Patent ID: 9728021
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06K,G07C,G08B

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: a building information model (BIM) defined by a set of geographic coordinates of a secured area embodied in a memory; a security system that protects the secured area, the security system including a control panel: a plurality of security devices located within the secured area, wherein each of the plurality of security devices includes a respective short range wireless transceiver, and wherein each of the plurality of security devices is wirelessly connected to the control panel using a respective wireless transceiver; and a portable user device that includes a portable device wireless transceiver, a global positioning system (GPS), and a programmed processor that interrogates the respective short range wireless transceiver of each of the plurality of security devices for identification and functional information of a respective security device as a user of the portable user device traverses the secured area and that saves the identification and functional information with first geographic coordinates of each of the plurality of security devices under the BIM in the memory, the first geographic coordinates determined using the GPS, wherein the programmed processor of the portable user device transfers the identification and functional information and the first geographic coordinates of each of the plurality of security devices under the BIM to the control panel of the security system, and wherein, after transferring the identification and functional information and the first geographic coordinates of each of the plurality of security devices to the control panel, the programmed processor of the portable user device sends a message to each of the plurality of security devices to activate each of the plurality of security devices as the portable user device re-interrogates the respective short range wireless transceiver of each of the plurality of security devices.