Patent ID: 9336670
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G08B

Claim Text:
1. A method for engaging a suspect in a building with nonlethal countermeasures inside the building, the method comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of emergency activation transmitters, a plurality of security sensors adapted to receive signals from the emergency activation transmitters, a plurality of video cameras, a security alarm panel, and a plurality of nonlethal disruption devices; operatively linking the security sensors, video cameras and nonlethal disruption devices to the security alarm panel; installing the security sensors, video cameras and plurality of nonlethal disruption devices in a building; upon activation of an emergency activation transmitter, detecting by a security sensor the activation and sending an alarm to the security alarm panel; displaying on the security alarm panel the location of the emergency activation on a building floor plan; installing the plurality of nonlethal disruption devices in a plurality of hot zones in the building, and wherein each nonlethal disruption device is enabled to be remotely activated, and further wherein each nonlethal disruption device is shown on the building floor plan on the security alarm panel; selecting a video camera proximate the location of the emergency activation and displaying the video feed from the selected camera on the security alarm panel; identifying a suspect using the video feed from the video camera; using one or more of the plurality of video cameras to track the location of a suspect and displaying with indicia the suspect location on the building floor plan; installing the nonlethal disruption device in a hot zone in the building and wherein the nonlethal disruption device is enabled to be remotely activated, and further wherein the nonlethal disruption device is shown on the building floor plan on the security alarm panel; remotely activating one of the plurality of nonlethal disruption devices when the suspect is proximate that one of the nonlethal disruption devices; and further wherein the nonlethal disruption devices each comprise one or more canisters of chemical spray.