Targeted Visitor Notifications to Reduce Unnecessary Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing visitor notification systems often indiscriminately alert all residents or employees in multi-person households or offices, unnecessarily disturbing those not intended to interact with the visitor.
Innovation Solution
A system that determines the likely identity of the visitor using facial recognition, object recognition, and historical interaction data to selectively notify a target person, reducing unnecessary alerts and improving efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If all residents are notified indiscriminately about visitor arrivals, then no resident is missed who might need to interact with the visitor, but unnecessary disturbances occur to residents not intended to interact with the visitor
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system segments residents into different groups based on their relationship to the visitor and the purpose of the visit. Instead of notifying all residents uniformly, the system divides them into target residents who should be notified and non-target residents who should not be disturbed, thereby resolving the contradiction between reliable notification and avoiding unnecessary disturbances.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different notification qualities to different residents based on their specific context. Target residents receive notifications with full details and immediate alert, while non-target residents receive no notification at all. This localized differentiation ensures that notification reliability is maintained for those who need it while eliminating unnecessary disturbances for others.
2Ease of operation
If a designated resident is always notified regardless of who the visitor is there to see, then the notification system is simple to operate, but the visitor may not be connected with the intended resident
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system incorporates feedback mechanisms that allow residents to indicate their availability and intent to interact with visitors. The system uses this feedback to dynamically adjust which residents are notified, ensuring that the visitor is connected with the intended resident while maintaining ease of operation through automated decision-making based on resident preferences.
Solution Approach 2:
Residents pre-configure their preferences and availability in advance before visitor arrivals occur. This preliminary action allows the system to automatically determine the appropriate resident to notify without requiring complex real-time decisions, thus maintaining ease of operation while preserving visitor intent information.
3Reliability
If multiple residents are notified about every visitor arrival, then the system ensures someone is available to greet the visitor, but resource usage increases and response efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the notification process to identify and notify only the single most appropriate resident for each visitor arrival. By dividing the resident population into targeted and non-targeted groups based on visitor intent and resident availability, the system maintains reliable visitor greeting availability while eliminating the resource waste and response delays associated with notifying multiple residents.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing targeted notifications. One of the methods includes determining a likely identity of a visitor who arrived at a property that is associated with two or more people, selecting, from the two or more people, a target person using the likely identity of the visitor, and sending, to a device of the target person, a notification that indicates that the visitor arrived at the property.