Patent ID: 9426720
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G05B,G06F,G08B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: a memory storing configuration information for one or more devices comprising one or more security sensors, a security system, and monitoring devices, and mapping information associating the one or more devices, at least one zone, a state change of the one or more devices, and one or more device events with corresponding event tone identifiers, wherein a device event of the one or more device events comprises an action corresponding to a device, wherein a zone comprises a set of the one or more devices having a common characteristic, wherein the configuration information includes a zone function assigned to each security sensor and configuring actions and reactions of the corresponding security sensor and the security system; an audio processor coupled to a speaker; and a processor coupled to the memory and the audio processor, and configured to interpret an event signal corresponding to the one or more device events, the interpreting performed in accord with the configuration information, determine if a first event tone identifier is associated with the interpreted event signal, the determining performed using the mapping information, play a first event tone associated with the first event tone identifier using the audio processor, if the first event tone identifier is associated with the interpreted event signal, and play a default event tone using the audio processor, if no first event tone identifier is associated with the interpreted event signal.