Patent ID: 8154581

Claim:
An audio-video communication system, comprising: (a) a wireless exterior module located proximate an entrance, said wireless exterior module having a proximity sensor for detecting a person at the entrance, a video camera for recording an image of the person at the entrance, a microphone for recording sound of the person at the entrance, a speaker for playing audio to the person at the entrance, a transmitter for communicating sounds and images of the person at the entrance, and a receiver for receiving communications at the wireless exterior module; (b) a computerized controller running a software application and disposed in wireless electronic communication with said wireless exterior module via said transmitter and said receiver of said wireless exterior module, wherein said computerized controller is configured to control recording of communications with said wireless exterior module and playback of such recording, and wherein said software application includes a graphic user interface that enables a user to view images from said video camera communicated from said wireless exterior module; and (c) a remote peripheral device configured to electronically communicate with said computerized controller for viewing an image from said video camera communicated from said wireless exterior module.