Honeywell International Inc.

Ademco Inc.

Mike Garavuso

Kevin G Piel

Lewin A Edwards

Piotr Romanczyk

Jonathan Klinger

Tom Babich

Systems and methods for linking neighborhood cameras and recording video from cameras that monitor public areas proximate neighborhood homes are provided. Some methods can include providing a plurality of cameras, each of the plurality of cameras linked to a respective security system in a plurality of security systems, each of the plurality of security systems protecting a respective building in a plurality of buildings, detecting an alarm event in a first security system of the plurality of security systems, and responsive to detecting the alarm event in the first security system, instructing the plurality of cameras to record video of a public area proximate the respective building in the plurality of buildings protected by the respective security system in the plurality of security systems linked to each respective camera in the plurality of cameras.

Neighborhood camera linking system

A method for using a security system to monitor a secured area is provided. The method includes a first processor of the security system providing a status of the security system, including an active status output signal and a disarmed status output signal, a video system monitoring the secured area by capturing and locally saving images, and a second processor of the video system activating one or more video cameras of the video system monitoring an interior space of the secured area upon receipt of the active status output signal and deactivating the one or more video cameras upon receipt of the disarmed status output signal.

Method and apparatus for activating and deactivating video cameras in a security system

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Lindenhurst, NY, United States of America

Mike Garavuso