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Method and system for situational awareness for emergency response

a situational awareness and emergency response technology, applied in the field of situational awareness for emergency response, can solve the problems of poor equippedness to augment the ability of emergency response using currently available technologies

Active Publication Date: 2017-05-04
RAPIDSOS
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Benefits of technology

The patent describes a system that allows a wearable device to communicate with a communication device to create an emergency alert application. The wearable device can sense and measure health indicators, such as pulse rate, heart rate, and temperature, and can also track the user's movement patterns. The system can use Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to communicate with the communication device and can also communicate with a server or routing device to help with the emergency response. The system can also send multimedia messages with different data types, such as text, sound, image, video, and meta-data. Overall, the system allows for real-time monitoring and analysis of a user's health and movement patterns during an emergency response.

Problems solved by technology

With the advent of mobile communication devices (e.g., mobile phones or wearable devices), emergency dispatch centers are receiving a large number of calls from such devices but are poorly equipped to augment their ability to respond to emergencies using currently available technologies.

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Device Requesting an Emergency Response

[0157]Jane Bond, a heart patient, is alone in her home. Jane is wearing a wearable device on her wrist with a pulse sensor, which measures her pulse-rate periodically. The wearable device is installed with an application, which will measure her pulse-rate more frequently when it begins to fall outside a threshold range. The device also has a second sensor, an accelerometer, for detecting motion. Based on her doctor's recommendations, Jane has inputted the threshold range for her pulse and other health indicators into the wearable device. When the pulse is in the normal range, the wearable device will instruct the pulse sensor to measure the pulse-rate less frequently. In addition, Jane's doctor has advised her to strap a heart-rate sensor (an external sensor for the wearable device) to her chest to monitor her heart-rate when she is not feeling well. When worn together, the heart-rate sensor periodically sends her heart-rate values to the appli...

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rk Situational Awareness for Emergency Response

[0158]Bob has a network of IoT devices installed in his house, including smoke detectors. He also has a communication device (mobile phone) and a Wi-Fi routing device in the house. The IoT devices are assigned with unique ID numbers and registered in a device location database (DLDB). When a fire breaks out in a basement, the smoke detector in the basement raises an alarm and broadcasts an emergency alert including a request for emergency assistance to the EMS. The EMS looks up the sensor ID in the database and discovers the physical address of the house where the sensor is located. The EMS sends the emergency alert with the address information to the appropriate EDC in a compatible format. To gain further situational information, the EMS looks up other IoT devices in the house and sends data requests for sensed information to those devices. As the EMS receives updated sensor data from the other IoT devices in Bob's house, it is able to...

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Abstract

Disclosed are systems and methods for sending emergency alerts. In some embodiments, sensors and wearable devices may trigger and send the emergency alerts and / or warning signals via available communication devices. Multi-media emergency alerts are also disclosed that include situational awareness information for effective and efficient emergency response.

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CROSS-REFERENCE[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62 / 249,551, filed Nov. 2, 2015, U.S. Provisional Application No. 62 / 274,571, filed Jan. 4, 2016, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 62 / 311,719, filed Mar. 22, 2016, each of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]People in emergencies may request help by calling a designated emergency number, for example, a three-digit number like 911 or a direct local access telephone number (i.e., a telephone number tied to a specific emergency dispatch center). With the advent of mobile communication devices (e.g., mobile phones or wearable devices), emergency dispatch centers are receiving a large number of calls from such devices but are poorly equipped to augment their ability to respond to emergencies using currently available technologies.SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION[0003]Present day wearable devices (e.g., the Apple Watch®) include capabilities to sense and me...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G08B25/01H04M3/51H04W4/22H04M1/72418H04W4/90
CPCG08B25/016H04M3/5116H04W4/22H04M2242/15G08B25/009H04W4/90G08B25/006G08B26/00G08B26/007H04M1/72418H04L67/12H04M2242/04
Inventor MEHTA, ANILMARTIN, MICHAEL JOHNHORELIK, NICHOLAS EDWARD
Owner RAPIDSOS
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