US 12,170,017 B2
Method to test smoke alarm sounders
Pirammanayagam Nallaperumal, Telangana (IN); and Ashis Kumar Sinha, Telangana (IN)
Assigned to CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Filed by Carrier Corporation, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/953,765.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/249,124, filed on Sep. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0102752 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G08B 17/00 (2006.01); G08B 29/14 (2006.01)
CPC G08B 29/145 (2013.01) 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of testing a smoke alarm system, the method comprising:
receiving a first manual input via an input device of a mobile device from a user of the mobile device, the first manual input indicating that the user would like to initiate a test of the smoke alarm system comprising one or more smoke alarms, the one or more smoke alarms comprising at least a first smoke alarm;
determining, by a computer application, a time slot allocation, the time slot allocation indicating when each of the one or more smoke alarms should emit an alarm;
transmitting, by a gateway device, the time slot allocation to each of the one or more smoke alarms, wherein each of the one or more smoke alarms is configured to activate the alarm in accordance with the time slot allocation;
activating a first alarm on the first smoke alarm in accordance with a first time slot included in the time slot allocation transmitted to each of the one or more smoke alarms; and
receiving a second manual input via the input device of the mobile device from the user of the mobile device, the second manual input indicating that the user has heard the first alarm;
wherein the one or more smoke alarms further comprises a second smoke alarm, and
wherein the time slot allocation indicates that the first smoke alarm should emit the first alarm at the first time slot and the second smoke alarm should emit a second alarm at a second time slot, the second time slot occurring after the first time slot.