Device, method and system for reducing network bandwidth usage when providing alerts

Abstract

A device receives an indication of an incident associated with a given premises, the device having access to: network addresses associated with individuals associated with the given premises, and electronic roles and schedules of the individuals. The device classifies the individuals as recipients or nonrecipients of alerts for the incident based on the roles/schedules, and determines respective current activity classifications of the recipients and nonrecipients based on the roles/schedules. The device identifies, from the current activity classifications, respective relationship statuses between the recipients and nonrecipients, and generates at least one alert based on the respective relationship statuses, the at least one alert including instructions for a recipient to carry out relative to respective nonrecipients. The device transmits, over a network, the at least one alert to respective network addresses associated with the recipients, and refrains transmitting the at least one alert to the respective network addresses associated with the nonrecipients.