Abstract: A system may include a lock assembly having a shell and a plug rotatable with respect to the shell and a lock operating object for operating the lock assembly including a key. The system may further include an audit enhancement assembly configured to facilitate creation of an audit trail of operation of the lock assembly by the lock operating object, and may include a motion sensor configured to sense rotational motion of the lock operating object and/or the plug of the lock assembly. The audit enhancement assembly may include processing circuitry in communication with the motion sensor, and memory circuitry in communication with the processing circuitry to receive and record a value derived from a motion signal from the motion sensor and a temporal value associated with a motion signal event.

Abstract: A security assembly may have at least two components including a first component and a second component. The first and second components may be engageable together, and may have an engaged condition and a disengaged condition. The engaged condition may be characterized by the first and second components being abutted against each other, and the disengaged condition may be characterized by the first and second components being spaced from each other. The security assembly may be configured to utilize a physical manipulation aspect and a magnetic interaction aspect between the first and second components.

Abstract: A deadbolt lock status sensing assembly for monitoring status of a deadbolt member of a deadbolt assembly on a door may include a sensible element mountable on one of the door and the deadbolt assembly, and a sensing element mountable on one of the door and the deadbolt assembly. The sensing element and the sensing element may be configured to move with respect to each other when the deadbolt member of the deadbolt assembly moves between an extended condition and a retracted condition of the deadbolt.

Abstract: A system may include a first security component configured to emanate a signal with an authorizing code, and may have a magnetic field generating device configured to generate a signaling magnetic field including the signal with the authorizing code. The system may also include a second security component configured to wirelessly receive the signal with the authoring code when the second security component is proximate to the signaling magnetic field of the first security component. The second security component may include a magnetic field sensor configured to sense the signal emanating from the magnetic field generating device, and the sensor may be changed between first and second states by a change in the signaling magnetic field.

Abstract: A system may include a lock assembly having secured and unsecured conditions and having an opening for receiving a lock actuating object. An access restriction element may be positionable with respect to the lock assembly to affect access to the opening of the lock assembly. The access restriction element may have at least two conditions, a blocking condition in which the access restriction element at least partially obstructs access to the opening of the lock assembly and an access condition in which the access restriction element is configured to permit access to the opening of the lock assembly. The system may also include an access detection assembly configured to detect attempted access to the opening of the lock assembly by sensing changing of the access restriction element from the blocking condition to the access condition.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for secure data extraction through a private network. A data extraction application may operate behind a firewall on a client system. Application state information may be automatically gathered and sent by the data extraction application upon the data extraction application being awakened at a predetermined time. A remote system outside of a firewall may determine commands to return to the data extraction application that include one or more query parameters, and then send the commands to the data extraction application. The remote system may then obtain, from the client system behind the firewall or from a data store outside of the firewall, results of the data extraction application executing a query with the provided query parameters injected therein, where the query was executed by the data extraction application with respect to one or more files located behind the firewall.

Abstract: A deadbolt lock status sensing assembly for monitoring status of a deadbolt member of a deadbolt assembly on a door may include a sensible element mountable on one of the door and the deadbolt assembly, and a sensing element mountable on one of the door and the deadbolt assembly. The sensing element and the sensing element may be configured to move with respect to each other when the deadbolt member of the deadbolt assembly moves between an extended condition and a retracted condition of the deadbolt.

Abstract: A deadbolt lock status sensing assembly for monitoring status of a deadbolt member of a deadbolt assembly on a door may include a sensible element mountable on one of the door and the deadbolt assembly, and a sensing element mountable on one of the door and the deadbolt assembly. The sensing element and the sensing element may be configured to move with respect to each other when the deadbolt member of the deadbolt assembly moves between an extended condition and a retracted condition of the deadbolt.

Abstract: A system for notifying occupants of a structure that a pet is proximate to an opening of a structure. The system may include a pet unit wearable on the pet's body and including a transmitter configured to transmit a wireless proximity signal from the pet unit. The system may further include an exit unit positionable at an exit of the structure. The exit unit may include a receiver configured to receive a said wireless proximity signal transmitted by a pet unit, with the receiver being configured to produce an alert signal when a said wireless proximity signal is received. The exit unit may also include an alerting assembly configured to provide a presence alert when the receiver receives a said wireless proximity signal. The alerting assembly may comprise a perceptible alerting mechanism configured to produce a perceptible presence alert which is perceptible to a sense of a human.

Abstract: A security system with multifactor authentication, and may comprise a lock assembly configured to secure an object and having a secured condition and an unsecured condition, a lock actuating element for actuating the lock assembly between the secured and unsecured conditions, a first authentication structure configured to permit actuation of the lock assembly by the lock actuating element when authenticated by the first authenticating structure, and a second authentication structure configured to permit actuation of the lock assembly by the lock actuating element when authenticated by the second authentication structure, so that authentication by the first authentication structure and the second authentication structure is required to actuate the lock assembly.

Abstract: A system for notifying occupants of a structure that a pet is proximate to an opening of a structure. The system may include a pet unit wearable on the pet's body and including a transmitter configured to transmit a wireless proximity signal from the pet unit. The system may further include an exit unit positionable at an exit of the structure. The exit unit may include a receiver configured to receive a said wireless proximity signal transmitted by a pet unit, with the receiver being configured to produce an alert signal when a said wireless proximity signal is received. The exit unit may also include an alerting assembly configured to provide a presence alert when the receiver receives a said wireless proximity signal. The alerting assembly may comprise a perceptible alerting mechanism configured to produce a perceptible presence alert which is perceptible to a sense of a human.

Abstract: A system may include a first security component configured to emanate a signal with an authorizing code, and may have a magnetic field generating device configured to generate a signaling magnetic field including the signal with the authoring code. The system may also include a second security component configured to wirelessly receive the signal with the authorizing code when the second security component is proximate to the signaling magnetic field of the first security component. The second security component may include a magnetic field sensor configured to sense the signal emanating from the magnetic field generating device, and the sensor may be changed between first and second states by a change in the signaling magnetic field.

Abstract: A system for monitoring of a vehicle with an inflation signaling apparatus having at least one inflation reporting assembly. The inflation reporting assembly may be configured to wirelessly transmit an information signal including an identification (ID) code. The system may also include at least one vehicle monitoring apparatus configured to monitor a characteristic of the vehicle based upon the inflation signaling apparatus associated with the vehicle. The vehicle monitoring apparatus may be configured to sense a presence of the inflation reporting assembly proximate to the vehicle monitoring apparatus via reception by the monitoring apparatus of a transmission of the ID code by the inflation signaling apparatus associated with the vehicle.

Abstract: A system for securing a device having a case and a security feature integrated into the device. The system has a device security apparatus removably mountable on the device by the security feature on the case of the device. The device security apparatus may include a base element configured to mount on the device by releasably engaging the security feature of the device, and may further include a securing element removably mounted on the base element. The securing element may include at least one of a plurality of modules configured to interchangeably mount on the base element. The plurality of modules may include a mechanical connection module configured to physically connect the device security apparatus to an object, and a monitoring module configured to monitor movement of the device security apparatus and any device connected to the device security apparatus.

Abstract: A system for notifying occupants of a structure that a pet is proximate to an opening of a structure. The system may include a pet unit wearable on the pet's body and including a transmitter configured to transmit a wireless proximity signal from the pet unit. The system may further include an exit unit positionable at an exit of the structure. The exit unit may include a receiver configured to receive a said wireless proximity signal transmitted by a pet unit, with the receiver being configured to produce an alert signal when a said wireless proximity signal is received. The exit unit my also include an alerting assembly configured to provide a presence alert when the receiver receives a said wireless proximity signal. T alerting assembly may comprise a perceptible alerting mechanism configured to produce a perceptible presence alert which is perceptible to a sense of a human.

Abstract: A system may comprise an alarm apparatus for a premises and a security container apparatus including a housing defining an interior for receiving objects and a securing door movable between open and closed conditions. The container apparatus may also include control elements configured to control operation of the security container apparatus, and the control elements may control operation of aspects of the alarm apparatus. The container apparatus may also include sensing elements configured to sense characteristics of the security container apparatus, and the sensing elements may be in communication with at least one element of the control elements.

Abstract: A system may include a container security apparatus for monitoring and communicating status information regarding a protected space in an interior of a container. The security apparatus may include a casing, a sensor assembly associated with the casing including at least one sensor configured to sense at least one condition in the interior of the container, a controller configured to receive sensor information from the sensor assembly and record the sensor information, and a communication assembly configured to communicate information from the controller including the sensor information.

Abstract: A system for securing a device having a case and a security feature integrated into the device. The system has a device security apparatus removably mountable on the device by agency of the security feature on the case of the device. The device security apparatus may include a base element configured to mount on the device by releasably engaging the security feature of the device, and may further include a securing element removably mounted on the base element. The securing element may include at least one of a plurality of modules configured to interchangeably mount on the base element. The plurality of modules may include a mechanical connection module configured to physically connect the device security apparatus to an object, and a monitoring module configured to monitor movement of the device security apparatus and any device connected to the device security apparatus.

Abstract: A lock system may comprise a lock operating key for operating a lock, with the key including a bow and a blade extending from the bow along a longitudinal axis of the blade. The blade may include a blade wall with an arcuate main wall portion and a pair of side wall portions extending radially inward from opposite sides of the main wall portion. Bitting may be formed on the blade and be positioned on at least one of the side wall portions of the blade wall. The lock system may also include a lock plug defining a keyway having a transverse keyway profile configured to receive the blade of the key, with at least a portion of the keyway having an arcuate shape to receive the arcuate main wall portion of the blade wall of the key.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for secure data extraction through a private network. A data extraction application may operate behind a firewall on a client system. Application state information may be automatically gathered and sent by the data extraction application upon the data extraction application being awakened at a predetermined time. A remote system outside of a firewall may determine commands to return to the data extraction application that include one or more query parameters, and then send the commands to the data extraction application. The remote system may then obtain, from the client system behind the firewall or from a data store outside of the firewall, results of the data extraction application executing a query with the provided query parameters injected therein, where the query was executed by the data extraction application with respect to one or more files located behind the firewall.