US 12,229,611 B2
Alarm system component with unpowered event detection
Pere Moix Olivé, Barcelona (ES)
Assigned to CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Filed by Carrier Corporation, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Filed on Aug. 9, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/446,836.
Application 18/446,836 is a continuation of application No. 17/116,500, filed on Dec. 9, 2020, abandoned.
Claims priority of application No. 20382382 (EP), filed on May 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0385588 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G06K 19/07 (2006.01); G06K 7/00 (2006.01); G06K 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 19/0723 (2013.01) [G06K 7/0008 (2013.01); G06K 17/0022 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A component for use in an alarm system comprising:
a component controller configured to control the component when power is supplied to the component; and
a monitoring module comprising a power source and configured to monitor the component when power is not supplied to the component,
wherein the monitoring module is configured to determine occurrence of a predetermined event and to store an indication of the occurrence of the event;
wherein the component controller is configured to start an initialisation procedure upon connection to a power source during installation of the component in an alarm system, the initialisation procedure comprising transmitting a read request to the monitoring module;
wherein the monitoring module is configured to transmit the stored indication of the occurrence of the predetermined event in response to the read request; and
wherein the component is configured to notify a user in response to the component controller receiving the stored indication of the occurrence of the predetermined event from the monitoring module.