Connected Security System Trigger Event Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional security systems lack granularity in distinguishing between false alarms and legitimate threats, often triggering alarms unnecessarily, making it difficult to isolate false alarms from actual threats within an environment.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize connected devices to detect trigger events and execute security protocols, such as presenting security questions to unverified users, to differentiate between false alarms and legitimate threats by providing precise context and executing appropriate responses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional security systems trigger an alarm upon detecting movement, then the system responds to all detected events, but false alarms cannot be distinguished from legitimate threats
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the response process into multiple stages: initial detection, context gathering through security questions, verification, and then alarm execution. This segmentation allows the system to handle different types of events differently, improving reliability without overwhelming complexity at any single stage.
Solution Approach 2:
Security questions serve as an intermediary mechanism between detection and alarm execution. Instead of directly triggering an alarm upon movement detection, the system introduces security questions as a mediating step to verify the legitimacy of the detected event, thereby distinguishing false alarms from real threats.
2Reliability
If security systems present security questions to unverified users, then false alarms can be distinguished from legitimate threats, but the system requires additional verification steps
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial verification through security questions only when needed - specifically when movement is detected but the threat level is uncertain. Not all detected events require full verification, allowing the system to balance reliability improvement with time efficiency by applying verification selectively rather than universally.
3Adaptability or versatility
If security systems execute multiple security protocols, then appropriate responses can be taken for different threat levels, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the security protocol execution based on the verification results from security questions. The protocol selection is not fixed but adapts to the specific situation - moving from initial detection to appropriate response levels based on accumulated information, thereby achieving versatility without rigid complexity.
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AI summary
The various implementations described herein include methods, devices and systems for detecting trigger events and executing security protocols. In one aspect, a method is performed at a server system that is coupled to a smart device system and a client device, the smart device system located at a premises. The server system: (1) detects an unverified user within the premises based on data collected by the smart device system, wherein the data is communicated to the server system via the wide area networks; (2) provides a notification regarding the unverified user to authorized users via the wide area networks; (3) receives, from a first authorized user, a first user input in response to the notification; and (4) in response to receiving the first user input, executes a security operation at the premises based on the first user input.