Patent ID: 8072493

Claim:
A security system, comprising: a building incorporating alternating current electric wiring wired between an electrical fixture and an electrical outlet; an alternating current electric powered motion sensor assembly supported by the electrical fixture and wired to the alternating current electric wiring of the building, the alternating current electric powered motion sensor assembly including a motion sensor and a digital camera lens; a direct current electric powered self-contained security module, the security module including a plug, a cellular transceiver operatively coupled to a storage device, a digital camera mechanism operatively coupled to the storage device, and a transformer operatively coupled to the cellular transceiver, the storage device, and the digital camera mechanism; the plug of the security module plugged into the electrical outlet of the building coupling the security module to the alternating current electric wiring of the building; the alternating current electric wiring wired between the electrical fixture and the electrical outlet providing alternating current electric power to the motion sensor assembly and to the security module, and operatively coupling the digital camera mechanism to the motion sensor and to the digital camera lens; the transformer converting the alternating current electric power from the wiring to direct current electric power and supplying the direct current electric power to the security module; the digital camera mechanism responsive to activation of the motion sensor detecting motion in a vicinity of the motion sensor activating the camera lens to make digital imagery of an area in the vicinity, receiving the digital imagery made by the camera lens over the wiring, and storing the digital imagery in the storage device; and the cellular transceiver adapted to retrieve the stored digital imagery from the storage device and transmit the stored digital imagery to a cellular appliance across a cellular telephonic network.