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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2016
Ecolink Intelligent Technology, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Michael Lamb, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Kenneth Sweeney, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Ecolink Intelligent Technologies, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a central security monitoring device for reducing incidences of false alarms in a security system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is described, comprising receiving an alarm signal from an occupancy sensor via a receiver, receiving a second alarm signal from a barrier alarm device after receiving the alarm signal, determining an elapsed time from when the alarm signal from the occupancy sensor was received to when the second alarm signal from the barrier alarm device was received, performing one or more actions when the elapsed time is greater than the predetermined time, and refraining from performing the one or more actions when the elapsed time is less than the predetermined time.