US 9,349,262 B2
Security system providing a localized humanly-perceivable alert for identifying a facility to emergency personnelGeneral
US 9,349,262 B2
Security system providing a localized humanly-perceivable alert for identifying a facility to emergency personnel
Tech Center:
2600 Communications
Examiner:
Eric Blount
Art Unit:
2684 Telemetry and Code Generation; Vehicles and System Alarms; Selective Communication; Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives; Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives
Agent:
Inventors:
James B. Henrie
Assignee:
Priority:
03/15/13
Filed:
03/14/14
Granted:
05/24/16
Expiration:
03/15/33
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for guiding emergency personnel to a location in a facility proximate to an alarm that has been generated. In one aspect, a method may include detecting an alarm condition at a facility protected by a security system and determining a location at the facility of the alarm condition. The method may further include causing at least one indicator at the facility, which is proximate to the determined location of the alarm condition, to generate an identifying alert that is humanly perceivable from an exterior of the facility such that emergency personnel can identify the facility based at least in part on the identifying alert. In some aspects, the method may also include notifying a security representative of the alarm condition, and receiving a notification from the security representative indicating that emergency personnel are dispatched to the facility.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
G08G08B7/064G08B