ES2247917A1 - Security system for telemonitoring of location and telecontrolling of domestic device, has telemonitoring and telecontrol mechanism implemented on location, where system integrates control of automation devices with transmission of images - Google Patents

Abstract

The system has a telemonitoring and telecontrol mechanism implemented on a certain location, where the system integrates control of local automation devices with transmission of images to different movable devices or internet. User interacts with local automation actuators from any part through movable devices conforming to global system for mobile communications (GSM), general packet radio service (GPRS)or universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS).

Description

Security and remote surveillance system of locations integrating device remote domestic.

The invention consists of a security system and remote monitoring of locations integrating the remote control of household devices

Technical sector

The invention relates to the fields of home automation, data and image transmission over the internet or through mobile phone networks and remote control of remote devices. So as its application to the surveillance and security of spaces.

State of the art

There are currently many devices Home automation to perform the most diverse functions within the Home: turn off / on lights or appliances, control blinds, thermostats, irrigation, etc.

They can also be easily found cameras called web cameras or IP cameras, either connected to a PC or autonomously can transmit the images of the place monitored to the Internet or mobile phones. Being able to even protect access to these images by passwords

An example of using video streaming by a network is described in US2002141619, in this device you can detect motion and send images through a network of data.

There are also applications for transmission of certain data through an infrastructure of communications as well as the control of certain devices remotely installed The system described in the document WO03017225 allows to control a series of electronic components previously configured and programmed using an image taken by a webcam of the environment where the devices are located. OR the description in US 6,281,790 according to which they can be transmitted signals between devices installed in a location and a remote point and vice versa.

All the previous applications and the immense most of those existing in the market start from the premise of have a web server in the monitored place used to transmit information via the Internet and be read using the standard browsers In the case of transmission to phones mobile the issuer, in the local application, is a radio card for mobile telephony We actually talk about transmission from "mobile to mobile ", with the costs and lack of security that entails

Explanation of the invention.

The system provides a mechanism for televigilancia and telecontrol in order to implement a system Advanced security over a certain location.

This system integrates the control of some local home automation devices with the transmission of incidence and images to different mobile devices or the Internet. Likewise the user can interact with local home automation actuators from anywhere through the Internet or mobile devices: GSM, GPRS or UMTS.

The application incorporates uniquely: the sensor control, automatic action in the event of incidents, the notice of these incidents to users and the ability to Remote control of the devices installed in the monitored place. All this in a transparent way for the user and without the use of proprietary technology, using commercial hardware technology and standard.

The system incorporates mechanisms that make impossible to access the place monitored by people not authorized.

Brief description of the drawing

Figure 1 represents the general scheme of security system. This figure presents the elements that involved in the security application: security system installed in the guarded place that remains "isolated" from Global communications networks

Detailed Explanation of the Invention

The invention consists of a security system advanced that integrates remote monitoring, multiple warning systems and remote control of remotely installed devices.

The security application represented in the Figure 1 will only use communications infrastructure to indicate to the "service provider" that it is active and "ask" if you have any pending action to take. In the case where the local security system detects any incidence will launch internal and external actions (to through the service provider) programmed by the user.

It is important to notice the direction of the arrows, Indicators of the direction of information flows. As already It has been explained in the description of the invention, the flow of information between the monitored place and the installed applications on the servers it is always one way out of place watched; being this one who recovers from the queues maintained by the  server applications if you have any pending action: execution of a command on home automation components, on the system of alarm or for the transmission of images or video.

The user interacts remotely with the system of security installed in the monitored location through web applications or using mobile phone terminals, being the service provider who ensures the identity of the user and stores actions in the pending command queues required The user can receive confirmation of the actions when these are executed.

The security system may comprise a control of the devices and cameras installed in the local user with a mobile communications device or a computer computer with Internet access, with flexibility in the use of different mobile or internet communications equipment, without limitations regarding mobile communications technology used; as well as in the internet access used, that is, the typology of the network from where the remote control is being carried out the House. The user can define various people with different privileges for access to the display or control of the monitored place. Installed devices and cameras they don't have to be manufactured "ad hoc" so they can be operated by this system since the application supports the most widespread standards in the market.

The security system may comprise a configuration of actions to be performed automatically or monitored in the user's premises, with the definition of procedures to be carried out by the system before the appearance of Any scheduled incident. The actions to be performed can be internal to the monitored place and / or external. Configuration only may be carried out by the owner or administrator user of the security system, whose identity will be verified by a validation procedure that includes: username, password, mobile phone PIN code and single use keys sent to the mobile phone.

The security system can understand independent viewing and remote control operations device from which they are made or the level of knowledge of the user. This system may include a mechanism that consists of in the non-restriction either hardware or software of the devices whereby the user accesses their monitored premises.

In the security system there can be a adequacy of the transmission of information in both directions to physical and logical device and infrastructure used to access and control the monitored place, so that the user can teleoperate the surveillance system from mobile phones or computers with internet connections without any requirement special features of the device or software installed in them, with the limitations that are imposed by The terminal used.

With a single application a service of alarm in which the incidents that may occur are configured as well as the procedures to follow in case they occur. The Procedures can be: transmission of images and video to any GSM, GPRS and UMTS mobile device; or through the Internet. You can also transmit short messages to mobile phones, Emails, faxes.

At any time the user may have control of home automation devices installed on the premises monitored over the Internet or any device you use Mobile phone networks. This control can be used for deactivation / activation of deterrent devices in case of that an incident has occurred or simply to perform a remote control of some element: lights, doors, heating, electrical differentials, etc.

The system has great flexibility and independence of topology and data transmission technology used both in the monitored place and in the environment from which The user accesses this information remotely.

The transmission of information from the place monitored end users can be done using different Data transmission infrastructure: mobile networks (GSM, GPRS or UMTS) or by cable (cable operators, ADSL, ISDN, etc.). Both can be used redundantly increasing the connection security.

Similarly, data reception does not depend of the infrastructure used for viewing or remote control, becoming able to use both mobile networks, wireless or by cable.

This flexibility and independence of the environment transmission physicist is achieved because all places monitored and remote users will communicate with a server or servers on which there will be a series of services responsible for the adequacy of the information to be transmitted and the senders and receivers of such information. Logically this adequacy will depend on the means and technology used for the transmission and reception of information.

Services can directly connect a information flow from the monitored place to users as long as the communications channel topology allow, that is, there are no hardware or software devices that prevent this direct communication according to criteria of security or bad configuration of data networks. In case of the connection cannot be direct, the services will enable the adequate and secure channels to transmit through a server.

This communications management architecture of the security system avoids important problems that occur with the current data transmission devices that are very sensitive to local data network configurations used, having to modify this in many cases to allow the correct functioning of the devices and Transmission applications The security system is adapted to the existing data transmission topologies, suppressing all difficulty on the part of the user when configuring the system local to changes in the data transmission network used. By For example, change from an ISDN line to an ADSL or change the location of remote from the usual office to a computer connected in a hotel, cyber cafe, etc.

The security system user can define at all times that people and with what privileges can access the visualization or control of the monitored place. You can also define which commands are those that can be "ordered" to installed devices and by what means: web interface or message short in which case it will be specified from which phone you can Send the command. Users may receive confirmation of the Execution of ordered commands.

Installed devices and cameras do not they have to be manufactured "ad hoc" so that they can operate and be operated with the present system since the application supports the more generalized standards of the market in terms of devices Home automation and webcam for PCs.

In the security system you can configure the procedures or actions to be carried out if they occur any incidence of the programmed ones. These actions to be performed They can be internal to the monitored place and / or external. Internal consist essentially of lighting of lights or devices deterrent and / or power failure. While the external They can be sending SMS, MMS, fax, mail, photographs and video the user being the one who defines the number of these shipments, the recipients and contents.

Electronic notifications (emails fundamentally electronic) can be digitally signed with which adds the unique notification sending feature to state security forces with consideration of complaint, not only notification as it happens so far with a phone call or by sending a fax or email.

The configuration can only be carried out by the owner user or system administrator of security, whose identity will be checked by a procedure Validation that includes: username, password, code Mobile phone PIN and single-use keys sent to the phone mobile. The configuration procedure will be through an access website in which the user must enter their username and password, if the security system is currently activated or the configuration will not be possible, otherwise the The owner's mobile phone will be sent a password a single use that will expire around 90 sec. after having been sent to be introduced at that time in the access Web. Once you have access to the configuration you can modify the configurable parameters and once the process temporarily saves those parameters in the server waiting for the security system to be activated within a defined time, otherwise the configuration will will lose When the local alarm system is activated it will detect that there is a new configuration and it will update the one currently has, notifying the user through a short message that the Settings have been changed. The next time the system security is activated will work with the new configuration.

The security system keeps an accounting of the incidents occurred as well as the actions carried out as a result of these incidents or by remote commands. The reports generated from said accounting may be consulted by Authorized users

The security system makes the connections with the outside through a mechanism that telematically isolates it of global networks (eg Internet). This procedure is that the local application is not "listening" on no time waiting to receive any command or request, always the local security system takes the initiative and consults in the server enabled for this purpose if you have pending some action, that is: execute a command on a device local or stream a video to a specific user. This architecture totally prevents the attack of systems local security by applications or people outside the system, for the simple reason that this local application does not it exists on the Internet or any other telematic network since it does not have no "listening" procedure waiting for orders. This, unlike current systems, makes the local application virtually inviolable by people not authorized. No one can interact directly with the place watched.

All actions to be executed by the application installed in the monitored place will be done through a system of internal queues on the servers where they are running services and are the "guarded places", as it has already been explained, those who access those queues to "see" if there is any action to be performed on the system, a device or to the transmission of certain information. These queues are not public and no person or computer application outside this platform of Security can access them. The only points for "Sort" commands to the local monitored are through web access, protected with username and password and by sending from devices mobile: mainly mobile phones. And even then You can send a single-use password to the user's mobile phone that you will have to enter in the web access to be able to "order" a command on the monitored location. All this does virtually impossible to use the security system of the place monitored by third parties even in the hypothesis that said outsiders will temporarily find out about a user and a password, since they would also need to have the card mobile of said user and the pin of said card. Also no let's forget that the user can change his password in any moment as well as the names of the other authorized users and Your passwords

All warning operations, viewings or control can be done regardless of the devices mobile or computer used for it and the level of knowledge of the user. Logically the information handled will depend on the capabilities of the device used, for example, if the user only It has a traditional mobile with GSM technology, you can interact with the place monitored by SMS, you will not be able to Stream images or video.

That adaptation of the information transmitted to the means used is carried out by the installed services on servers that work in conjunction with the systems of local security. This avoids any cumbersome task. by the user to carry out configurations depending of the devices used or in the case of changing from one medium to other: from a mobile phone to a PDA or to a PC connected to Internet.

Embodiment of the invention

To realize the invention you have to create two perfectly differentiated and complementary parts: the system of Local security and service provider.

a) Creation of the local security system

The local security system must have a home automation bus controller to which the different devices controlled by the system will be connected: lights, sirens, differentials, sensors, etc. This controller will be responsible for reading the status of the sensors and transmitting the instructions to the different actuators installed in the monitored place. The physical interface for sending and receiving commands and states will be the electrical network or radio transmission equipment. This greatly facilitates the installation of these devices at the location to be monitored.

The local security system must also have a secure communications system with the service provider. These communications will be made in an encrypted manner by a single certificate for each installation. In addition to the certificate, each client will also be identified by a serial number and a physical identifier; such as the MAC address of the network card or the serial number of the hard disk used in the local computer. These controls uniquely identify the local client that is communicating with the server, in addition to different redundant mechanisms. As it has been defined, communications will always depart from the local system to the server never the other way around, among other things because of impossibility, since the local client has no process to listen to external requests: thereby guaranteeing the inviolability of customers .

Another manager of the local system would be in charge of managing the scheduled incidents and the actions corresponding to each of those incidents. This manager will have the mission of checking the sensors associated to the incidents to detect the activation of any of them or several and to implement the programmed actions for those incidents: activation of sirens, lights, emails, fax, SMS, MMS , video recording, etc. For external actions you should contact the service provider who will be asked to send mails, fax, SMS, etc.

Management system groupings ( "pooling") by which the client tells the server which is still connected and has not been any incidence that have been disconnected (power outages, downed communications, etc) in which case the server send a notification to the user of the incident. This "pooling" manager is in charge of checking if there are commands to be executed in the queues of the server, obtain them and pass it on to the manager of programmed actions and incidents to execute them. When a local incident occurs, the frequency with which pooling is done to the server will increase while waiting for commands given by the user to be executed or by other managers of the server to send the captured video to the location where the server is located. authorized user to see the images that are being obtained or that have been recorded.

Manager of transmission / recording of video and images . This manager is responsible for video recording and image capture at the request of the action and incident manager. These recorded videos can be taken to the server for later viewing by authorized users. The encrypted recordings are stored to ensure that no one can view them. This manager can also broadcast the video in real time on request of the manager of actions and incidents. Other functions of the manager of transmission / recording of video and images is the capture of images with different functionalities: for a certain period of time, a number of images, capturing images from time to time, etc. Then these images can be sent periodically to the user and / or in the event of an incident occurring in the monitored place. This sending of images will be managed by the incident and action manager.

b) Creation of the service provider:

Validation system of local security systems . It is responsible for verifying that the request received corresponds to a registered customer, they are checked: serial number, digital signature and MAC address of the network card or serial number of the hard disk. Once the identity has been verified, the request will be routed to the corresponding server and service.

Platform for the provision of services . This platform will form the architecture where to "hook" the different services provided to local security systems: outgoing and incoming SMS, mails, MMS, fax, video and images. There are other services that will be used internally by client-server applications: log services to save local client execution information, file transfer and leasing information for implementation of command pool queues and for notification that the customer is still active and has not stopped working for some accidental reason: power outage, communications outages, etc. The platform where the different services will be executed will be an open platform, in the sense, to be able to "hook" new services at any time and robust in terms of failures in specific services. That is, if a particular service stops, the execution of the other services will not stop. For example, if the SMS service "crashes" it does not have to affect the "emails" service.

Remote Access Manager This manager resolves command requests on the local security system; These commands will be stored in the pooling queues of the particular client. Command execution requests will be given from a Web access, which the user has accessed through a name and password; and, additionally, by entering the single-use password that has been sent to the mobile. Another access for requests on the local system is short messages using a mobile, mobile number and keyword configured by the user, giving them permission to execute a specific command on the local system: turn on / off devices, open doors, send photographs, etc. .

There is a records and reports manager responsible for recording all incidents and actions taken by the local system, as well as the commands executed on it. This module will be responsible for preparing reports on request or periodically to users. These reports will be presented through web pages, sending SMS with a summary, email or fax.

Configuration manager of local alarm systems . The local security systems are configurable, in all facets that have already been explained: programming of incidents and actions, sending SMS, FAX, mail, etc. This configuration is done through a totally secure web access, since it follows the following procedure:

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Configuration request through an access web page on which the main user or administrator of a certain local security system enter your username, password and the one-time password that in That moment is sent to your mobile phone.

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If he local security system is currently activated or armed not the configuration can be changed at all: end of process.

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If he local security system is disabled allows you to change the configuration that will be saved locally on the server and will will indicate a time of several hours in which the local system It must be activated or armed.

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To assemble the security system within the given time, the new configuration will be downloaded using the described system of "pooling" at that time a confirmation message is sent to the mobile of the main user or administrator indicating that the Configuration is over and you should disable the alarm. After of the process described above the next time the alarm system Started will work with the new configuration.

Claims (7)

1. Advanced security system that integrates the remote monitoring of locations and multiple warning systems, as well as the remote control of devices installed in these places, by means of an installation in the user's premises of a home automation system composed of actuators and sensors; webcams and a server that will manage the local system, characterized in that once the alarm mechanisms or incidents have been configured, the local server will manage these mechanisms through notifications that in SMS, MMS, fax, email and / or video; and the user can access the monitored place from anywhere using a standard mobile device or a computer with an Internet connection, as well as teleoperate the domotic devices installed in the monitored place. 2. Security system according to claim 1 comprising a control of the devices and cameras installed in the user's premises with a mobile communications device or a computer equipment with Internet access, characterized by

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a controller of the home automation bus to which the different devices controlled by the system will be connected;

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he controller will be responsible for reading the status of the sensors and of transmit the instructions to the different actuators installed in the guarded place;

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the physical interface for sending and receiving commands and states It will be the power grid or radio transmission equipment.

3. Security system according to claim 1 or 2 comprising a configuration of actions to be performed automatically or monitored in the user's premises, characterized in that

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the configuration can only be carried out by the user owner or administrator of the security system, whose identity will be checked by a validation procedure that includes: username, password, phone PIN code mobile and single-use keys sent to the mobile phone.

4. Security system according to claim 3 characterized in that the internal actions are the lighting of lights or deterrent devices, and / or power failure. 5. Security system according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that the external notification actions consist of sending SMS, MMS, fax, mail and / or video; These shipments are configured by the system user giving the content to the notices that will appear in the receivers of said notifications; and electronic notifications are digitally signed for the legal authentication of the user who sends said notification. 6. Security system according to claim 3, 4 or 5 characterized in that an accounting of the incidents occurred and the actions carried out is kept. 7. Security system according to the claims
above characterized by a mechanism that maintains
has the premises telematically isolated from attempts to request programs or people not

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