CONNECTION GATEWAY FOR COMMUNICATING MONITORING AND CONTROL INFORMATION BETWEEN A REMOTELY LOCATED MOBILE DEVICE AND PREMISES DEVICES/APPLIANCES ON A PREMISES NETWORK

摘要

A home security and control system for monitoring and controlling an external environment such as a home environment comprising: an Internet browser connectable to an extranet; an extranet located external to the home environment and accessible via the Internet browser; a communications server located in the extranet and adapted to interconnect on demand with one of a series of connection gateways located in predetermined home environments; and a connection gateway located in the home environment adapted to control and/or monitor the operation of at least one security device in the home environment; wherein upon accessing a predetermined address by the Internet browser on the extranet, the communications server connects to a predetermined one of the connection gateways to control and/or monitor the operation of the security device. The extranet can ideally be implemented as a Virtual Private Network (VPN) across an Internet substrate.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
(a) at least one connection gateway located in a user premises network; (b) at least one server located in a network external to the user premises network and configured to establish communication sessions involving the at least one connection gateway and one or more access devices running a user interface application; and (c) at least one premises device or appliance located in the user premises network and communicatively coupled to the at least one connection gateway and not communicatively coupled to the server, wherein the at least one premises device or appliance is configured to output premises monitoring information and receive premises control information;wherein:
(i) one or more of the communications sessions involve the transfer of one of the premises monitoring information and the premises control information; (ii) the at least one server is configured to determine which connection gateway to establish one of the communication sessions with based on authentication details received from the access device, wherein the authentication details are used by the at least one server to retrieve premises connection data; and (iii) the user interface application is configured to receive and display the premises monitoring information or output premises control information.