Security Camera with Smoke and Motion Detectors
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional security cameras lack the ability to automatically detect and report emergency conditions like smoke, fire, or intrusion to pre-set cellular numbers with precise location information, relying on manual intervention and lacking integrated detectors and communication capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A network security camera with inbuilt smoke and motion detectors, a digital audio recorder, and a voice synthesizer that automatically sends pictures and pre-recorded audio or text messages to pre-set cellular numbers via any available telecommunication network, along with an external remote control for programming and operation, enabling immediate emergency reporting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional security cameras are used, then basic surveillance is provided, but automatic emergency detection and reporting capabilities are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple detection functions (smoke detection, motion detection) and communication capabilities (picture sending, audio transmission, text messaging) into a single integrated camera system. This merging approach enables automatic emergency reporting while consolidating what would otherwise be separate devices into one unified unit.
Solution Approach 2:
The camera system is designed to perform multiple functions: it acts as both a security camera for surveillance and an emergency detection device with smoke and motion sensors. It can also function as a communication device by sending pictures, audio, and text messages. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by making one device serve multiple purposes without requiring additional separate systems.
2Loss of time
If manual intervention is used for emergency reporting, then simple camera operation is maintained, but response time is delayed
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring communication channels and detection thresholds before emergencies occur. When smoke or motion is detected, the camera automatically initiates the reporting sequence without waiting for manual intervention, thus reducing response time while maintaining ease of use through pre-set automation.
Solution Approach 2:
The camera system serves itself by automatically detecting emergencies through integrated sensors, capturing evidence (pictures and audio), and transmitting reports without requiring human operation. This self-service capability eliminates the time loss associated with manual intervention while keeping the system simple to operate through automatic functionality.
3Ease of operation
If integrated detectors and communication capabilities are added to cameras, then automatic emergency reporting is enabled, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges detectors, communication modules, and processing units into an integrated camera system. This consolidation enables automatic emergency reporting functionality while reducing the number of separate components the user must manage, thereby maintaining ease of operation despite the enhanced capabilities.
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AI summary
This invention is more particular to a camera that is fully equip with an inbuilt motion and smoke detector and a digital audio recorder and a vice synthesizer and a text generator, the camera is specially design to be set by the user to capture any emergency condition detected by any of the said inbuilt detectors, and automatically send picture or pictures of the emergency along with an audio speech pre-recorder by the user or a written text pre-enter by the user at the top of the picture or bottom, side or middle of the captured image, the voice synthesizer, or the text generator states the exact emergency which can be fire or intrusion, why the pre-recorder audio or text entered by the user states the address of the emergency both information combined together (the emergency and the address) is sent out by the camera to one or more preset number of a cellular telephone of the user choice, cellular telephone that can receive the picture with the text or the audio by means of any available telecommunication network, the picture sent by the camera can be a still picture or a motion picture and the camera can be a visible light camera or an infrared camera.