Security Display Rules Manager for Life-Safety Event Prioritization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current security systems lack a centralized rules manager to prioritize life-safety events over non-life safety activities, potentially allowing critical alerts to be overridden by less urgent information.
Innovation Solution
A software-based priority and rules manager with an application program interface and table parameters that enables external applications to display data while maintaining security system control, ensuring life-safety events are prioritized and handled appropriately.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If external applications are allowed to display data on the security system display, then the display utilization and information access are improved, but the risk of critical security events being overridden by non-critical information increases
Solution Approach 1:
A rules manager component is introduced as an intermediary between external applications and the security system display. This mediator evaluates events from both the security system and external applications, applies prioritization rules, and determines display presentation. The rules manager ensures critical security events maintain priority while allowing non-critical external information to be displayed appropriately, thus resolving the contradiction between display versatility and event prioritization reliability.
2Reliability
If the security system maintains centralized control over all display content, then event prioritization and system reliability are improved, but the ability of external applications to independently display information is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display control functionality is segmented into distinct components: the rules manager that handles prioritization logic, the event sources (security system and external applications), and the display output. This segmentation allows external applications to independently provide information while the rules manager separately manages prioritization. The segmentation enables both application independence and centralized prioritization control to coexist without conflict.
3Reliability
If a rules manager is implemented to prioritize security events, then system control and event handling are improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The rules manager is designed as a universal component that handles multiple types of events from both the security system and external applications through a single prioritization framework. Rather than creating separate control mechanisms for different event sources, the rules manager provides a unified approach to event prioritization and display control, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining reliable control.
Data Source
AI summary
The inventive system and method for enabling external applications to display data in the security system has a table with a plurality of rules and an interface for processing the external application data for display, such that when an alert occurs in the security system, one of the rules defines a response to the alert and the device performs the response. This system and method protects the integrity of the security system as well as allows the display of data by external applications on the security system.