GB2484462A - Intruder alarm system power supply having a remote communication means associated therewith - Google Patents
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Abstract
An intruder alarm system is disclosed comprising a control panel 1, a control bus 2, and a number of devices 3a-3n attached to the bus and adapted to communicate with the control panel over the bus. A power supply 4 is connected to the control panel. The power supply 4 comprises, or has associated therewith, a communicator 7 for transmitting an alarm signal to a remote monitoring centre 8. The power supply 4 may be located behind a wall or otherwise hidden or located at a secure place where it is difficult to access. The power supply 4 receives a mains power source 6, and may further include a battery back-up power supply 5. The arrangement is particularly suited such that during a delay period between alarm activation and remote communication of an alarm signal, damage to the control panel 1 of the alarm system will not prevent transmission of an alarm signal to the remote monitoring centre 8.
Description
t V.' INTELLECTUAL ..* PROPERTY OFFICE Application No. GB 1016743.5 RTM Date 27 January 2011 The following terms are registered trademarks and should be read as such wherever they occur in this document: WiFi Bluetooth Intellectual Properly Office is an operating name of the Patent Office www.ipo.gov.uk Power Supply This invention relates to a power supply. In particular, it relates to a power supply for an alarm system.
Alarm systems for commercial and domestic premises generally include one or more control panels and a number of devices such as sounders and sensors (which may be fire or smoke sensors, intruder sensors of various sorts or other types of sensors) and a means for the various sensors and control panels to communicate with each other, which is often a wired bus arrangement but may be a wireless buss. Many systems also include means for communicating with an external alarm receiving centre (alarm receiving centre -ARC) which will generally monitor alarms from many different clients or many different sites. Thus, when an alarm is actuated a signal is sent to the ARC and an operator at the ARC can call the owner of the alarm, the police or take other action. The communicator might be a simple modem such as a PSTM (pulse switch telephone modem), or an Internet communication, or a GPRS or 3G modem, or an ISDN modem, or any other system that can pass alarm signals to a remote receiving centre.
The communicator generally forms part of an alarm panel or is directly connected to it so that when the alarm panel receives an alarm actuation, it can immediately cause the communicator to issue the alarm signal to the remote centre.
Many systems include a built-in delay so that after an alarm is actuated an alarm is not actually sent from the communicator to the remote centre for a predetermined time period, which might be up to a few minutes after the alarm has actuated. In some circumstances, this may enable an intruder for example to physically knock the control panel including the communicator, or the communicator off a wall or to otherwise disable the communicator before it can transmit the alarm message.
The present invention arose in an attempt to provide an improved apparatus for signalling an alarm to a remote centre.
According to the present invention there is provided a power supply for an alarm system, comprising, or having associated with it, a means for transmitting an alarm signal to a remote monitoring means.
The means for transmitting an alarm signal is preferably a modem or similar device which can transmit signal over a telephone or a computer network to a remote receiver provided at an alarm receiving centre (ARC) or otherwise.
The transmitting means may be mounted within a housing of a power supply unit.
The power supply unit may be connected to one or more control panels of an alarm system such that alarm signals can be transmitted from the control panel to the power supply unit to thereby actuate the transmitting means.
The transmitting means may alternatively, or in addition, be adapted such that upon failure of a mains supply or failure of a communication link between the power supply and one or more other components in an alarm system, such as a control panel, the transmitting means is adapted to automatically instigate an alarm signal.
The power supply most preferably includes a battery or other back up power supply such that the communicator can send an alarm message autonomously even in the event of mains failure.
The transmitting means may be termed a communicator'.
An embodiment of the present invention will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawing, which shows schematically an intruder alarm system.
Referring to Figure 1, an intruder alarm system comprises one or more control panels and a control bus 2. A single panel 1 is shown by way of example. A number of devices 3a, 3b, ... 3n are attached to the bus and adapted to communicate with the control panel over the bus. In a typical intruder system, some of these devices may be sounders or other alarm signalling devices but most of the devices will be detectors such as PIR (Passive Infra-Red) detectors, door sensors, microwave sensors, combined detectors and many other types of detectors.
A power supply 4 is connected to the control panel. This will be mounted in any convenient location and may be recessed within a wall or other surface. It may be located behind a wall or otherwise hidden or located at a secure place where it very difficult to access. It may also be placed in a discrete position where its location is not obvious.
The power supply receives a mains power supply source 6 and preferably also includes a battery or other reserve power supply 5 as a back-up power supply and this may be rechargeable. A communicator 7 is associated with the power supply. Most preferably, this is mounted within the housing 8 of the power supply. Alternatively, it may be bolted or otherwise affixed by screws, glue or any other means to the housing or may be a device which is otherwise connected or associated with the power supply.
The communicator 7 may be a PSTM modem, an Internet communicator, a GPRS, 3G or 4G modem, an ISDN device or any other device which pass alarm signals over a network such as a telephone network and/or a data network, and which may be any wired system, or a wireless system (such as using WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular networks, or other means) to a remote alarm receiving centre 8. The transmission path is shown schematically by dotted lines 9.
The alarm receiving centre (ARC) 8 may of course receive alarms from many different sites and the functioning of these is well-known.
The power supply 4 may be connected to the control panel I by a simple power cable or by a connection which allows single or bi-directional data communication. h this way, when the power supply receives an alarm signal from a connected device such as device 3a, it can provide an immediate signal to the power supply 4 and hence to the communicator 7, but the ARC 8 is to be notified. Even if the communicator 7 is arranged to allow for a delay of up to a few minutes say before it begins transmitting the signal, once it has received the alarm notification from the control panel, it is set'. Thus, even if the control panel is subsequently disabled, perhaps violently by an intruder, as long as he cannot access, or at least realise that the power supply has a communicator, the communicator will still issue its appropriate signal, over the connection route 9 to the ARC 8.
It may in practice be very difficult for an intruder to discover where the communicator actually is and so by the time the alarm panel has been disabled the communicator will already be ready to send its message autonomously. Even if the mains supply is disabled, the battery back up 5 in the power supply is used to power the communicator.
Communicator information may be transmitted over the key pad, control panel and expander bus (so that the communicator knows what to send).
For example, the bus may carry, as part of this system: Power Specific alarm signal commands eg intruder alarm', confirmed alarm', system set' and a reverse tamper' signal if someone tries to open the communicator box or remove it from the wall.
Text strings originating from the alarm system eg intruder alarm sitting room' and free-format text if required Fault signals comms fail path A, comms fail path B' low GSM 13 0 signal strength, etc Other miscellaneous housekeeping signals.
It may carry any or none of these or other types of information or data and the above
are only examples.
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Communication may be uni-directional or bi-directional.
Thus, the communicator (transmitting means) may be provided with means for communicating with one or more other components of an alarm system. This may be over the system bus, including link L
Claims (15)
- Claims 1. A power supply for an alarm system, comprising, or having associated with it, a means for transmitting an alarm signal to a remote monitoring means.
- 2. A power supply as claimed in Claim 1, wherein the means for transmitting comprises a device for transmitting a signal over a network to a remote receiver.
- 3. A power supply as claimed in Claim 1 or Claim 2, wherein the network is a telephone or computer network.
- 4. A power supply as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the transmitting means is mounted within or upon a housing of a power supply unit.
- 5. A power supply as claimed in any preceding claim, adapted to be connected to one or more control panels of an alarm system such that an alarm signal can be transmitted from the control panel to the power supply to thereby actuate the communicator.
- 6. A power supply as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the transmitting means is adapted such that upon failure of a mains supply, and/or upon failure of any communication link between the power supply and one or more other components in an alarm system, the communicator is adapted to automatically transmit an alarm signal.
- 7. A power supply as claimed in Claim 6, wherein the communicator automatically transmits the alarm signal after a delayed period.
- 8. A power supply as claimed in any preceding claim, including a back-up power supply such that the transmitter can send an alarm message autonomously even in the event of mains failure.
- 9. A power supply as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the transmitting means includes means for communicating with one or more other components of an alarm system.
- 10. A power supply substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to, and as illustrated by, the accompanying drawings.
- 11. An alarm system comprising a power supply and at least one other component connected to the power supply, adapted such that upon an alarm event being triggered by said component or a component attached thereto, a signal is sent to the transmitter to cause the transmitter to transmit an alarm signal.
- 12. An alarm system as claimed in Claim 1, wherein the transmitter is capable of communicating with one or more other components of the alarm system.
- 13. Apparatus as claimed in Claim 10 or 11, wherein the additional component is a control panel.
- 14. Alarm apparatus substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to, and as illustrated by, the accompanying drawings.
- 15. A method of transmitting an alarm signal to a remote device or site from an alarm system substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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DE4212114A1 (en) * | 1992-04-10 | 1993-10-14 | Frank Ebert | Anti-theft electronic alarm system for movable objects - has battery-powered transmitter with built in sensor fixed to object that transmit signal to remote receiver that can also control alarm |
US7019646B1 (en) * | 2002-10-08 | 2006-03-28 | Noel Woodard | Combination smoke alarm and wireless location device |
GB2397380A (en) * | 2003-01-15 | 2004-07-21 | Stephen Butler | water level indicator |
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