Patent ID: 8620841
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: G05D,G06N,G08B,H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A event-forecasting system comprising: a measurement database that stores a plurality of sensor measurements, each sensor measurement having been provided by a thermostat device, wherein a primary purpose of each thermostat device is to control a temperature condition within a structure in addition to collecting measurements from a non-temperature related sensor that collected the sensor measurement, wherein said non-temperature related sensor is selected from the group consisting of: seismic activity sensors hazard related environmental sensors, microphones optical sensors and radiation sensors; a measurement set identifier that selects a set of sensor measurements from the plurality of sensor measurements provided by the thermostat devices in the measurement database, wherein the thermostat devices associated with the set of sensor measurements are in close geographical proximity relative to their geographical proximity to other devices; an inter-device correlator that accesses the selected set of sensor measurements provided by the thermostat devices and that collectively analyzes the sensor measurements; an event detector that determines whether an event has occurred based on the results of the collective analysis, wherein the determination that an event has occurred requires that a criterion involving at least two of the sensor measurements provided by the thermostat devices be satisfied; an event forecaster that forecasts a future event property, wherein the future event property is forecasted based on a same or different collective analysis of the sensor measurements provided by the thermostat devices; and an alert engine that identifies one or more entities to be alerted of the future event property, that generates at least one alert identifying the future event property, and that transmits the at least one alert to the identified one or more entities.