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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2019
Johnson Controls Fire Protection Lp, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Thomas Wysong Connell, II, Westminster, MA (US);
Alan Levin, III, Bolton, MA (US);
Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
A gunshot detection system provides integration with building management systems installed in a common building. Distributed devices of the building management systems (e.g. light fixtures, smoke detectors, thermostats, exit signs) are positioned throughout the building, and gunshot sensor units of the gunshot detection system are incorporated with, attached to and/or combined with the building management distributed devices. The gunshot sensor units share a common housing with the distributed building management devices, attach to the devices via attachment mechanisms, and/or are incorporated into hybrid devices that include gunshot sensor and building management elements. The gunshot sensor units might comprise reflectors for collecting and focusing sound waves onto microphones of the gunshot sensor units. These reflectors could be existing parts of building management devices, or common housings for the gunshot sensor units and the building management devices, and/or parts of the gunshot sensor units independent of the building management devices.