Smart Home Sensor Network for Real-Time Security Scoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current smart home security systems lack an effective method to calculate and report a comprehensive security score, which is essential for assessing and improving home security, as they often rely on manual evaluations and do not integrate seamlessly with various smart devices to provide real-time security assessments.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize intelligent, multi-sensing, network-connected devices to create a mesh network, integrating with a central server or cloud-computing system to collect and analyze data from various smart devices, such as thermostats, hazard detectors, doorbells, and entryway interfaces, to calculate a security score based on predefined criteria, enhancing home security through automated reporting and alerts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual security evaluations are used, then system complexity is reduced, but measurement precision and real-time monitoring capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
A central server acts as an intermediary between multiple smart home devices and the security evaluation system. The server collects data from various devices (motion detectors, door locks, cameras), processes this information, and generates comprehensive security scores. This intermediary approach enables precise measurements without requiring each individual device to perform complex security analysis, thus resolving the contradiction between measurement precision and system complexity.
2Measurement precision
If real-time security monitoring is implemented, then security score accuracy improves, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic security assessments rather than continuous monitoring. The central server collects data from smart devices at specific intervals and updates security scores periodically. This approach maintains real-time security assessment capability while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to continuous monitoring, as devices can enter low-power states between assessment cycles.
3Reliability
If comprehensive data collection from multiple devices is performed, then security score reliability improves, but device complexity and data processing requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The security evaluation system is segmented into modular components: individual smart devices collect specific types of data (motion, door status, camera footage), the central server aggregates and processes this data, and separate modules generate security scores and provide recommendations. This segmentation allows comprehensive data collection from multiple devices while managing complexity through modular architecture, where each component has a specific function rather than one complex system handling all tasks.
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AI summary
This patent specification relates to apparatus, systems, methods, and related computer program products for providing home security objectives. More particularly, this patent specification relates to a plurality of devices, including intelligent, multi-sensing, network-connected devices, that communicate with each other and/or with a central server or a cloud-computing system to provide any of a variety of useful home security objectives.