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Two way voice communication through GSM with alarm communication

US8396446B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 15, 2009
Grant dateMar 12, 2013
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Expiry dateJan 30, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L69/14
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An alarm system senses alarm conditions on a premises, reports the occurrence of an alarm condition to a remote monitoring facility and for selected alarm conditions establishes two way voice communications with a person at the monitored premises or elsewhere. Multiple modes of communication are available such as public switched telephone (audio or audio modulated data), GSM (cellular audio), GPRS (cellular packet data), GSM/SMS (cellular text), etc. The programmed processor selects the network and communication protocol to rely on data communications if only data reporting is required. When two way voice communications will be required, the processor can select a network (e.g., GSM) that can be used for both data and audio communications.

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