Patent ID: 9691245
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G08B

Claim:
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 nonlethal disruption device; operatively linking the security sensors, video cameras and nonlethal disruption device to the security alarm panel; installing the security sensors, video cameras and nonlethal disruption device 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; 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; providing a plurality of detectors operatively connected to the security alarm panel, installing the detectors in the building, some of them proximate the hot zone, and displaying the detectors on the building floor plan; remotely activating the nonlethal disruption device when the suspect is proximate the nonlethal disruption device.