Patent ID: 9483933
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: E05F,G05B,G08B,H04L

Claim Text:
1. An automated, computerized, method of pro-active building protection from weather condition damage comprising: I) at a master controller, receiving a weather alert, via a weather alert message receiver, indicating a particular weather condition will be occurring within an area encompassing a perimeter about a building, the perimeter having been established by multiple sensors positioned around the building; II) in response to the weather alert, automatically executing a specific protocol from among multiple automated protocols, stored in non-transient storage and accessible to the master controller, to thereby cause at least some of multiple actuators that are connected to protective devices of the building to change at least one protective device from a non-protective position to a protective position; III) receiving a signal at the master controller that is specified by the specific protocol, the signal being one of: IV) in response to receipt of the specific-protocol specified signal, automatically signaling the at least some actuators to return the at least one protective device to the non-protective position.