Doorbell Visitor Sharing for Privacy-Aware Community Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing doorbell systems do not effectively allow for the sharing of visitor information among multiple users, limiting the ability to alert neighbors about suspicious visitors and enhance community safety.
Innovation Solution
A doorbell system that enables the creation of a user group where users can share visitor information, including pictures and traits, among remote computing devices, even if they are not directly communicatively coupled, using a database to facilitate this communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If doorbell systems share visitor information among all users in a community, then community safety is enhanced through coordinated alerts, but user privacy is compromised and notification overload occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements selective information sharing where different users receive different subsets of visitor information based on their specific needs and preferences. Each user can customize which neighbors' visitor alerts they receive, allowing local customization of information flow while maintaining overall system coordination for safety.
2Reliability
If doorbell systems share visitor information among all users in a community, then community safety is enhanced through coordinated alerts, but the system complexity increases due to management overhead
Solution Approach 1:
The doorbell system performs multiple functions within a single integrated platform: it captures visitor information, transmits alerts to remote devices, enables selective sharing among users, and provides a unified interface for managing community safety. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate systems and simplifies overall complexity while enhancing safety capabilities.
3Reliability
If doorbells are directly communicatively coupled for information sharing, then communication reliability is improved, but the ease of operation decreases due to direct connection requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a central server or cloud-based intermediary that mediates communication between doorbells and remote devices. This intermediary handles data transmission, storage, and distribution, allowing users to share visitor information without requiring direct communicative coupling between devices. The intermediary simplifies operations while maintaining reliable communication through standardized protocols.
Data Source
AI summary
Doorbells can send data to each other to enable a first doorbell user to warn a second doorbell user regarding a suspicious visitor. A first user can indicate a first trait of a visitor via a first remote computing device. The first user can create a user group to enable the members of the user group to use their doorbells to take pictures of suspicious visitors and to send the pictures of the suspicious visitors to other members of the user group.