IP Library Granted Patent US 11,810,437
Granted Patent B2
US 11,810,437 · App. 17/525,608 · Granted Nov 7, 2023

Integrated security for multiple access control systems

Inventors: Noah Robert Weingart (Arlington, VA); Abraham Joseph Kinney (Vienna, VA); Fabian Emilio Philipe Camargo (Falls Church, VA); Andrei Aurelian Furtuna (Annandale, VA); David James Hutz (Herndon, VA)
Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
G08B13/22G08B21/24
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Patent No.
US 11,810,437
App. No.
17/525,608
Granted
Nov 7, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems and techniques are described for an integrated security environment to monitor activities at a commercial facility and a residential facility. In some implementations, a monitoring system monitors a property that includes one or more sensors located at the property and generate sensor data. A monitor control unit receives and analyzes the sensor data. Based on analyzing the sensor data, the monitor control unit determines that an event has likely occurred at the property and generates data indicating that the event has likely occurred at the property. A monitoring server receives the data indicating the event has likely occurred at the property. Based on the data that the event has likely occurred at the property, transmitting, to an additional monitoring system that is configured to monitor an additional property, instructions for the additional monitoring system to perform an action.

Claims (63)

1. A monitoring system comprising:

one or more monitoring devices that are configured to:

receive, from one or more first sensors that are located at a first property and that are configured to generate first sensor data, the first sensor data;

receive, from one or more second sensors that are located at a second property and that are configured to generate second sensor data, the second property being different from the first property, the second sensor data;

analyze the first sensor data and the second sensor data;

using a result of the analysis of the first sensor data and the second sensor data, determine that the first sensor data and the second sensor data conflict; and

in response to determining that the first sensor data and the second sensor data conflict, provide, for output, data indicating an event at the first property or the second property.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more monitoring devices are configured to:

using a result of the analysis of the first sensor data and the second sensor data, determine that a person has left the first property and is likely going to the second property; and

in response to determining that the person has left the first property and is likely going to the second property, perform an action related to the second property.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more monitoring devices are configured to perform the action related to the second property by transmitting an instruction to prepare the second property for the person.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the one or more monitoring devices are configured to:

determine at least one environmental condition of the first property before the person left the first property; and

transmit an instruction to prepare the second property for the person by transmitting an instruction to change at least one environmental condition of the second property to match the at least one environmental condition of the first property.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the at least one environmental condition includes at least one of an ambient temperature, music playing, or lighting style.

6. The system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more monitoring devices are configured to:

receive data indicating traffic conditions;

determine that the person is likely going to arrive at the second property after an expected arrival time using the data indicating the traffic conditions; and

perform the action related to the second property by transmitting an instruction to output a notification indicating that the person is likely going to arrive at the second property after the expected arrival time.

7. The system of claim 1 :

wherein the one or more monitoring devices are configured to determine that the first sensor data and the second sensor data conflict by:

determining that the first sensor data indicates that a particular person is likely at the first property,

determining that the second sensor data indicates that the particular person is likely at the second property; and

wherein the one or more monitoring devices are configured to, in response to determining that the first sensor data and the second sensor data conflict, provide, for output, data indicating an event at the first property or the second property by:

using the conflicting determinations that the particular person is likely at the first property and the second property, provide, for output, data indicating a security event at the first property or the second property.

8. The system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more monitoring devices are configured to determine that the person has left the first property and is likely going to the second property by:

determining a confidence score that indicates a likelihood that the person has left the first property and is likely going to the second property;

comparing the confidence score to a confidence threshold;

using a result of comparing the confidence score to the confidence threshold, determining that the confidence score satisfies the confidence threshold; and

determining that the person has left the first property and is likely going to the second property in response to determining that the confidence score satisfies the confidence threshold.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more monitoring devices comprise a monitoring server.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more monitoring devices comprise a controller located at the first property and a monitoring server located remote from the first property.

11. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving first sensor data sensed by one or more first sensors that are located at a first property;

receiving second sensor data sensed by one or more second sensors that are located at a second property, the second property being different from the first property;

analyzing, by one or more monitoring devices, the first sensor data and the second sensor data;

using a result of the analysis of the first sensor data and the second sensor data, determining, by the one or more monitoring devices, that the first sensor data and the second sensor data conflict; and

in response to determining that the first sensor data and the second sensor data conflict, providing, for output by the one or more monitoring devices, data indicating an event at the first property or the second property.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

using a result of the analysis of the first sensor data and the second sensor data, determining that a person has left the first property and is likely going to the second property; and

in response to determining that the person has left the first property and is likely going to the second property, performing an action related to the second property.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein performing the action related to the second property comprises transmitting an instruction to prepare the second property for the person.

14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

determining at least one environmental condition of the first property before the person left the first property; and

transmitting an instruction to change at least one environmental condition of the second property to match the at least one environmental condition of the first property.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the at least one environmental condition includes at least one of an ambient temperature, music playing, or lighting style.

16. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

receiving data indicating traffic conditions;

determining that the person is likely going to arrive at the second property after an expected arrival time using the data indicating the traffic conditions; and

transmitting an instruction to output a notification indicating that the person is likely going to arrive at the second property after the expected arrival time.

17. The method of claim 11 :

wherein determining that the first sensor data and the second sensor data conflict comprises:

determining that the first sensor data indicates that a particular person is likely at the first property,

determining that the second sensor data indicates that the particular person is likely at the second property; and

wherein providing, for output, data indicating an event at the first property or the second property in response to determining that the first sensor data and the second sensor data conflict, comprises:

using the conflicting determinations that the particular person is likely at the first property and the second property, providing, for output, data indicating a security event at the first property or the second property.

18. The method of claim 12 , wherein determining that the person has left the first property and is likely going to the second property comprises:

determining a confidence score that indicates a likelihood that the person has left the first property and is likely going to the second property;

comparing the confidence score to a confidence threshold;

using a result of comparing the confidence score to the confidence threshold, determining that the confidence score satisfies the confidence threshold; and

determining that the person has left the first property and is likely going to the second property in response to determining that the confidence score satisfies the confidence threshold.

19. The method of claim 11 , wherein the one or more monitoring devices comprise a monitoring server.

20. The method of claim 11 , wherein the one or more monitoring devices comprise a controller located at the first property and a monitoring server located remote from the first property.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 15, 2021
From: WEINGART, NOAH ROBERT; KINNEY, ABRAHAM JOSEPH; CAMARGO, FABIAN EMILIO PHILIPE; FURTUNA, ANDREI AURELIAN; HUTZ, DAVID JAMES
To: ALARM.COM INCORPORATED
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