Mayday Bracelet With Automated 911, GPS, And Siren Alerts

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing challenge of opioid overdose deaths, particularly from fentanyl, is that unconscious victims often go unnoticed, and Narcan administration is delayed due to lack of awareness, leading to fatal outcomes.

Innovation Solution

The Mayday Bracelet, which includes heartbeat sensors and a microprocessor chip, detects a life-threatening low heart rate, automatically dispatches a pre-recorded mayday message to 911, activates a GPS beacon with a siren, and allows users to manually call for help, ensuring rapid response and location identification.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If Narcan is administered to reverse opioid overdose, then the victim can be revived, but most victims die because no one is present to administer Narcan in time

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesuccess rate of Narcan administrationVSAvoidtime delay in administering Narcan

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The bracelet enables the unconscious victim to automatically call for help through the automated mayday message system, eliminating the need for a responder to initiate the call. The device detects low heart rate and autonomously dispatches emergency alerts with GPS location, allowing the victim to save themselves without external assistance for the critical initial response.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The bracelet continuously monitors heart rate before overdose becomes critical, and automatically triggers emergency alerts when life-threatening conditions are detected. The pre-recorded mayday message is prepared in advance and automatically dispatched when needed, eliminating delays in seeking help.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If the bracelet continuously monitors heart rate to detect overdose, then early detection is possible, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedetection accuracy of overdoseVSAvoidcomplexity of monitoring and alerting system

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The bracelet integrates multiple functions into a single device: heart rate monitoring, temperature sensing, automated mayday message dispatch, GPS beacon activation, and high decibel siren. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate devices and simplifies the overall system while improving reliability through coordinated operation of multiple sensors and alert mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Speed

If the bracelet automatically dispatches mayday messages and activates GPS beacons, then rapid emergency response is achieved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresponse time of emergency servicesVSAvoidcomplexity of automated alerting system

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the mayday message dispatch, GPS beacon activation, and siren alert into a single integrated automated response system. When low heart rate is detected, all three alert mechanisms are triggered simultaneously through one control logic, reducing complexity compared to separate systems while achieving rapid multi-channel emergency notification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

4Reliability

If the bracelet includes automated mayday message and GPS beacon, then unconscious victims can be located and helped, but the device requires more power and resources

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to locate and alert for unconscious victimsVSAvoidpower consumption of sensors and alerting devices

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The heart rate monitoring operates continuously at low power, while the high-energy components (GPS beacon, siren, mayday message dispatch) are activated only periodically when life-threatening conditions are detected. This intermittent activation of power-intensive features significantly reduces overall energy consumption while maintaining the ability to locate and alert for unconscious victims when needed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The Mayday Bracelet provides timely alerting of loved ones and emergency services, increasing the chances of administering Narcan and locating unconscious overdosed individuals, thereby saving lives.

Implementation Method 1

heartbeat sensors will contact a radial artery

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectPulse detection:

Data Source

PatentUS20250288258A1Auto-Dial 911 Mayday Bracelet

Publication Date: 2025.09.18 ROBERTS KEITH ALAN

AI summary

Wherein a life-threatening low heart rate is detected, the Mayday Bracelet becomes a life saving method for an unconscious overdosed person whose life is rapidly slipping away, to save their own life, to automatically dispatch a pre-recorded mayday message to a 911 operator, revealing personal information, location, GPS coordinates and requesting sending paramedics, a piercing alarm beeps. Wherein the device is an automated, electronic, low heart rate detecting alarm. A reversible bracelet wearable on either the left or right wrist, contacting the radial arteries, a temperature sensor helps to prevent a false alarm, a real time GPS coordinates locator, longitude and latitude will illuminate on a display screen, wherein an audio recorder a user will pre-record a 911 mayday message, to automatically be dispatched to 911 operator, wherein a life-threatening low heart rate alarm is activated, simultaneously remotely activating a detached GPS beacon with a siren.