Patent ID: 8305211

Claim:
A method of selectively coupling security installations for area monitoring comprising: determining that a situation responsive to mediation has occurred within an area monitored by a security installation, the security installation having resources for monitoring the area and assets responsive to the security installation for interrogating the area; initiating a peering invitation to a peer installation, the peer installation being an autonomous installation configured to share resources with the security installation for mitigating a cause of the situation, initiating the peering invitation further comprising self authorization by the peer installation, including receiving an indication from the resources of the security installation that the defined set of events has occurred; validating an identity of the peer installation to confirm authorization to connect to the security installation for peering; and permitting access to a resource within the security installation from the peer installation, the permitted access providing communication from the accessed resource to the peer installation and control from the peer installation to an asset within the security installation, the permitted access being temporary and conditional on the exigency of the determined situation.