Patent ID: 7747450
Filing Date: 2010-06-29
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for monitoring use of land, comprising the steps of: identifying a site to be monitored in connection with one or more zones comprising any of a property management zone, an intrusion protection zone, and a resource zone, wherein said site comprises a specific geographic area, and wherein boundaries of said site do not necessarily align with boundaries of a legal description of a property; providing a computer executable logic module said logic module monitoring ongoing land use activities in connection with said site in view of at least one land use restriction which limits how said site can be used, and maintaining data in said logic module that are generated as a result of said monitoring by said logic module wherein said data related to land use activities in conjunction with a particular geographic location of said site are any of automatically generated and provided by third parties; wherein said data further comprise data which vary between different geographic locations within said site, and said at least one land use restriction; providing a database comprising alert criteria which specify when an alert should be generated based upon detection; said logic module monitoring land use activities at said different geographic locations within site, and detecting at least one specific land use activity that violates said at least one land use restriction within said one or more zones; said logic module detecting violation of said at least one of said land use restriction within said one or more zones by matching said alert criteria to said data resulting from said monitoring of one of said different geographic locations within site said logic module generating and providing an alert if a land use violation is detected at at least one of said different geographic locations within site within a zone associated with said site that matches said alert criteria.