio entertainment system and a processor of the audio device receiving the automatic notification of activation of the voice connection from the processor of the security system through the wireless interface and automatically reducing a volume of the audio entertainment provided by the audio device within the secured area.