Patent ID: 7015943

Claim:
A security system for monitoring and controlling entry to a premises comprising; a doorbell unit adapted for mounting adjacent an entry door to a premises, the doorbell unit including; (a) a doorbell call button member providing an output signal; (b) an audio microphone member providing an output signal; (c) an audio speaker member adapted for delivering an audio message; (d) a video camera member providing a video output signal; (e) a light source member adapted for illuminating a field of view of the video camera member; a control unit remote from the doorbell unit and in operative communication there with, the control unit including: (a) switch means responsive to the doorbell call button member output signal to activate the control unit; (b) a video display monitor for displaying the doorbell unit video output signal; (c) a digital clock displaying the time of the video display from the doorbell video camera member; (d) a microphone member for sending an audio message to the doorbell unit speaker member; (e) a digital data storage member adapted for storing the doorbell unit video output signal and all audio messages between the doorbell unit and the control unit, the data storage member adapted for selectively sending a prerecorded audio message to the doorbell unit speaker member, and adapted for storing events data and time of events from a sensor and a detector; (f) a speaker member for broadcasting an audio output from the doorbell unit microphone member; (g) circuitry for accessing stored digital video output signals from the video camera member and stored audio messages between the doorbell unit and the control unit; (h) an internet port circuit for accessing video and audio data in real time and for accessing data in the digital data storage member; (i) a power input line for supplying power to the control unit, the doorbell unit receiving power from the control unit; and a door lock control unit in operative communication with the control unit, the door lock control unit having a power input line separate from the control unit power input line, the door lock unit adapted for unlocking the entry door to a premises upon receiving a signal from the control unit.