Patent ID: 9293029
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G06F,G08B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for monitoring a plurality of sensors of specific monitoring systems belonging to respective multiple organizations; the method comprising: (a) processing a sensor registration request for each of said sensors, wherein the sensor registration request comprises an organization identifier, a sensor identifier and an authorization level; (b) associating a geographic location with the sensor; (c) processing sensor output information from said sensors to detect an emergency condition; (d) identifying whether each requesting recipient having a recipient authorization level is either authorized or unauthorized for the detected emergency condition with steps comprising: (e) creating and then sending to at least one requesting recipient a list of authorized sensors and unauthorized sensors of said plurality of sensors that are within a proximate distance to the detected emergency condition, wherein a sensor of said plurality of sensors is determined as an authorized sensor if the recipient authorization level of the requesting recipient is at least the same as a sensor authorization level of said sensor, and a sensor of said plurality of sensors is determined as an unauthorized sensor if the recipient authorization level of the requesting recipient is below a sensor authorization level of said sensor; and (f) if at least one authorized recipient is determined, creating and then sending an emergency condition report comprising sensor output information from an authorized sensor that is within the proximate distance to the detected emergency condition to the authorized recipient.