Granted Patent B2

US 11,004,326 · App. 16/292,551 · Granted May 11, 2021

Inventor: William Louis Scheer (Coral Springs, FL)

Assignee: Johnson Controls Security Solutions LLC

G08B25/006H04L67/10H04L67/12

Abstract

Claims (34)

1. A system for monitoring a location, comprising:

a local server at the location, wherein the local server comprises a hardware control block having a hardware processor in communication with a hardware memory, wherein the local server comprises a housing configured to be positioned on or underneath a desk at the location; and

a security system at the location and in communication with the local server, wherein the security system is monitored with the local server, wherein the security system comprises a video monitoring sub-system and a card access sub-system,

wherein the local server is configured to identify an event occurring within the security system within normal business hours as a standard event and respond to the standard event by automatically performing a standard task at the location without contacting a surveillance server of a monitoring center that is remote from the location, wherein the standard event is a detected motion and a card swipe at an entrance of an office at the monitored location during the normal business hours, wherein the standard task comprises the local server sending an email to an individual associated with the location,

wherein the local server is configured to identify an attempted card access within the security system by a tracked individual after the normal business hours as an alarm event and respond to the alarm event by automatically performing an alarm task of activating a camera proximate to the location of a card access device to obtain a picture of an area while the card access device is engaged at the location and contacting via an email the individual associated with the location, wherein the email including date and time of the attempted card access and identity of the tracked individual,

wherein the local server is configured to identify an entrance opened within the security system after hours without the card access device being engaged as an emergency event and respond to the emergency event by performing an emergency task including contacting emergency personnel through the surveillance server, wherein the emergency task comprises the local server sending an email to the individual associated with the location, and

wherein the standard event, the standard task, the alarm event, the alarm task, the emergency event, and the emergency task are defined by the individual associated with the location and programmed into the local server.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the security system further comprises one or more of a business sub-system or a home sub-system.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the local server generates an incident report of one or more of the standard event, the alarm event, or the emergency event, and wherein the local server sends the incident report to the individual associated with the location.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the local server further comprises a database, wherein the standard task, the alarm task, and the emergency task are stored in the memory, and wherein the hardware processor is configured to store incident reports in the database.

5. A system for monitoring a location, comprising:

a security system at the location;

a local server at the location and in communication with the security system, wherein the local server comprises a hardware control block having a hardware processor in communication with a hardware memory, wherein the local server comprises a housing configured to be positioned on or underneath a desk at the location; and

a monitoring center that is remote from the location, wherein the security system is monitored with the local server, wherein the security system comprises a video monitoring sub-system and a card access sub-system,

wherein the local server is configured to identify an event occurring within the security system within normal business hours as a standard event and respond to the standard event by automatically performing a standard task at the location without contacting a surveillance server of the monitoring center, wherein the standard event is a detected motion and a card swipe at an entrance of an office at the monitored location during the normal business hours, wherein the standard task comprises the local server sending an email to an individual associated with the location,

wherein the local server is configured to identify an attempted card access within the security system by a tracked individual after the normal business hours as an alarm event and respond to the alarm event by automatically performing an alarm task of activating a camera proximate to the location of a card access device to obtain a picture of an area while the card access device is engaged at the location and contacting via an email the individual associated with the location, wherein the email including date and time of the attempted card access and identity of the tracked individual,

wherein the local server is configured to identify an entrance opened within the security system after hours without the card access device being engaged as an emergency event and respond to the emergency event by performing an emergency task including contacting emergency personnel through the surveillance server, wherein the emergency task comprises the local server sending an email to the individual associated with the location, and

wherein the standard event, the standard task, the alarm event, the alarm task, the emergency event, and the emergency task are defined by the individual associated with the location and programmed into the local server.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the security system further comprises one or more of a business sub-system or a home sub-system.

7. The system of claim 5 , wherein one or both of the local server and the monitoring center generate incident reports of at least one of the standard event, the alarm event, and the emergency event, and wherein one or both of the local server or the monitoring center send the incident reports to the individual associated with the location.

8. The system of claim 5 , wherein the local server further comprises a database, wherein the standard event, the standard task, the alarm event, the alarm task, the emergency event, and the emergency task are stored in the hardware memory, and wherein the hardware processor is configured to store incident reports in the database.

9. A method of monitoring a location, comprising:

communicatively connecting a security system at the location to a local server at the location, wherein the local server comprises a hardware control block having a hardware processor in communication with a hardware memory, wherein the local server comprises a housing configured to be positioned on or underneath a desk at the location;

monitoring the security system with the local server, wherein the security system is monitored with the local server, wherein the security system comprises a video monitoring sub-system and a card access sub-system;

identifying, by the local server, an event occurring within the security system within normal business hours as a standard event;

responding, by the local server, to the standard event by automatically performing a standard task at the location without contacting a surveillance server of a monitoring center that is remote from the location, wherein the standard event is a detected motion and a card swipe at an entrance of an office at the monitored location during the normal business hours, wherein the standard task comprises the local server sending an email to an individual associated with the location;

identifying, by the local server, an attempted card access within the security system by a tracked individual after the normal business hours as an alarm event;

responding, by the local server, to the alarm event by automatically performing an alarm task of activating a camera proximate to the location of a card access device to obtain a picture of an area while the card access device is engaged at the location and contacting via an email the individual associated with the location, wherein the email including date and time of the attempted card access and identity of the tracked individual;

identifying, by the local server, an entrance opened within the security system after hours without the card access device being engaged as an emergency event; and

responding, by the local server, to the emergency event by performing an emergency task including contacting emergency personnel through the surveillance server, wherein the emergency task comprises the local server sending an email to the individual associated with the location, and wherein the standard event, the standard task, the alarm event, the alarm task, the emergency event, and the emergency task are defined by the individual associated with the location and programmed into the local server.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the security system further comprises one or more of a business sub-system or a home sub-system.

11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

generating an incident report of at least one of the standard event, the alarm event, and the emergency event; and

sending the incident report to the individual associated with the location.

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