HALL MONITOR SYSTEM

摘要

A hall monitor system includes a telephone system, a video surveillance system, and an access control system that work together to provide a fully-integrated system that can respond to a number of different emergency events. Interfaces between these systems are defined, emergency events are defined, and each of these systems is programmed with customized functions that support the defined emergency events. The customized functions that support the defined emergency events can include initiating one or more of the emergency events from any of the telephone system, video surveillance system, and access control system, making mass notification of an emergency event by the telephone system, displaying at least one image from at least one camera corresponding to an initiated emergency event from the video surveillance system, and locking or unlocking some or all of the doors by the access control system depending on the emergency event.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
a telephone system that provides a plurality of telephony functions and provides a first plurality of customized functions supported by the telephone system for a plurality of emergency events; a video surveillance system coupled to the telephone system that provides at least one camera interface coupled to at least one camera, that provides a plurality of video surveillance functions, and that provides a second plurality of customized functions supported by the video surveillance system for the plurality of emergency events; and an access control system coupled to the telephone system and coupled to the video surveillance system that provides at least one door lock interface to a plurality of door locks, that provides a plurality of access control functions, and that provides a third plurality of customized functions supported by the access control system for the plurality of emergency events.