CA1272773A - Electronic surveillance system and transceiver unit therefor - Google Patents
Electronic surveillance system and transceiver unit thereforInfo
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Abstract
Abstract A transceiver unit for an electronic surveillance system is internally coded with an address-number for identification within the system and is adapted to receive input from sensors detecting alarm conditions. The unit is switchable from an idle condition wherein it transmits digital data relevant to its address-number and status but does not recognize input from a sensor, to a primed condition wherein it transmits digital data relevant to its address-number and status information indicating an alarm condition. The unit is able to receive digital data from other similar units sequentially and display information relevant to the identity and status thereof.
In a security system a plurality of such units communicate with each other and in turn transmit said digital data simultaneously to all the other units of the system either by hard wiring thereto, radio link or other transmission medium whereby an alarm condition detected by one unit is recognized at all other units of the system. Remote switching of a unit from idle to primed by any of the other units is disclosed.
In a security system a plurality of such units communicate with each other and in turn transmit said digital data simultaneously to all the other units of the system either by hard wiring thereto, radio link or other transmission medium whereby an alarm condition detected by one unit is recognized at all other units of the system. Remote switching of a unit from idle to primed by any of the other units is disclosed.
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~2'~ 3 ELECTRO~IC 8URV~Ir~LAN~E SYSTEM AND TRANSCEIVER
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1 This inventlon relates to an electronic surveillance system
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1 This inventlon relates to an electronic surveillance system
2 and more partlcularly to an electronic surveillance system
3 wherein serial digital transceiver units placed at separate
4 locations are adapted to communicate with each other. The invention has particular utility in localized security 6 against intruders such as householder's neighbourhood watch 7 security system as has become popular in more recent times, 8 although it will be readil~ evident that the invention is 9 not limited to this particular application and can be used in many industrial applications such as for monitoring 11 machine functions or cycles.
12 A neighbourhood watch system involves a group of 13 neighbours forming together and takin8 turns of watching 14 the residence of each other member of the group during periods when a residence is vacant. Such a system has been 16 effective in reducing the incidence of household burglaries 17 but is difficult to co-ordinate and often causes 1~ inconvenience in that members have to continually report 19 their movements to the person who is "on-watch7'.
Furthermore, the task of watching other residences is 21 extremely onerous and sometimes involves the person on watch 22 having to move away from the safety of his or her own 23 residence to observe the vacant house of another member. As 24 well as these disadvantages there are a number of others such as the possibility that another alarm condition like a 26 fire, for example, may not be discovered externally of a 27 residence until it has established a firm hold inside and 28 already caused considerable damage.
29 As an alternative or adjunct to a n2ighbourhood watch system there are a number of electronic surveillance systems 31 which are known and available in Australia. Generally such 32 electronic systems include one or more sensors which detect 33 conditlons such as intrusion or fire (smoke or heat) and 34 upon detection sound an alarm. The alarm i9 desired to alert neighbours and/or cause ~he nervous intruder to panic 36 and thu~ leave the premises prematurely and ~ithout takin8 37 any valuables. The electronic systems are of assistance in 38 deterrin8 or distracting ~ould be burglar~ but in a ~2~27'73 1 neighbourhood watch system still require householders to 2 advise others when they vacate their home and also perhaps 3 details of how to deactiYate the electronic surveillance 4 system.
More sophisticated electronic systems are able to 6 communicate with base stations at remote locations and 7 report alarm conditions such as intrusion or fire but whilst 8 some systems have radio controlled security vehicles 9 mobilized at all times to attend premises where an alarm condition is detected there are often inordinate delays in 11 security vehicles reaching premises and this is a major 12 disadvantage of these systems. Furthérmore, the large 13 number of false alarms which occur with sensitive 14 electronic monitoring devices such as infra-red detectors and the like causes a major inefficiency of these "base 1~ station" systems.
17 Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to 18 provide an improved electronic surveillance system which 19 overcomes one or more of the aforementioned pro~lems of existing security systems.
21 Thus, the in~ention provides an electronic surveillance 22 system comprising a plurality of transceiver units at spaced 23 locations within the system, characterized in that each 24 said unit is adapted to tranmsit digital data in turn, simultaneously to the other units of the system at an 26 exclusive time slot in a cycle of operation, said daea 27 identifies the particular unit transmitting data and 28 provides status information, each said unit is further 29 adapted to recognize, at all times, a said transmission from any other unit of the system and also identify a 31 tran3mission from the immediately preceding unit in said 32 cycle, and perform a said transmission next in turn 33 thereafter, the unit last in said cycle is adapted to 34 transmit coded information such that the flrst unit in said cycle can identify the end of a cycle and recommence, and 36 each said unit is adapted to respond to the failure of any 37 one unit of the system to transmit ~aid data in turn, or to 38 status information received.
WO ~7~)711 PC-r/AIlJ'86/002()9 ~n order thct the lnv~ntlon m~y be ~ore r~adlly 2 und~r~l~ood, on~ pnrticulflr embodilDent ~lll now be de~crlbçd 3 with reference to the accompsnyinu drAwing~ wherein:
4 F~G. l l~ ~ si~pllfied circult block diagra~ of a S tran~colYer unle for use ln ~n èl~ctronic gurvelllance 6 9y~tem Qccordlng to the invent$on, and 7 FIG. 2 i~ 8 mote d~t~lled clrcult block dlahran~ of the 8 ~:r~nqc~i ver un~ hown in FIG, 1.
9 The par~icul~r tran~ceiv~r unlt according to this embodi~ent 1~ for uYe in a household securi~y syAtem ~uch a~
ll 8 neigh~ourhood wat~h syste~. Su¢h ~ sy~tem include~ a 12 number of ~lmllar transce~ver unlt~ whlch in ~se are placed 13 ~n sep~rate hou~e~ within a localized are~ and are connected 14 to~ether by wires or ~re adapted to commun~cste with e~ch other by other ~eanq such as r~dlo tran~ittlng ~nd 16 reç~lvlng ~e~ns, flbre-optic llnk or infr~-red b~sm.
17 ~cordlng to thls embodl~ent, the unit~ ar~ ~onnected by 18 t.riated p~ir wire~.
l~ Ea~h tr~nscelver unlt i~ pro~smmet to sequentlal ly 20 report ~ ts ~tatus to each of the other units of the system 21 and ~n option~l keyboard 10 i8 provlded whereby sny unit may 22 ~e used to tr~nsmlt a command ~o any other unit, or ~3 interrogate the sy~tem for ~erviclng purposes, a~ w~ll 24 becv~e ~ppsrent herelnbelow.
~5 ~9 i~ ovl~ent ln FIG.l, e~h unit cor~pri~es a mlcro 26 proce~or 11, progra~ ROM 12, interface ports l~a, I3~, 13c, 27 13d. dlsplay 14, and crystal o~clll~or 15 which are 28 connected together ln the ~ann~r ~hown. In FIG. 1 the 2~ keybo~rd 10 and dl~pl~y 14 are ~ncorporated in ~ 6ingl~ unlt 1~. Ths ~n~rf~c~ port 13a provlde3 an ~nte~fsce for 31 control and 3t~tU9 ~ignflla ~nd ~lerm inputs, interf~cc port 32 l~b pr~Yldes sn interf~ce wlth the k~yboard lO flnd dlspl~
33 14, interf~c0 port 13c ~nabl~ th~ customer address ~o be 34 3et ~nd lnterf~ce port 13d enables the ~t~tion ~ddre~ to be s~t. In ~ddl~lon ~ seri~l ln~erfaee port 17 prov1d~s 36 ~omm~n~c4tlon ~lth other unlts of the sg~t~ a t~o ~re 3~ llne (not ~hovn~ connected ~o the terminala la~ The dlsplar 38 14 compr~ werning lamp~, aud~ble al8-~ Qnd dl~ltAl Z~3 1 readout.
2 In addition to the above the transceiver unit includes 3 timers/counters 19 and crystal oscillator 20 as shown.
4 Reference should now be made to FIG. 2 where the various components are described in more detail. The system 6 transceiver units or stations are identical, each bein8 7 centred around the microprocessor 11 which in this 8 embodiment is an 8031 integrated circuit labelled ICl which 9 incorporates a serial communication port RXD, TXD, interrupt structure, the timers/co~lnters 19, RAM and input/output 11 ports ADO-AD7. The latter two are further expanded by use 12 of an 8155 programmable peripheral interface, IC4. The 13 program controlling the system resides in the ROM 12 which 14 is a 2732 shown as IC3 supported by a 74LS373 address demultiplexing latch IC2.
16 Communication between transceiver units is achieved on 17 a two wire parallel line joining all stations through 18 inte rface 17 which is an RS~422 PROTOCOL
19 transmitter/receiver combination represented by devices IC5 and IC6 to the ICl serial communication ports RXD, T~D. IC5 21 is a 26LS31 and IC6 is a 26LS32. System status display is 22 provided by four 7-segment displays and 4 lamps all of which 23 are driven by an M~5450 device IC5, using data from IC1.
24 Finally, the keyboard 10 which is optional may be used for system checking or remote control of another station's 26 functions. The keyboard is encoded by IC8 which is a 74C922 Z7 with binary outputs read directly by one of ICl's ports. To 28 facilitate the identification of units within the system 29 each is given a number (referred to as the station address which is its internal number and is part of an integral 31 series of continuing numbers) such that the first is ~ero, 32 the next is one and so on up to the basic system capacity of 33 16 units. These station addre~ses are set on dual-in-line 34 switches (not shown) whose state is read b~ the port 27 of the IC4. TQ identify the locations of the stationq for the 36 user, it may be desirable to have some other numbering 37 system (such as house address number) so this is catered for 38 by allowing a 3 diglt blnary coded decimal number to be set ~,~7~7~
1 (the user address) again on dual-ln-11ne switches read by 2 port 2a at IC4. Port 29 i9 a spare. In addition the las~
3 station in the system is lndicated when the number of units 4 is less than 16, by switching the input P3.5 of ICl ~o a low level, by a signal on line 22, on that unit only.
6 Each transcei~er unit or station is in either of 2 7 modes as far as the user is concerned. The first is the 8 IDLE mode where no alarm is detected at that station, but 9 communication from and to, all other stations is carried on continuously, and alarms arising at other stations will be 11 recognized and reported. The second is the primed mode, 12 where an alarm detected at that station will be transmitted 13 to other stations in the systems. Switching from IDLE to 14 primed mode is done via a key switch (not shown) indicating lS its state on line 23 to a port input P3.4 on ICl. An alarm 16 detect input 24 is provided to ICl's interrupt input, INTl.
17 This may accept a logic level change from any of the wide 18 variety of alarm detecting devices which may be available.
19 When a keybcard 10 is pro~ided the program allows input from the keyboard to activate a number of display modes.
21 The 74C922 keyboard encoder IC8 generates an interrupt each 22 time a key is pressed by sending a pulse to the INTo 23 interrupt input of IC1, which will read the o~tput of the 24 encoder IC8 via ICl's input port pins, during the interrupt service routine. The ke~board commands include:
26 1. Display sequentially the station addresses.
27 2. Displa~ sequentially ehe customer addresses.
28 3. Clear.
29 4. Remote prime.
Display modes 1 and 2 are provided for testing, setting up 31 and checking of the system. When an alarm is detected at a 32 primed unit it will report this to all other units when next 33 it transmits. The other units will all indicate the alarm 34 by displaying the customer address of the alarm site showing alarm detected status lamp and alarm warning lamp on the 36 lamps 25 and sounding the beeper 26. The alarm warning lamp 37 and beeper are turned off after 10 minutes approximately.
38 The unit where the alarm has been detected or an~ other ~1 27~3 1 primed unit behaves the same, except that the alarm lamp snd 2 beeper.are not activated, and after the 10 min~te intervaL
3 an external warning lamp/siren (not shown) is activated.
4 Where more than one alarm is detected in the system the displays 14 of each unit will show the location address 6 sequentially on their displays. Furthermore,since the units 7 are repeatedly transmitting their status whether in the ~ primed mode or not, and whether an alarm is detected or not, 9 it is possible to detect any transmission failure since each station expects to see a transmission in sequence from 11 each other station. Such failure(s) are reported on all 12 units by showing the location addresses which have not been 13 received. Since each unit also receives and checks its own 14 transmissions, this can also include its own location address. This feature allows early detection of any fault 16 which may impair the operation of the system. Units still 17 transmitting and receiving will still function normally 18 however.
19 The serial communication port of ICl handles all transmission and reception between units and is interrupt 21 driven by the program. The first phase of the sequence of 22 transmissions is called the report phase.
23 When each unit has reported in sequence~ the second 24 phase begins where remote priming transmissions are made, if required (this is referred to as the "com~and phase"). When 2~ all units have had an opportunity to transmit in their 27 sequence during the report phase, the entire process begins 28 again and the whole sequence of report phase and command 29 phase is termed a "frame". At the completion of each frame a~ approximately one second intervals, the display is 31 updated.
32 If any unit is not on the system is faulty, or its 33 transmission is not valid, the o~her units use their timers 34 to determine when they expect the transmission and carry on 3S regardless. There is nominally 60 ms between the 36 transmission of one station and that of the next.
37 To ensure that all the units stay in step over long 38 periods, at the comp:Letion of each valid 3tatus transmission 2~
1 in each unit, the timers in each are reset to leave 8 ms of 2 the 60.ms time segment to go before the start of the next 3 unit's segment as well as takin8 the station number of the 4 last unit received to update where in the sequence the system has reached.
6 This timer update is not done during the command phase 7 where the timers/counters l9 keep track of how many of the 8 ICl timer interrupts of 60 ms duration have gone by. More 9 often than not there will be no transmission in the command ~0 phase,since it is only there for remote control of another ll station's priming.
12 Turning now to the unit's specific function: At 13 switch-on, the microprocessors external reset circuit 14 ensures that the unit is allowed to settle before the program execution begins.
16 The microprocessor ICl looks at the bottom of ROM, IC3 17 for its first instruction which is a jump to the main body 18 of the program in ROM.
19 It begins by clearing all the RAM which will later be used for storing information from transmissions of units in 21 the system, for internal flags, for counters and temporary 22 buffers.
23 The program executes a time delay of about 60 ms, then 24 goes ahead to initialize the controlling registers of the station hardware.
26 Timer l (not shown) within ICl is dedicated to baud 27 rate generation for the serial communications port and is 28 set in the auto-reload mode with a value to give a baud rate 29 of l200 baud.
Timer O (NOT SHOWN) also within IC1 is set up as a 16 31 bit timer which will generate an interrupt when it 32 overf 1ow9. A counter of ICl is set to an initial value so 33 that it will count for 60 ms before generating the 34 interrupt.
The serial communications port of ICl is initialized as 36 a 8 bit UART, interrupt drive. Interrupts rom the keyboard 37 and alarm input are set as edge triggered, and the serial 38 port and tioer O are given the higher priority interrupt 7~3 1 level.
Interrupts are then enabled and the interface IC4 is 3 initialized as all inputs. The display buffer RAM (part of 4 ICl) is loaded with the idle di~play indication and status lamps all off and the display buffer RAM is clocked out to 6 the IC7 display controller by the program. The line to 7 other units is checked by examining the level at the 8 receiver input pin at 2ms intervals over 10 ms (i.e. 5x~.
9 If the line is in use (low level detected) the program goes back to the start otherwise it continues by starting the 11 timers and clearing 3 regi~ters in RAM used as the frame 12 counter, state counter and time counter.
13 Interrupts are enabled by setting the enable bit in 14 CLl.
(A) A subroutine is called ~hich reads the customer address 16 and station address from IC'4s ports, storing the values in 17 RAM used as a transmit buffer. In addition the status bits 18 as shown in the transmitted data format are set to their 19 appropriate values by checking port pins and internal flags.
Another routine is carried out whlch examines the prime 21 input 23 again and sets the state of a prime lamp bit in the Z2 alarm statu~ display register appropriately. Also the state 23 of the remote prime flag is checked, to prime the alarm if 24 required when not primed locally. If the prime input has gone from an 'On' to 'Off' position in two passes of the 26 routine, then the existing alarm state for this unit is 27 cleared, as well as the relevant bits of the alarm status 28 display register.
29 The value of the frame counter is now checked. If it has equalled 31, then the displa~ routine is to be executed.
31 If less than 31, the current value of the time counter is 32 compared with the state counter. If they are not equal the 33 program goes back to (A) and repeats all the steps until the 34 2 counters are equal to this point.
When state and time counters are equal, a check is made 36 to find out if the ~tate counter is less than or equal to 15 37 or, greater than or equal to 16. If the former it is in the 38 first or "report phase". If in the latter, it is in the 7~3 g 1 second or "command phase". During the report phase, the 2 program. now directs the micro-processor to read the station 3 address from IC4. If the station address equals the state 4 counter, then it is the station's turn in the state sequence to transmlt, so the line is checked in ~he same way as at 6 the start of the program and if OK the transmit subroutine 7 is called which generates an interrupt for the serial port 8 interrupt service routine to be executed, which will 9 transmit the bytes residing in the transmit buffer RAM
sequentially with appropriate start and stop characters.
11 The sub-routine waits for the interrupt routine to send all 12 the message by checking the transmitted character counter in 13 RAM and generatin8 further interrupts until it has reached 14 the count of 6, indicating that 5 characters have been sent.
Now the program loops until the serial communications 16 port receive flag has been set, which will a8ain generate an 17 interrupt for the receive portion of the serial port 18 interrupt service routine to handle.
19 The state counter is then incremented, and the program jumps back to (A) where the process star~s again. If it was 21 not the station's turn to transmit in the sequence, the 22 state counter is incremented and the jump is made back to 23 (A).
24 In the command phase, the program is much the same as described for the report phase, except that a transmission 26 is made in sequence only if it is required to, by a command 27 address having been entered by the keyboard. If this is the 28 case the transmit buffer is loaded with the command code and 29 customer address from the command address buffer before transmitting. Once transmitted, the command address buffer 31 is cleared, and the display buffer is set to the idle 32 display.
33 When the frame has been completed (fr~e counter = 31) 34 the display update is performed. The data recorded from each unit i9 stored sequentially in an area of RAM. At 36 each pass of the display update routine, the pointer for 37 this RAM area is incremented to the next unit RA~. This 38 pointer i9 used to find the next station's reseived data in '73 1 RAM.
2 The display update first checks if the report address 3 buffer has any information, if so, this is moved to the 4 display buffer with the interrogation display code. If this was the case, it then jumps ahead to (B). Otherwise it 6 checks if a request for a station address test is required.
7 If so, the pointer is used to find the next station address 8 in RAM and is put in the display buffer along with the 9 station address display code. If this was the case it then jumps ahead to (B). Otherwise it checks if the keyboard has 11 asked for the station address test to be completed. If so, 12 the display buffer is set to the idle display and the 13 program jumps to (B). Otherwise it checks if the ctlstomer 14 address test has been requested from the keyboard. If so, the next customer address is found in RAM using the pointer, 1~ and loaded into the display buffer with the customer address 17 test code, and then the program jumps to (B). Otherwise it 18 checks if the customer address test has been asked to be 19 completed. I so, the displa~ buffer is set to the idle display and the program jumps to (B). Otherwise the 21 pointer is used to find the status bits of the next station 22 to be displayed. If the status bits shown an invalid 23 transmission, the station's customer address is loaded into 24 the display buffer with the invalid transmission code, and then jumped to (B). If the status bits shown an alarm 26 condition for the station to be displayed, the station's 27 customer address is loaded into the display buffer with the 28 alarm code, then jumped to (B). Otherwise the display 29 buffer is set to idle mode if it contains any invalid station display, and if the RA~ pointer is pointing to this 31 station's own data (checked by comparing ~AM station address 32 with that from IC4 ports) then the alarm display register is 33 updated appropriaeely by checking the microprocessor alarm 34 f~ags, prime flag etc.
(B) The program reads the station address ~rom IC4 and 36 compares it with the address in the display buffer. If the 37 address is that of this unit, then appropriate action of 38 alarm beepers is set in the alarm display register. If an ~L~727~3 1 alarm from another unie is indlcated, the alarm delay 2 re~ister is also set to give the required alarms. The alarm 3 timeout flag is also checked to turn off the beepers after 4 the required interval.
The display is now updated by clocking the display 6 buffer and alarm status display registers out to IC7. The 7 RAM pointer fc- the display data is incremented to the next 8 station's storage area. A check is made to find if the last 9 station display was the last in the system. If it was, the status bits of each station's data in the RAM area are 11 cleared (which means that new data must be received or else 12 invalid transmission will be indicated) and the RAM pointer 13 is reset to the first station's RAM address. Then or, if it 14 was not the last station, the program loops until the time counter reaches the count of 32 indicating the complete 16 frame time is over, and then the time, frame and state 17 counters are cleared and the program jumps back to (A).
19 Interrupts to the unit come from four sources; the keyboard, the alarm input, the serial port and the timer.
21 The timer and the serial port interrupts fall within 22 particular time frames, but the keyboard and alarm input ~3 interrupts will arrive at random. To guard a~ainst loss of 24 any of the programs working registers, the interrupt service programs always begin with ICl working registers 26 (accumulator, data pointer, program status word, etc.) being 27 pushed onto the micro-processor stack. The service routine 28 ends with the same registers being correspondingly popped 29 of f the stack.
The keyboard interrupt service routine begins by 31 readin8 the keyboard data from the relevant port pins of 32 ICl, and translating the data read to an appropriate code~
33 by use of a look-up table. If the code indicates that the 34 customer address test key was pressed, toggle the customer address test function and 8 to (D). Else if the code was 36 the clear key, clear the customer address test function, 37 station address test function, remote prime flag and remote 38 prime address buffer register, then 8 to (D). Else if 7~3 ~ ., ~.
1 the code was the sta~lon address test key, toggle the 2 station address te~t function and 8 to (D). Else if the 3 code was that of the remote prime key, ~et the remote prime 4 address flflg if not already set. Set the send remote prime flag lf the remote prime address flag is set. Clear the 6 remote prime address flag if it was set, ehen go to (D).
7 Else if the remote prime address flag is clear to go to (D).
8 Otherwise take the key code and roll it into the remote 9 prime address buffer memorg, since this is an entry of an address for the command transmission.
11 (D) Return from Interrupt.
12 The alarm input service routine checks if the unit is 13 primed. If not, it simply returns from the interrupt.
14 Otherwise, the alarm detected flag is set, the alarm timer counter is reset, and the alarm time-out fla8 is cleared, 16 and then it returns from the interrupt.
17 The timer interrupt occurs at regular 60 ms intervals 18 since once the interrupt occurs, the timer counter is reset 19 to its starting value, which is selected to give a 60 ms period to overflow. The routine then increments the frame 21 and time counters.
22 Also, if the alarm detected flag has been set, the 23 alarm timer counter is increment~d and checked to see if it 24 has reached its final value. If it has, the alarm time-out flag is set. Otherwi~e the program returns from the 26 interrupt.
27 Finally, the serial port interrupt routine is in two 28 parts. If the interrupt comes from the transmit side 29 (controlled by the transmlt routine of the main program) the program checks if the transmitted byte counter is 6, if 31 it is the transmitter enable to IC5 is turned off, and the 32 program jumps to the receive section. If not, the 33 transmitter enable to IC5 is turned on and the transmitted 34 byte counter checks to see if lt is at the end of the message. If not the counter is used to take the character 36 corresponding to it~ count from the transmi~ter holding 37 buffer and load it into the transmitter. If it is at the 38 end of the mes~age the carriage return character is loaded 1 into the transmitter. After any of these events the 2 transmitted byte counter is incremented and the program 3 carries on to the receive rout:Lne.
4 The receive routine begins by checking the receive interrupt flag. If not set it returns from the interrupt, 6 otherwise carries on. The interrupt fla~ is cleared, and 7 the received byte unloaded from the receiver and checked to 8 see it if is the start of a new message by inspecting the 9 byte for correspondence to the start of message bits e~pected. If it is the start of the message, the received ll character counter is reset and the byte put in receive 12 buffer RAM . If it was not the start of the message, the 13 received character is put in the next receive buffer RA~
14 location and the receive character counter incremented. If lS the character received was the last one indicated by the 16 received character counter~ this character is checked to 17 see if it is a carriage return. If it is not, the 18 characte~s stored for this receive are not valid. It then 19 resets the received character counter and returns from the interrupt.
21 If the last character was a carriage return, the 22 reception is valid. At thiC point, the receiving stations 23 should be all at the same point in the sequence of 24 transmissions. To ensure this synchronization routine is ~5 performed which checks first that the transmission just 26 received was in the interrogate phase (by checking first 27 character in the receive buffer). If ie is not, it must be 2~ in the command phase so no synchronizing i9 done. Otherwise 2~ it reloads the timer TO of ICl so that there is 8 ms left to count (the period normally expected from the end of a 31 transmission until the next timer interrupt i.e. completion 32 of time segment of 60 ms). Also the time counter is set to 33 a8ree with the station number just received, so that each 34 unit is at the same time count and will therefore be in step in the sequential transmissions.
36 Having completed synchronization, the receive buffer is 37 transferred to the area of storage RAM correspondin8 to the 38 station number received, and the RAM pointers incremented.
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1 If the information in the receive buffer relates to an 2 interrogation huwever, the program compares the customer 3 address in the receive buffer with that read from the ports 4 of IC4,and if it is, the remote prime flag is set.
Interrogation for any other customer address is ignored.
6 The receive buffer is now checked to see if the station 7 just received was the last station. If it was its station 8 number is stored in the last station number bufer, 9 otherwise the program continues on.
Finally, the receive buffer is cleared, and the 11 received character counter is cleared, and the routine 12 returns from the interrupt.
13 It should be evident from the above that the 14 transceiver unit according to this invencion îacilitates creation of a unique electronic surveillance and reporting 16 system which has particular utility in locali~ed security 17 systems such as neighbourhood watch systems. Because the 18 system enables the group of users to be instantly alerted to 19 a particular need at a specified location, it provides a novel, cost effective solution to what has been hitherto, a 21 largely unresolved problem. When an alarm condition occurs 22 in a particular householders residence as detected by infa-23 red ultrasonic or microwave or other sensors, the particular 24 transceiver unit at that locati.on is caused to transmit, at an appropriate time in the cycle, information by way of 26 digital data to all the other transceiver units in the 27 system indentifying the location (householder address) of 28 the alarm condition. An audible alarm on all the other 29 transceiver units alerts each of the other householders who are home at the time and they are able to observe ~heir own 31 transceiver unit to determine, via ehe display, the location 32 of the alarm condition and the type of alarm. Whilst some 33 other householders may be absent at the time of an alarm, it 34 is conceivable that in a reasonable group of users, there will be at least several who are present at any one time to 36 take the appropriate action in the case of an alarm.
37 The unique feature whereby an optional keyboard enables 38 any user to send a command to any other transceiver unit in 1272~3 1 the system with an instruction causing that particular 2 transceiver unit to change state as for example, from an 3 idle to a primed state is extremely useful. In other words, 4 should a householder neglect to switch his transceiver unit to a primed condition before leaving, he i9 able to contact, 6 by telephone or otherwise, another us~r of the system and 7 request that his unit be primed by remote control.
8 Clearly, many modifications to the particular 9 embodiment described above, will be readil~ apparent to persons skilled in the art. As mentioned, the means of 11 communication between the units of a system need not be by 12 way of direct connection as in the described embodiment, but 13 could be by way of radio frequency transmission or 14 otherwise. Also, the speed of operation (baud rate of the system) can be adjusted throughout a wide range.
1~ For instance in the radio-linked version the timing 17 intervals are changed relative to the embodiment described 18 hereinabove since digital data cannot be sent very quickly 19 in a small bandwidth over a radio channel. It should also be mentioned that with latest technology the ROM12 may be 21 incorporated within the micro-processor 11.
12 A neighbourhood watch system involves a group of 13 neighbours forming together and takin8 turns of watching 14 the residence of each other member of the group during periods when a residence is vacant. Such a system has been 16 effective in reducing the incidence of household burglaries 17 but is difficult to co-ordinate and often causes 1~ inconvenience in that members have to continually report 19 their movements to the person who is "on-watch7'.
Furthermore, the task of watching other residences is 21 extremely onerous and sometimes involves the person on watch 22 having to move away from the safety of his or her own 23 residence to observe the vacant house of another member. As 24 well as these disadvantages there are a number of others such as the possibility that another alarm condition like a 26 fire, for example, may not be discovered externally of a 27 residence until it has established a firm hold inside and 28 already caused considerable damage.
29 As an alternative or adjunct to a n2ighbourhood watch system there are a number of electronic surveillance systems 31 which are known and available in Australia. Generally such 32 electronic systems include one or more sensors which detect 33 conditlons such as intrusion or fire (smoke or heat) and 34 upon detection sound an alarm. The alarm i9 desired to alert neighbours and/or cause ~he nervous intruder to panic 36 and thu~ leave the premises prematurely and ~ithout takin8 37 any valuables. The electronic systems are of assistance in 38 deterrin8 or distracting ~ould be burglar~ but in a ~2~27'73 1 neighbourhood watch system still require householders to 2 advise others when they vacate their home and also perhaps 3 details of how to deactiYate the electronic surveillance 4 system.
More sophisticated electronic systems are able to 6 communicate with base stations at remote locations and 7 report alarm conditions such as intrusion or fire but whilst 8 some systems have radio controlled security vehicles 9 mobilized at all times to attend premises where an alarm condition is detected there are often inordinate delays in 11 security vehicles reaching premises and this is a major 12 disadvantage of these systems. Furthérmore, the large 13 number of false alarms which occur with sensitive 14 electronic monitoring devices such as infra-red detectors and the like causes a major inefficiency of these "base 1~ station" systems.
17 Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to 18 provide an improved electronic surveillance system which 19 overcomes one or more of the aforementioned pro~lems of existing security systems.
21 Thus, the in~ention provides an electronic surveillance 22 system comprising a plurality of transceiver units at spaced 23 locations within the system, characterized in that each 24 said unit is adapted to tranmsit digital data in turn, simultaneously to the other units of the system at an 26 exclusive time slot in a cycle of operation, said daea 27 identifies the particular unit transmitting data and 28 provides status information, each said unit is further 29 adapted to recognize, at all times, a said transmission from any other unit of the system and also identify a 31 tran3mission from the immediately preceding unit in said 32 cycle, and perform a said transmission next in turn 33 thereafter, the unit last in said cycle is adapted to 34 transmit coded information such that the flrst unit in said cycle can identify the end of a cycle and recommence, and 36 each said unit is adapted to respond to the failure of any 37 one unit of the system to transmit ~aid data in turn, or to 38 status information received.
WO ~7~)711 PC-r/AIlJ'86/002()9 ~n order thct the lnv~ntlon m~y be ~ore r~adlly 2 und~r~l~ood, on~ pnrticulflr embodilDent ~lll now be de~crlbçd 3 with reference to the accompsnyinu drAwing~ wherein:
4 F~G. l l~ ~ si~pllfied circult block diagra~ of a S tran~colYer unle for use ln ~n èl~ctronic gurvelllance 6 9y~tem Qccordlng to the invent$on, and 7 FIG. 2 i~ 8 mote d~t~lled clrcult block dlahran~ of the 8 ~:r~nqc~i ver un~ hown in FIG, 1.
9 The par~icul~r tran~ceiv~r unlt according to this embodi~ent 1~ for uYe in a household securi~y syAtem ~uch a~
ll 8 neigh~ourhood wat~h syste~. Su¢h ~ sy~tem include~ a 12 number of ~lmllar transce~ver unlt~ whlch in ~se are placed 13 ~n sep~rate hou~e~ within a localized are~ and are connected 14 to~ether by wires or ~re adapted to commun~cste with e~ch other by other ~eanq such as r~dlo tran~ittlng ~nd 16 reç~lvlng ~e~ns, flbre-optic llnk or infr~-red b~sm.
17 ~cordlng to thls embodl~ent, the unit~ ar~ ~onnected by 18 t.riated p~ir wire~.
l~ Ea~h tr~nscelver unlt i~ pro~smmet to sequentlal ly 20 report ~ ts ~tatus to each of the other units of the system 21 and ~n option~l keyboard 10 i8 provlded whereby sny unit may 22 ~e used to tr~nsmlt a command ~o any other unit, or ~3 interrogate the sy~tem for ~erviclng purposes, a~ w~ll 24 becv~e ~ppsrent herelnbelow.
~5 ~9 i~ ovl~ent ln FIG.l, e~h unit cor~pri~es a mlcro 26 proce~or 11, progra~ ROM 12, interface ports l~a, I3~, 13c, 27 13d. dlsplay 14, and crystal o~clll~or 15 which are 28 connected together ln the ~ann~r ~hown. In FIG. 1 the 2~ keybo~rd 10 and dl~pl~y 14 are ~ncorporated in ~ 6ingl~ unlt 1~. Ths ~n~rf~c~ port 13a provlde3 an ~nte~fsce for 31 control and 3t~tU9 ~ignflla ~nd ~lerm inputs, interf~cc port 32 l~b pr~Yldes sn interf~ce wlth the k~yboard lO flnd dlspl~
33 14, interf~c0 port 13c ~nabl~ th~ customer address ~o be 34 3et ~nd lnterf~ce port 13d enables the ~t~tion ~ddre~ to be s~t. In ~ddl~lon ~ seri~l ln~erfaee port 17 prov1d~s 36 ~omm~n~c4tlon ~lth other unlts of the sg~t~ a t~o ~re 3~ llne (not ~hovn~ connected ~o the terminala la~ The dlsplar 38 14 compr~ werning lamp~, aud~ble al8-~ Qnd dl~ltAl Z~3 1 readout.
2 In addition to the above the transceiver unit includes 3 timers/counters 19 and crystal oscillator 20 as shown.
4 Reference should now be made to FIG. 2 where the various components are described in more detail. The system 6 transceiver units or stations are identical, each bein8 7 centred around the microprocessor 11 which in this 8 embodiment is an 8031 integrated circuit labelled ICl which 9 incorporates a serial communication port RXD, TXD, interrupt structure, the timers/co~lnters 19, RAM and input/output 11 ports ADO-AD7. The latter two are further expanded by use 12 of an 8155 programmable peripheral interface, IC4. The 13 program controlling the system resides in the ROM 12 which 14 is a 2732 shown as IC3 supported by a 74LS373 address demultiplexing latch IC2.
16 Communication between transceiver units is achieved on 17 a two wire parallel line joining all stations through 18 inte rface 17 which is an RS~422 PROTOCOL
19 transmitter/receiver combination represented by devices IC5 and IC6 to the ICl serial communication ports RXD, T~D. IC5 21 is a 26LS31 and IC6 is a 26LS32. System status display is 22 provided by four 7-segment displays and 4 lamps all of which 23 are driven by an M~5450 device IC5, using data from IC1.
24 Finally, the keyboard 10 which is optional may be used for system checking or remote control of another station's 26 functions. The keyboard is encoded by IC8 which is a 74C922 Z7 with binary outputs read directly by one of ICl's ports. To 28 facilitate the identification of units within the system 29 each is given a number (referred to as the station address which is its internal number and is part of an integral 31 series of continuing numbers) such that the first is ~ero, 32 the next is one and so on up to the basic system capacity of 33 16 units. These station addre~ses are set on dual-in-line 34 switches (not shown) whose state is read b~ the port 27 of the IC4. TQ identify the locations of the stationq for the 36 user, it may be desirable to have some other numbering 37 system (such as house address number) so this is catered for 38 by allowing a 3 diglt blnary coded decimal number to be set ~,~7~7~
1 (the user address) again on dual-ln-11ne switches read by 2 port 2a at IC4. Port 29 i9 a spare. In addition the las~
3 station in the system is lndicated when the number of units 4 is less than 16, by switching the input P3.5 of ICl ~o a low level, by a signal on line 22, on that unit only.
6 Each transcei~er unit or station is in either of 2 7 modes as far as the user is concerned. The first is the 8 IDLE mode where no alarm is detected at that station, but 9 communication from and to, all other stations is carried on continuously, and alarms arising at other stations will be 11 recognized and reported. The second is the primed mode, 12 where an alarm detected at that station will be transmitted 13 to other stations in the systems. Switching from IDLE to 14 primed mode is done via a key switch (not shown) indicating lS its state on line 23 to a port input P3.4 on ICl. An alarm 16 detect input 24 is provided to ICl's interrupt input, INTl.
17 This may accept a logic level change from any of the wide 18 variety of alarm detecting devices which may be available.
19 When a keybcard 10 is pro~ided the program allows input from the keyboard to activate a number of display modes.
21 The 74C922 keyboard encoder IC8 generates an interrupt each 22 time a key is pressed by sending a pulse to the INTo 23 interrupt input of IC1, which will read the o~tput of the 24 encoder IC8 via ICl's input port pins, during the interrupt service routine. The ke~board commands include:
26 1. Display sequentially the station addresses.
27 2. Displa~ sequentially ehe customer addresses.
28 3. Clear.
29 4. Remote prime.
Display modes 1 and 2 are provided for testing, setting up 31 and checking of the system. When an alarm is detected at a 32 primed unit it will report this to all other units when next 33 it transmits. The other units will all indicate the alarm 34 by displaying the customer address of the alarm site showing alarm detected status lamp and alarm warning lamp on the 36 lamps 25 and sounding the beeper 26. The alarm warning lamp 37 and beeper are turned off after 10 minutes approximately.
38 The unit where the alarm has been detected or an~ other ~1 27~3 1 primed unit behaves the same, except that the alarm lamp snd 2 beeper.are not activated, and after the 10 min~te intervaL
3 an external warning lamp/siren (not shown) is activated.
4 Where more than one alarm is detected in the system the displays 14 of each unit will show the location address 6 sequentially on their displays. Furthermore,since the units 7 are repeatedly transmitting their status whether in the ~ primed mode or not, and whether an alarm is detected or not, 9 it is possible to detect any transmission failure since each station expects to see a transmission in sequence from 11 each other station. Such failure(s) are reported on all 12 units by showing the location addresses which have not been 13 received. Since each unit also receives and checks its own 14 transmissions, this can also include its own location address. This feature allows early detection of any fault 16 which may impair the operation of the system. Units still 17 transmitting and receiving will still function normally 18 however.
19 The serial communication port of ICl handles all transmission and reception between units and is interrupt 21 driven by the program. The first phase of the sequence of 22 transmissions is called the report phase.
23 When each unit has reported in sequence~ the second 24 phase begins where remote priming transmissions are made, if required (this is referred to as the "com~and phase"). When 2~ all units have had an opportunity to transmit in their 27 sequence during the report phase, the entire process begins 28 again and the whole sequence of report phase and command 29 phase is termed a "frame". At the completion of each frame a~ approximately one second intervals, the display is 31 updated.
32 If any unit is not on the system is faulty, or its 33 transmission is not valid, the o~her units use their timers 34 to determine when they expect the transmission and carry on 3S regardless. There is nominally 60 ms between the 36 transmission of one station and that of the next.
37 To ensure that all the units stay in step over long 38 periods, at the comp:Letion of each valid 3tatus transmission 2~
1 in each unit, the timers in each are reset to leave 8 ms of 2 the 60.ms time segment to go before the start of the next 3 unit's segment as well as takin8 the station number of the 4 last unit received to update where in the sequence the system has reached.
6 This timer update is not done during the command phase 7 where the timers/counters l9 keep track of how many of the 8 ICl timer interrupts of 60 ms duration have gone by. More 9 often than not there will be no transmission in the command ~0 phase,since it is only there for remote control of another ll station's priming.
12 Turning now to the unit's specific function: At 13 switch-on, the microprocessors external reset circuit 14 ensures that the unit is allowed to settle before the program execution begins.
16 The microprocessor ICl looks at the bottom of ROM, IC3 17 for its first instruction which is a jump to the main body 18 of the program in ROM.
19 It begins by clearing all the RAM which will later be used for storing information from transmissions of units in 21 the system, for internal flags, for counters and temporary 22 buffers.
23 The program executes a time delay of about 60 ms, then 24 goes ahead to initialize the controlling registers of the station hardware.
26 Timer l (not shown) within ICl is dedicated to baud 27 rate generation for the serial communications port and is 28 set in the auto-reload mode with a value to give a baud rate 29 of l200 baud.
Timer O (NOT SHOWN) also within IC1 is set up as a 16 31 bit timer which will generate an interrupt when it 32 overf 1ow9. A counter of ICl is set to an initial value so 33 that it will count for 60 ms before generating the 34 interrupt.
The serial communications port of ICl is initialized as 36 a 8 bit UART, interrupt drive. Interrupts rom the keyboard 37 and alarm input are set as edge triggered, and the serial 38 port and tioer O are given the higher priority interrupt 7~3 1 level.
Interrupts are then enabled and the interface IC4 is 3 initialized as all inputs. The display buffer RAM (part of 4 ICl) is loaded with the idle di~play indication and status lamps all off and the display buffer RAM is clocked out to 6 the IC7 display controller by the program. The line to 7 other units is checked by examining the level at the 8 receiver input pin at 2ms intervals over 10 ms (i.e. 5x~.
9 If the line is in use (low level detected) the program goes back to the start otherwise it continues by starting the 11 timers and clearing 3 regi~ters in RAM used as the frame 12 counter, state counter and time counter.
13 Interrupts are enabled by setting the enable bit in 14 CLl.
(A) A subroutine is called ~hich reads the customer address 16 and station address from IC'4s ports, storing the values in 17 RAM used as a transmit buffer. In addition the status bits 18 as shown in the transmitted data format are set to their 19 appropriate values by checking port pins and internal flags.
Another routine is carried out whlch examines the prime 21 input 23 again and sets the state of a prime lamp bit in the Z2 alarm statu~ display register appropriately. Also the state 23 of the remote prime flag is checked, to prime the alarm if 24 required when not primed locally. If the prime input has gone from an 'On' to 'Off' position in two passes of the 26 routine, then the existing alarm state for this unit is 27 cleared, as well as the relevant bits of the alarm status 28 display register.
29 The value of the frame counter is now checked. If it has equalled 31, then the displa~ routine is to be executed.
31 If less than 31, the current value of the time counter is 32 compared with the state counter. If they are not equal the 33 program goes back to (A) and repeats all the steps until the 34 2 counters are equal to this point.
When state and time counters are equal, a check is made 36 to find out if the ~tate counter is less than or equal to 15 37 or, greater than or equal to 16. If the former it is in the 38 first or "report phase". If in the latter, it is in the 7~3 g 1 second or "command phase". During the report phase, the 2 program. now directs the micro-processor to read the station 3 address from IC4. If the station address equals the state 4 counter, then it is the station's turn in the state sequence to transmlt, so the line is checked in ~he same way as at 6 the start of the program and if OK the transmit subroutine 7 is called which generates an interrupt for the serial port 8 interrupt service routine to be executed, which will 9 transmit the bytes residing in the transmit buffer RAM
sequentially with appropriate start and stop characters.
11 The sub-routine waits for the interrupt routine to send all 12 the message by checking the transmitted character counter in 13 RAM and generatin8 further interrupts until it has reached 14 the count of 6, indicating that 5 characters have been sent.
Now the program loops until the serial communications 16 port receive flag has been set, which will a8ain generate an 17 interrupt for the receive portion of the serial port 18 interrupt service routine to handle.
19 The state counter is then incremented, and the program jumps back to (A) where the process star~s again. If it was 21 not the station's turn to transmit in the sequence, the 22 state counter is incremented and the jump is made back to 23 (A).
24 In the command phase, the program is much the same as described for the report phase, except that a transmission 26 is made in sequence only if it is required to, by a command 27 address having been entered by the keyboard. If this is the 28 case the transmit buffer is loaded with the command code and 29 customer address from the command address buffer before transmitting. Once transmitted, the command address buffer 31 is cleared, and the display buffer is set to the idle 32 display.
33 When the frame has been completed (fr~e counter = 31) 34 the display update is performed. The data recorded from each unit i9 stored sequentially in an area of RAM. At 36 each pass of the display update routine, the pointer for 37 this RAM area is incremented to the next unit RA~. This 38 pointer i9 used to find the next station's reseived data in '73 1 RAM.
2 The display update first checks if the report address 3 buffer has any information, if so, this is moved to the 4 display buffer with the interrogation display code. If this was the case, it then jumps ahead to (B). Otherwise it 6 checks if a request for a station address test is required.
7 If so, the pointer is used to find the next station address 8 in RAM and is put in the display buffer along with the 9 station address display code. If this was the case it then jumps ahead to (B). Otherwise it checks if the keyboard has 11 asked for the station address test to be completed. If so, 12 the display buffer is set to the idle display and the 13 program jumps to (B). Otherwise it checks if the ctlstomer 14 address test has been requested from the keyboard. If so, the next customer address is found in RAM using the pointer, 1~ and loaded into the display buffer with the customer address 17 test code, and then the program jumps to (B). Otherwise it 18 checks if the customer address test has been asked to be 19 completed. I so, the displa~ buffer is set to the idle display and the program jumps to (B). Otherwise the 21 pointer is used to find the status bits of the next station 22 to be displayed. If the status bits shown an invalid 23 transmission, the station's customer address is loaded into 24 the display buffer with the invalid transmission code, and then jumped to (B). If the status bits shown an alarm 26 condition for the station to be displayed, the station's 27 customer address is loaded into the display buffer with the 28 alarm code, then jumped to (B). Otherwise the display 29 buffer is set to idle mode if it contains any invalid station display, and if the RA~ pointer is pointing to this 31 station's own data (checked by comparing ~AM station address 32 with that from IC4 ports) then the alarm display register is 33 updated appropriaeely by checking the microprocessor alarm 34 f~ags, prime flag etc.
(B) The program reads the station address ~rom IC4 and 36 compares it with the address in the display buffer. If the 37 address is that of this unit, then appropriate action of 38 alarm beepers is set in the alarm display register. If an ~L~727~3 1 alarm from another unie is indlcated, the alarm delay 2 re~ister is also set to give the required alarms. The alarm 3 timeout flag is also checked to turn off the beepers after 4 the required interval.
The display is now updated by clocking the display 6 buffer and alarm status display registers out to IC7. The 7 RAM pointer fc- the display data is incremented to the next 8 station's storage area. A check is made to find if the last 9 station display was the last in the system. If it was, the status bits of each station's data in the RAM area are 11 cleared (which means that new data must be received or else 12 invalid transmission will be indicated) and the RAM pointer 13 is reset to the first station's RAM address. Then or, if it 14 was not the last station, the program loops until the time counter reaches the count of 32 indicating the complete 16 frame time is over, and then the time, frame and state 17 counters are cleared and the program jumps back to (A).
19 Interrupts to the unit come from four sources; the keyboard, the alarm input, the serial port and the timer.
21 The timer and the serial port interrupts fall within 22 particular time frames, but the keyboard and alarm input ~3 interrupts will arrive at random. To guard a~ainst loss of 24 any of the programs working registers, the interrupt service programs always begin with ICl working registers 26 (accumulator, data pointer, program status word, etc.) being 27 pushed onto the micro-processor stack. The service routine 28 ends with the same registers being correspondingly popped 29 of f the stack.
The keyboard interrupt service routine begins by 31 readin8 the keyboard data from the relevant port pins of 32 ICl, and translating the data read to an appropriate code~
33 by use of a look-up table. If the code indicates that the 34 customer address test key was pressed, toggle the customer address test function and 8 to (D). Else if the code was 36 the clear key, clear the customer address test function, 37 station address test function, remote prime flag and remote 38 prime address buffer register, then 8 to (D). Else if 7~3 ~ ., ~.
1 the code was the sta~lon address test key, toggle the 2 station address te~t function and 8 to (D). Else if the 3 code was that of the remote prime key, ~et the remote prime 4 address flflg if not already set. Set the send remote prime flag lf the remote prime address flag is set. Clear the 6 remote prime address flag if it was set, ehen go to (D).
7 Else if the remote prime address flag is clear to go to (D).
8 Otherwise take the key code and roll it into the remote 9 prime address buffer memorg, since this is an entry of an address for the command transmission.
11 (D) Return from Interrupt.
12 The alarm input service routine checks if the unit is 13 primed. If not, it simply returns from the interrupt.
14 Otherwise, the alarm detected flag is set, the alarm timer counter is reset, and the alarm time-out fla8 is cleared, 16 and then it returns from the interrupt.
17 The timer interrupt occurs at regular 60 ms intervals 18 since once the interrupt occurs, the timer counter is reset 19 to its starting value, which is selected to give a 60 ms period to overflow. The routine then increments the frame 21 and time counters.
22 Also, if the alarm detected flag has been set, the 23 alarm timer counter is increment~d and checked to see if it 24 has reached its final value. If it has, the alarm time-out flag is set. Otherwi~e the program returns from the 26 interrupt.
27 Finally, the serial port interrupt routine is in two 28 parts. If the interrupt comes from the transmit side 29 (controlled by the transmlt routine of the main program) the program checks if the transmitted byte counter is 6, if 31 it is the transmitter enable to IC5 is turned off, and the 32 program jumps to the receive section. If not, the 33 transmitter enable to IC5 is turned on and the transmitted 34 byte counter checks to see if lt is at the end of the message. If not the counter is used to take the character 36 corresponding to it~ count from the transmi~ter holding 37 buffer and load it into the transmitter. If it is at the 38 end of the mes~age the carriage return character is loaded 1 into the transmitter. After any of these events the 2 transmitted byte counter is incremented and the program 3 carries on to the receive rout:Lne.
4 The receive routine begins by checking the receive interrupt flag. If not set it returns from the interrupt, 6 otherwise carries on. The interrupt fla~ is cleared, and 7 the received byte unloaded from the receiver and checked to 8 see it if is the start of a new message by inspecting the 9 byte for correspondence to the start of message bits e~pected. If it is the start of the message, the received ll character counter is reset and the byte put in receive 12 buffer RAM . If it was not the start of the message, the 13 received character is put in the next receive buffer RA~
14 location and the receive character counter incremented. If lS the character received was the last one indicated by the 16 received character counter~ this character is checked to 17 see if it is a carriage return. If it is not, the 18 characte~s stored for this receive are not valid. It then 19 resets the received character counter and returns from the interrupt.
21 If the last character was a carriage return, the 22 reception is valid. At thiC point, the receiving stations 23 should be all at the same point in the sequence of 24 transmissions. To ensure this synchronization routine is ~5 performed which checks first that the transmission just 26 received was in the interrogate phase (by checking first 27 character in the receive buffer). If ie is not, it must be 2~ in the command phase so no synchronizing i9 done. Otherwise 2~ it reloads the timer TO of ICl so that there is 8 ms left to count (the period normally expected from the end of a 31 transmission until the next timer interrupt i.e. completion 32 of time segment of 60 ms). Also the time counter is set to 33 a8ree with the station number just received, so that each 34 unit is at the same time count and will therefore be in step in the sequential transmissions.
36 Having completed synchronization, the receive buffer is 37 transferred to the area of storage RAM correspondin8 to the 38 station number received, and the RAM pointers incremented.
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1 If the information in the receive buffer relates to an 2 interrogation huwever, the program compares the customer 3 address in the receive buffer with that read from the ports 4 of IC4,and if it is, the remote prime flag is set.
Interrogation for any other customer address is ignored.
6 The receive buffer is now checked to see if the station 7 just received was the last station. If it was its station 8 number is stored in the last station number bufer, 9 otherwise the program continues on.
Finally, the receive buffer is cleared, and the 11 received character counter is cleared, and the routine 12 returns from the interrupt.
13 It should be evident from the above that the 14 transceiver unit according to this invencion îacilitates creation of a unique electronic surveillance and reporting 16 system which has particular utility in locali~ed security 17 systems such as neighbourhood watch systems. Because the 18 system enables the group of users to be instantly alerted to 19 a particular need at a specified location, it provides a novel, cost effective solution to what has been hitherto, a 21 largely unresolved problem. When an alarm condition occurs 22 in a particular householders residence as detected by infa-23 red ultrasonic or microwave or other sensors, the particular 24 transceiver unit at that locati.on is caused to transmit, at an appropriate time in the cycle, information by way of 26 digital data to all the other transceiver units in the 27 system indentifying the location (householder address) of 28 the alarm condition. An audible alarm on all the other 29 transceiver units alerts each of the other householders who are home at the time and they are able to observe ~heir own 31 transceiver unit to determine, via ehe display, the location 32 of the alarm condition and the type of alarm. Whilst some 33 other householders may be absent at the time of an alarm, it 34 is conceivable that in a reasonable group of users, there will be at least several who are present at any one time to 36 take the appropriate action in the case of an alarm.
37 The unique feature whereby an optional keyboard enables 38 any user to send a command to any other transceiver unit in 1272~3 1 the system with an instruction causing that particular 2 transceiver unit to change state as for example, from an 3 idle to a primed state is extremely useful. In other words, 4 should a householder neglect to switch his transceiver unit to a primed condition before leaving, he i9 able to contact, 6 by telephone or otherwise, another us~r of the system and 7 request that his unit be primed by remote control.
8 Clearly, many modifications to the particular 9 embodiment described above, will be readil~ apparent to persons skilled in the art. As mentioned, the means of 11 communication between the units of a system need not be by 12 way of direct connection as in the described embodiment, but 13 could be by way of radio frequency transmission or 14 otherwise. Also, the speed of operation (baud rate of the system) can be adjusted throughout a wide range.
1~ For instance in the radio-linked version the timing 17 intervals are changed relative to the embodiment described 18 hereinabove since digital data cannot be sent very quickly 19 in a small bandwidth over a radio channel. It should also be mentioned that with latest technology the ROM12 may be 21 incorporated within the micro-processor 11.
Claims (13)
1. An electronic surveillance system comprising a plurality of transceiver units at spaced locations within the system, characterized in that each of said transceiver units comprises means for establishing a cycle of operation, for transmitting digital data in turn, to all other units of the system at an exclusive time slot in said cycle of operation, said data identifying the particular unit transmitting data and providing status information, means for recognizing, at all times, a said transmission from any other unit of the system and also identifying a transmission from the immediately preceding unit in said cycle, and performing a said transmission next in turn thereafter, the unit last in said cycle including means for transmitting coded information such that the first unit in said cycle can identify the end of a cycle and recommence, and each said unit comprises means for responding to the failure of any one unit of the system to transmit said data in turn, and for responding to receipt of said status information.
2. An electronic surveillance system as defined in claim 1, characterized in that, said units include a visual display and respond to said failure of any one unit to transmit said data in turn by displaying information identifying said one unit and a fault code, and to respond to receipt of said status information, by displaying information identifying said one unit and the status thereof.
3. An electronic surveillance system as defined in claim 2, characterized in that, said status includes any one of a number of alarm conditions being monitored by sensors connected to a said unit.
4. An electronic surveillance system as defined in claim 3, characterized in that, said sensors monitor intrusion by a person into premises or fire.
5. An electronic surveillance system as defined in claim 3, characterized in that, said sensors monitor machine functions and detect a change in a machine condition.
6. An electronic surveillance system as defined in claim 3, characterized in that, each said unit is adapted to recognize the failure of said immediately preceding unit to transmit in turn and to proceed with its own said transmission upon said recognition.
7. An electronic surveillance system as defined in claim 6, characterized in that, after completion of each interval comprising a valid status transmission from each unit, a real time clock in each unit is reset to ensure that all units remain in synchronism over a long period of time.
8. An electronic surveillance system as defined in claim 7, characterized in that, said real time clock in each unit is reset after each transmission from said unit to ensure synchronism throughout the system after each transmission.
9. An electronic surveillance system as defined in claim 6, characterized in that each said cycle of operation comprises on the part of said transceiver units, one or the other of alternate phases of operation, one said phase being a report phase wherein each unit transmits said data identifying the particular unit transmitting and said status information, and the other said phase being a command phase during which each unit counts timing intervals for all the units preceding it in the cycle, said command phase facilitating transmission of an instruction from any unit of the system to any other unit of the system.
10. An electronic surveillance system as defined in claim 9, characterized in that, said units are adapted to switch between an idle state wherein a unit is active and communicates with the other units of the system but does not recognize a said alarm condition, and a primed state wherein an alarm condition may be detected at a unit and status information advising of the alarm condition transmitted to the other units of the system.
11. A transceiver unit for an electronic surveillance system, characterized in that, the unit comprises means for frequently and periodically transmitting digital data identifying its address number, means for operating said unit in a primed condition in which said unit is actively connected to one or more alarm condition sensors, and transmits the status of each of said one or more alarm condition sensors and means for switching said unit from said primed condition to an idle condition wherein it is able to transmit digital data relevant to its address-number and status but does not recognize an input from an alarm condition sensor, said transceiver unit also comprising means for receiving digital data sequentially from other similar transceiver units and displaying the address and status of any said units which do not transmit or which are in an alarm condition, said unit being programmable to "listen" continuously through two consecutive phases, a first said phase termed a report phase during which said unit performs, upon initiation, said transmission of digital data relevant to its address-number and status and a second phase termed a command phase during which said unit is adapted to count a predetermined number of timing intervals and is able to receive an instruction by way of digital data to cause said unit to perform some action.
12. A transceiver unit as defined in claim 11, characterized in that, said action includes an action to switch said unit from a said idle condition to a said primed condition.
13. A transceiver unit as defined in claim 12, comprising means for setting a baud rate for transmitting and receiving information, means for sequencing digital functions of said transceiver, and means for providing a real time clock for action and response delays, said means comprising a microprocessor to which are connected a program ROM, an interface, a display, digital logic circuitry and a crystal oscillator.
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