Home security system with camera and monitor
Sistema de seguridad doméstico con cámara y monitor
- Date
- 1966-1969 · confidence high
- Place
- Queens, New York, United States
- Credited to
- Marie Van Brittan Brown and Albert Brown
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A system with four peepholes, a sliding camera, a television monitor, a microphone and an alarm button to alert the police. It was devised by Marie Van Brittan Brown, a nurse from Queens who feared for her safety.
Patented in 1969 (filed in 1966); it is not known whether it was ever commercialised, but the patent is the first to cite remote domestic video surveillance.
What it led to
- domestic video surveillance and closed-circuit television
- video entry phones and alarms linked to the police
- smart home security cameras