EP2975584A1 - Système d'alarme - Google Patents

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EP2975584A1
EP2975584A1 EP14177445.5A EP14177445A EP2975584A1 EP 2975584 A1 EP2975584 A1 EP 2975584A1 EP 14177445 A EP14177445 A EP 14177445A EP 2975584 A1 EP2975584 A1 EP 2975584A1
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Didier Paul Henri Goujard
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    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B25/00—Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems
    • G08B25/009—Signalling of the alarm condition to a substation whose identity is signalled to a central station, e.g. relaying alarm signals in order to extend communication range
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    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B25/00—Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems
    • G08B25/01—Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems characterised by the transmission medium
    • G08B25/08—Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems characterised by the transmission medium using communication transmission lines

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  • the present invention relates to an alarm system, and in particular, to an alarm system employing a server and a bidirectional DTMF communication and control to support the connection and communication with the PSTN, a mobile communication network and/or the Internet.
  • PSTN is commonly used in connecting with home, office or factory, the disadvantage is very obvious, sometimes the alarm information can not reach to the user while the phone is in busy.
  • mobile communication network such as SMS to user's mobile phones, or through Internet such as email to user's smartphones or computers.
  • the purpose of the invention is to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art and to provide an alarm system employing a server to support the connection with the PSTN, a mobile communication network or the Internet. Even a user did not install a mobile communication network or an Internet at home or office, this alarm system can also notice alarm information to the user through SMS or email.
  • the alarm system might comprise at least one client and server, and the client is in signal connection with at least one electric alarm monitoring device to transmit alarm monitoring signal or control signal between the client and electric alarm monitoring device;
  • the client includes a client PSTN unit connecting with PSTN, a client DTMF signal processing unit, and a client master control unit connecting with the client PSTN unit and DTMF signals processing unit;
  • a pre-set program is provided in the client master control unit for controlling the DTMF signal processing unit to transmit a composed DTMF alarm monitoring signal that includes a alarm monitoring signal received from the electric alarm monitoring device and a client identification number to the server; and a second pre-set program for converting a DTMF control signal received from the server into a control signal of the electric alarm monitoring device, and for transmitting the control signal to the electric alarm monitoring device;
  • the server includes a server network communication unit connecting with the mobile communication network and/or Internet, a server PSTN unit connecting with a PSTN network, a server DTMF signal processing unit, a user information database,
  • the alarm monitoring signal includes an identification number of the electric alarm monitoring device, an operating status of the electric alarm monitoring device, an environmental information monitored by the electric alarm monitoring device, and an alarm information alerted by the electric monitoring and device.
  • the client is wireless communicated with at least one electric monitoring and device; the client includes a client's wireless communication unit, each electric alarm monitoring device having a wireless communication unit connected with the client's wireless communication unit.
  • both of the client's wireless communication unit and wireless communication unit of the electric alarm monitoring device are RF transceiver units that working on the frequency of 868MHz or 433MHz, or, adapting DECT ULE or ZigBee communication protocols.
  • the client is wirely connected with at least one electric alarm monitoring device.
  • the electric alarm monitoring device is set as to transmit alarm monitoring signal by way of a designated alarm monitoring sound according to the pre-set program;
  • the client includes a microphone, a sound database for alarming, and an alarm sound recognition unit;
  • the sound database stores alarm monitoring sounds of the electric alarm monitoring device and the related alarm monitoring information;
  • the alarm sound recognition unit is connecting with the client master control unit, and is set to match the sound received by the microphone with the alarm sounds stored in the database, and to send a alarm monitoring sound to the client master control unit once the match is successful.
  • the user terminal is installed with application program to act as user interface for receiving alarm monitoring signal from the server, or to send control signal to the server.
  • the client further includes a recording device connecting with the client master control unit, the client master control unit has a pre-set program for transmitting recorded environmental sound and DTMF alarm monitoring signal to the server through the client PSTN unit; the server master control unit has a pre-set programs for transmitting the alarm monitoring signal together with the environmental sound according to a data of the user information database in a specific manner to a designated phone number of the user terminal through the server network communication unit and/or server PSTN unit.
  • the electric alarm monitoring device is selected from the group consisting of fire smoke alarm, infrared burglar alarm, wireless alarm button, magnetic control switch alarm.
  • the client further includes a loudspeaker connecting with the client master control unit.
  • the client and server connected to a PSTN network through its own PSTN unit.
  • user can install one or more electric alarm monitoring device at home or in office, and then starting and connecting the electric alarm monitoring device with the client.
  • the electric alarm monitoring device will transmit alarm monitoring signal to the client, while it detects some abnormal events (such as someone breaking into the flat or in fire alarm, etc.). If the client and the electric alarm monitoring device are signal connected by cable, the signal will be transmitted by a cable; and if the client and the electric alarm monitoring device are wirelessly connected, the signal will be transmitted from the wireless communication unit of the electric alarm monitoring device to the client wireless communication unit, both of the electric alarm monitoring device's wireless communication unit and the client's wireless communication unit could be RF transceiver units.
  • alarm monitoring signal can also be sent to the client in the form of sound
  • the electric alarm monitoring device should be set to convert a predefined alarm monitoring sound into a transmission signal according to the pre-set program
  • the client includes a microphone, a sound database for alarming, and an alarm sound recognition unit
  • the sound database stores different kinds of alarm sounds of the electric alarm monitoring device and the related monitoring alarm information
  • the alarm sound recognition unit is connected to client's master control unit, and be set as to match the sound received from microphone between the alarm sounds stored in the database, while successfully matched, the alarm sound recognition unit will generate and alert alarm monitoring signal to the client master control unit.
  • the client's master control unit can command client's DTMF signal processing unit to compose a DTMF monitoring alarm signal, the DTMF alarm monitoring signal is combined with monitoring alarm signal that received from the alarm monitoring device and client's identification number, and then, by the way of the client PSTN unit dialing the designated phone number of the server to connect with server PSTN unit, the client's master control unit transmit the DTMF alarm monitoring signal to the server.
  • the server master control unit can command the server DTMF signal processing unit to convert the DTMF alarm monitoring signal that received from the server PSTN unit to a alarm monitoring signal and a client identification number; then the server transmit the alarm monitoring signal to the designated phone number of the user terminal in a specific manner through the server network communication unit and/or server PSTN unit according to the data of the user information database.
  • users can transmit control signal from the server to a designated electric alarm monitoring device to query the statuses or to control the operations of the designated electric alarm monitoring device;
  • the server master control unit can convert control signal that received from the user terminal into DTMF control signal, and then transmit the DTMF control signals to a designated client through the server PSTN unit according to the data of the user information database;
  • the client master control unit then convert the DTMF control signal received from the server into a corresponding control signal of the electric alarm monitoring device, and then transmit such control signals to the corresponding electric alarm monitoring device with the purpose of controlling the operations of such device.
  • the client further includes a recording device connected with the client master control unit, before the sending of the electric alarm monitoring signal, the client master control unit record a predefined period of environmental sounds and transmit the sounds together with the DTMF alarm monitoring signal to the server via client PSTN unit; the server master control unit then transmit the alarm monitoring signal and environmental sounds to the designated phone number of the user terminal in a specific manner, via server communication unit and/or server PSTN unit according to the data of the user information database, for example, the environmental sounds can be transmitted to the user terminal by email attachments.
  • FIG.1 is a schematic view of the configuration of an embodiment of the invention.
  • the alarm system of this embodiment includes a client 1 and a server 2, there can be more clients 1 in other embodiments.
  • the client 1 is in signal connection with three electric alarm monitoring devices (31, 32, 33) to transmit alarm monitoring signals and control signals between the client and electric alarm monitoring devices.
  • Electric alarm monitoring device 31 is a fire smoke alarm
  • electric alarm monitoring device 32 is an infrared burglar alarm
  • electric alarm monitoring device 33 is a wireless alarm button
  • the client can be in signal connection with more or less electric alarm monitoring device
  • the electric alarm monitoring device can also be in other types.
  • the client 1 includes a client PSTN unit 11, a client DTMF signal processing unit 12, and a client master control unit 13 that connected with the client PSTN unit 11 and the client DTMF signals processing unit 12; a pre-set program is provided in the client master control unit 13 for controlling the DTMF signal processing unit 12 to transmit a composed DTMF alarm monitoring signal that includes a alarm monitoring signal received from the electric alarm monitoring devices 31, 32, 33 and a client identification number to the server 2; and a pre-set program for converting a DTMF control signal received from the server 2 into a control signal of the electric alarm monitoring devices 31, 32, 33, and for transmitting the control signal to the electric alarm monitoring device 31, 32, 33.
  • the server 2 includes a server network communication unit 21 connected to the mobile communication network and / or Internet, a server PSTN unit 22 connected to the PSTN, a server DTMF signal processing unit 23, a user information database 24, a server control unit 25 connected with the server network communication unit21, server PSTN unit 22, server DTMF signal processing unit 23 and user information database 24.
  • the server network communication unit 21 is in signal connection with user terminal 4 to transmit alarm monitoring signal to the terminal 4 or to receive control signal from the user terminal 4;
  • the server master control unit 25 is provided with the DTMF signals processing unit 23 to convert the DTMF alarm monitoring signal received from the server PSTN unit 22 into an alarm monitoring signal (and/or an alarm monitoring message) and a client identification number;
  • a pre-set program for transmitting the alarm monitoring signal or message according to a data of the user information database 24 by a designated method to a designated terminal 4 through the server network communication unit 21 and/or server PSTN unit 22; and a pre-set program for converting the control signal received from the user terminal 4 into a DTMF control signal and transmitting such signal according to a data of the user information database 24 to a designated client 1 through the server PSTN unit 22.
  • Each client unit 1 and server 2 is equipped with a designated phone number, client PSTN unit 11 dials designated phone numbers of the server 2 to connect with the server PSTN unit 22; the server PSTN unit 22 dials designated phone numbers of the client 1 to connect with client PSTN unit 11.
  • the alarm monitoring signal of electric alarm monitoring device 31 includes an identification number (that is, 01 in this embodiment) and operating status (such as in operating, in ceasing, in testing, etc.) of the electric alarm monitoring device, alarm information (i.e., fire alarm) alerted by the electric alarm monitoring device.
  • Alarm monitoring signal of the electric alarm monitoring device 32 i.e., infrared burglar alarm
  • Identification number that is, 02 in this embodiment
  • operating status such as in operating, in ceasing, in testing, etc.
  • alarm information i.e., intruder alarm
  • Alarm monitoring signal of the electric alarm monitoring device 33 includes identification number (that is, 03 in this embodiment) and operating status (such as in operating, in ceasing, in testing, etc.) of the electric alarm monitoring device, alarm information (i.e., pressing button alarm) alerted by the electric alarm monitoring device.
  • Electric alarm monitoring device 31 i.e., fire smoke alarm
  • the client 1 contains client communication unit 14
  • an electric alarm monitoring wireless communication unit 311 is provided on the alarm monitoring device 31 to connect with the client wireless communication unit 14.
  • the electric alarm monitoring wireless communication unit 311 could be also provided on the alarm monitoring devices 32 and 33 thereby enabling respectively a wireless connection with the client 1 as required.
  • Both of the client wireless communication unit 14 and the electric monitor alarm wireless communication unit 311 are RF transceiver units, and working on the frequency of 868MHz or 433MHz, in other embodiments, they adapt DECT ULE or ZigBee and other communication protocols also. The same principle applies to other electronic monitoring devices for monitoring the temperature, flood, door, or the like.
  • Electric alarm monitoring device 32 (i.e., infrared burglar alarm) is set as to transmit alarm monitoring signal by way of a designated monitoring alarm sound according to the pre-set program;
  • the client 1 includes a microphone 15, a sound database for alarming 16, and an alarm sound recognition unit 17;
  • the sound database 16 stores alarm monitoring sounds of the electric alarm monitoring device 32 and the related monitoring alarm information;
  • the alarm sound recognition unit 17 is connecting with the client master control unit 13, and is set to match the sound received by the microphone 15 with the alarm sounds stored in the database 16, and to send a alarm monitoring sound to the client master control unit 13 once the match succeed.
  • Electric alarm monitoring device 33 i.e., wireless alarm button
  • the client 1 i.e., wireless alarm button
  • the user terminal 4 is installed with application program to act as user interface for receiving alarm monitoring signal from the server 2, or to send control signal to the server 2.
  • application program to act as user interface for receiving alarm monitoring signal from the server 2, or to send control signal to the server 2.
  • Client 1 further includes a recording device 18 connecting with the client master control unit 13, the client master control unit 13 has a pre-set program for transmitting recorded environmental sound and DTMF alarm monitoring signal to the server 2 through the client PSTN unit 11; the server master control unit 25 has a pre-set programs for transmitting the alarm monitoring signal together with the environmental sound according to a data of the user information database 24 to a designated user terminal 4 in a specific manner through the server network communication unit 21 and/or server PSTN unit 22.
  • the client 1 and server 2 connected to a PSTN network through respective PSTN units 11 and 22.
  • user can install electric alarm monitoring devices 31, 32, 33 at home or in office, and then starting and connecting these electric alarm monitoring devices 31, 32, 33 with the client 1.
  • Electric alarm monitoring devices 31, 32, 33 will transmit alarm monitoring signal to the client 1, while it detects some abnormal events (someone breaking into the flat or in fire alarm, etc.). If client 1 and electric alarm monitoring device 33 are signal connected by cable, the signal will be transmitted by a cable; if client 1 and electric alarm monitoring device 31 are wirelessly connected, the signal will be transformed from the wireless communication unit 311 of the electric alarm monitoring device 31 to the client wireless communication unit 14, electric alarm monitoring device 32 (i.e., infrared burglar alarm) can send alarm monitoring signal to client 1 in sound.
  • electric alarm monitoring device 32 i.e., infrared burglar alarm
  • the client master control unit 13 can command client DTMF signal processing unit 12 to compose a DTMF monitoring alarm signal, the DTMF alarm monitoring signal is combined by alarm monitoring signal that received from the alarm monitoring devices 31, 32, 33 and client's identification number, and then, by the way of the client PSTN unit 11 dialing the designated phone number of the server 2 to connect with server PSTN unit 22, the client's master control unit 13 then transmit the DTMF alarm monitoring signal to server 2.
  • the server master control unit 25 can command the server DTMF signal processing unit 23 to convert the DTMF alarm monitoring signal that received from the server PSTN unit 22 into a alarm monitoring signal and a client identification number; then the server 2 transmit the alarm monitoring signal to the designated user terminal 4 in a specific manner through the server network communication unit 21 and/or server PSTN unit 22 according to the data of the user information database 24.
  • the specific manner at here is sending SMS messages to a designated phone number, or sending email to a designated email address for user to read the information in the user terminal, or dialing a designated phone numbers to play designated content.
  • users can transmit control signal from the server 2 to designated electric alarm monitoring devices 31,32,33 to query the statuses or to control the operations of the designated electric alarm monitoring devices 31,32,33;
  • the server master control unit 25 can convert a control signal or message received from user terminal 4 into a DTMF control signal, and then transmit the DTMF control signal to a designated client 1 through the server PSTN unit 22 according to the data of the user information database 24;
  • the client master control unit 13 then convert the DTMF control signal received from the server 2 into a corresponding control signal of the electric alarm monitoring device, and then transmit such control signals to the corresponding electric alarm monitoring devices 31,32,33 with the purpose of controlling the operations of such devices.

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