Patent ID: 8791817

Claim:
A method for monitoring a location comprising: providing an entry detection device; monitoring one or more entryways of a building with the entry detection device to detect when an entryway of the building is being opened; providing a residential wireless access point within the building in communication with and physically located away from the entry detection device; responsive to detecting an entryway of the building being opened with the entry detection device, monitoring for a presence of one or more wireless devices with the residential wireless access point; providing a remote wireless device monitoring system in communication with the residential wireless access point over a network; responsive to detecting the presence of a wireless device within the range of the residential wireless access point, determining an identifier comprising a telephone number associated with the wireless device with the remote wireless device monitoring system; determining with the remote wireless device monitoring system whether the identifier associated with the wireless device is registered with the residential wireless access point; and responsive to the identifier associated with the wireless device being unregistered with the residential wireless access point, performing a user-specified event with the remote wireless device monitoring system comprising placing a telephone call to the wireless device.