Smart Panel
No. 15/209,735, filed Jul. 13, 2016, titled “Magnetic Mount Assembly of a Camera,” which is hereby
incorporated by its entirety. Referring to FIG. 7B, in some implementations, a rear exterior surface of the device housing 702 provides an access to at least one of a plurality of wire terminals 720 and an electrical
connector 722 e. g.
home alarm systems
, a light ring formed on a periphery of a front cover plate, a button or a camera lens opening of a doorbell camera. In some implementations, the user interface 410 also includes one or more input devices 414, including user interface components that facilitate user input such as a keyboard, a mouse, a voice command input unit or microphone, a touch screen display, a touch sensitive input pad, a gesture capturing camera, a doorbell button or other input buttons or controls. Furthermore, some smart devices 204 use a microphone and voice recognition or a camera and gesture recognition to supplement or replace the keyboard. In some implementations, the smart device 204 includes one or more image/video capture devices 418 e. g. , cameras, video cameras, scanners, photo sensor units. The radios 440 enable one or more radio communication
networks in the smart home environments, and allow a smart device 204 to communicate with other devices. In some implementations, the radios 440 are capable of data communications
using any of a variety of custom or standard wireless protocols e. g. , IEEE 802. 15.
fall detection system
Furthermore, there’s also a heat sensor so you’ll get notified when the home gets either too cold or too hot, a humidity sensor so it makes it unlikely that the alarm will be triggered when there’s lots of steam, an ambient light sensor so the detector knows when the lights are shut off and it can activate the Pathlight feature or the Nightly Promise – the LED will be green if everything is fine, otherwise, it will become yellow and an occupancy sensor it is used with the Pathlight feature, so it will detect movement and will shine a light on your path during the night – so you don’t stumble on the furniture. With the new released
WiFi systems and home automation hubs, I noticed an increased interest towards simplicity and minimalism in both design and functionality, which meant a simple design and a single LED which showed the status of the system with different colours. Of course, for me it did not make much sense since there is no
intuitive way to understand all those flashing or solid colours, so I said that a voice feedback would make much more sense. It seems that Nest Protect actually implemented such a system and, using an omnidirectional microphone, it will speak to you in words besides also using the appropriate colours: there are two types of alerts, the Heads up it’s a calmly spoken warning + yellow LED, when smoke or CO levels are rising but have not yet reached dangerous levels and the Emergency Alerts when smoke or CO are at dangerous levels, the Nest Protect notifies you where is the problem, it turns the LED red and triggers the loud sound alarm – 85dB. Head Up and Emergency alerts can be silenced by pressing the circular button. Note: This device is not intended for people with hearing problems it lacks a flashing strobe of light and the 85db alarm may not be enough in such cases.