Smart Home Mode Switching for Security Monitoring

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional home security systems often incorrectly identify individuals such as housekeeping workers as suspicious persons, leading to unnecessary surveillance, which is inconvenient and inefficient.

Innovation Solution

A smart home system with a system server that manages modes, including a 'working mode' for authorized personnel like housekeeping workers, allowing controlled monitoring and operation of devices like smart locks and cameras, based on pre-set time frames and user permissions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional home security systems monitor all individuals in the home, then security monitoring coverage is improved, but false identification of authorized personnel (such as housekeeping workers) as suspicious persons increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity monitoring coverageVSAvoididentification accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the monitoring system into different operational modes (surveillance mode and working mode) that are activated based on the presence and identity of specific individuals. This segmentation allows the system to apply different monitoring levels to different situations, thereby improving identification accuracy while maintaining comprehensive security coverage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamic mode switching that adapts the monitoring behavior based on real-time conditions. When authorized personnel such as housekeeping workers are detected, the system dynamically transitions from surveillance mode to working mode, adjusting the monitoring strategy to reduce false identifications while maintaining security oversight.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Speed

If home security systems activate surveillance mode for all unauthorized individuals, then security response speed is improved, but convenience for authorized personnel (such as housekeeping workers) deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity response speedVSAvoidconvenience for authorized personnel

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs preliminary action by pre-registering authorized personnel (such as housekeeping workers) in the system before they arrive at the home. When these pre-registered individuals are detected, the system immediately recognizes their authorized status and activates working mode instead of surveillance mode, ensuring both rapid security response and convenience for authorized personnel.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If the system maintains continuous surveillance mode, then security monitoring reliability is improved, but energy consumption and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity monitoring reliabilityVSAvoidenergy consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements periodic action through mode switching between surveillance mode and working mode based on the presence of different individuals. Instead of maintaining continuous surveillance mode with high energy consumption, the system periodically adjusts its operational state, activating full surveillance only when necessary and transitioning to lower-power working mode when authorized personnel are present, thereby reducing overall energy consumption while maintaining security reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS11869296B2Equipment controlling apparatus and equipment controlling method

Publication Date: 2024.01.09 SONY GROUP CORP

AI summary

Provided is an equipment controlling apparatus that includes a storage section that stores a time frame within which a setting of operation of a device disposed in a predetermined region is to be changed, and a control section that controls the device to change operation between a time frame set in advance in the storage section and a time frame different from the time frame.