Devices and methods for protecting unattended children in the home

1. A method, comprising:

at a computer system:

receiving occupancy data for a room in a smart home environment;

determining, based at least in part on the received occupancy data for the room, whether a predetermined child-protection alert condition is met;

in accordance with a determination that the predetermined child-protection alert condition is met, presenting or sending instructions to issue a child-protection alert;

after the presenting or sending instructions to issue a child-protection alert, receiving a request to cancel the child-protection alert;

in accordance with a determination that the request to cancel corresponds to a child-protection alert that was unneeded, wherein the request includes cancelling a first disablement:

canceling the child-protection alert; and

modifying the predetermined child-protection alert condition;

in accordance with a determination that the request to cancel corresponds to a child-protection alert that was needed and properly performed, wherein the request includes cancelling a second disablement:

canceling the child-protection alert; and

foregoing modifying the predetermined child-protection alert condition; and

in accordance with a determination that the request to cancel corresponds to a child protection alert that was needed but late in being presented:

canceling the child-protection alert; and

changing the predetermined child-protection alert condition.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining, based at least in part on the received occupancy data for the room, whether the predetermined child-protection alert condition is met includes determining that a child is the lone occupant in the room for at least a threshold amount of time.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein changing the predetermined child-protection alert condition includes changing a threshold time and/or a threshold distance to at least one unused electrical outlet and/or at least one electronically-controlled door handle.

4. A computer system of a smart home environment, comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more programs stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:

receiving occupancy data for a room of the smart home environment;

determining, based at least in part on the received occupancy data for the room, whether a predetermined child-protection alert condition is met;

in accordance with a determination that the predetermined child-protection alert condition is met, presenting or sending instructions to issue a child-protection alert;

after the presenting or sending instructions to issue a child-protection alert, receiving a request to cancel the child-protection alert;

in accordance with a determination that the request to cancel corresponds to a child-protection alert that was unneeded, wherein the request includes cancelling a first disablement:

canceling the child-protection alert; and

modifying the predetermined child-protection alert condition;

in accordance with a determination that the request to cancel corresponds to a child-protection alert that was needed and properly performed, wherein the request includes cancelling a second disablement:

canceling the child-protection alert; and

foregoing modifying the predetermined child-protection alert condition; and

in accordance with a determination that the request to cancel corresponds to a child protection alert that was needed but late in being presented:

canceling the child-protection alert; and

changing the predetermined child-protection alert condition.

5. The computer system of claim 4 , wherein the instructions for presenting or sending instructions to issue a child-protection alert include instructions for displaying a visual warning in one or more rooms, sounding an audible warning in the one or more rooms, and/or sending a notification to one or more occupants of the smart home environment or to a third party.

6. The computer system of claim 4 , wherein the instructions for receiving occupancy data for a room of a smart home environment include instructions for receiving occupancy data from one or more of: a motion sensor, an optical sensor, an audio sensor, a touch sensor, a pressure sensor, and an ambient sensor, in the room of the smart home environment.

7. The computer system of claim 4 , wherein the received occupancy data for the room include one or more of: motion data, video data, audio data, and touch data.

8. The computer system of claim 6 , further comprising instructions for identifying one or more categories of individuals based on the received occupancy data for the room.

9. The computer system of claim 4 , the one or more programs further comprising instructions for:

displaying, on a display of a client device associated with a user of the smart home environment:

a user interface for presenting the child-protection alert; and

one or more user-selectable cancellation options.

10. The computer system of claim 9 , the one or more programs further comprising instructions for:

transmitting to the computer system user feedback in accordance with a user selection of the one or more user-selectable cancellation options; and

wherein the determination of the request to cancel is in accordance with the user selection of the one or more user-selectable cancellation options.

11. The computer system of claim 10 , wherein the user selection of the one or more user-selectable cancellation options is made using a voice command of the user.

12. The computer system of claim 9 , wherein the user interface is generated based on information from the computer system.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs for execution by one or more processors of a computer system of a smart home environment, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:

receiving occupancy data for a room in a smart home environment;

determining, based at least in part on the received occupancy data for the room, whether a predetermined child-protection alert condition is met;

in accordance with a determination that the predetermined child-protection alert condition is met, presenting or sending instructions to issue a child-protection alert;

after the presenting or sending instructions to issue a child-protection alert, receiving a request to cancel the child-protection alert;

in accordance with a determination that the request to cancel corresponds to a child-protection alert that was unneeded, wherein the request includes cancelling a first disablement:

canceling the child-protection alert; and

modifying the predetermined child-protection alert condition;

in accordance with a determination that the request to cancel corresponds to a child-protection alert that was needed and properly performed, wherein the request includes cancelling a second disablement:

canceling the child-protection alert; and

foregoing modifying the predetermined child-protection alert condition; and

in accordance with a determination that the request to cancel corresponds to a child protection alert that was needed but late in being presented:

canceling the child-protection alert; and

changing the predetermined child-protection alert condition.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the room includes:

one or more unused electrical outlets; and/or

one or more electronically-controlled door handles.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein:

canceling the first disablement includes canceling a disablement of at least one of the one or more unused electrical outlets and/or the one or more electronically-controlled door handles that is not needed; and

canceling the second disablement includes canceling a disablement of at least one of the one or more unused electrical outlets and/or the one or more electronically-controlled door handles that is needed and properly performed.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , the one or more programs further comprising instructions for:

disabling at least one of the one or more unused electrical outlets and/or at least one of the one or more electronically-controlled door handles in the room in accordance with the determination the predetermined child-protection alert condition is met.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , the one or more programs further comprising instructions for:

in accordance with a determination that the predetermined child-protection condition is met, disabling or sending instructions to disable one or more of: the one or more unused electrical outlets and/or, the one or more electronically-controlled door handles;

after the disabling or the sending instructions to disable, receiving a request to enable the disabled one or more of: the one or more unused electrical outlets and/or the one or more electronically-controlled door handles;

determining a type for the received enablement request;

in accordance with a determination that the received enablement request is a first type of enablement request:

enabling the disabled one or more of: the one or more unused electrical outlets and/or the one or more electronically-controlled door handles, and

modifying the predetermined child-protection condition; and

in accordance with a determination that the received enablement request is a second type of enablement request, distinct from the first type of enablement request:

enabling the disabled one or more of: the one or more unused electrical outlets and/or, the one or more electronically-controlled door handles, and

forgoing modifying the predetermined child-protection condition.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the computer system is located in a smart home provider server system remote from the smart home environment.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the instructions for receiving occupancy data for a room of a smart home environment include instructions for receiving occupancy data from one or more sensors in the room of the smart home environment; and

wherein the computer system is located in the smart home environment at a separate location from the one or more sensors in the room.