Health application for residential electrical switch sensor device platform

• US 10,553,096 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2018
• Issued: 02/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nuro Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nuro Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Ashar, Premal, Ashar, Vaibhavi, Scolaro, George, Nasarabadi, Larry
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Qing Yuan
• Application Number:
  US15/924,123
• Publication Number:
  US 20180210437A1
• Time in Patent Office: 690 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/54 using one central controller connected to several sub-controllers
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2120/10 Occupancy
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2120/14 Activity of occupants
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/163 Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart, intelligent house
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25011 Domotique, I-O bus, home automation, building automation
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25168 Domotique, access through internet protocols
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2642 Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/00 Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/04 responsive to non-activity, e.g. of elderly persons G08B21/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0415 detecting absence of activity per se
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0423 detecting deviation from an expected pattern of behaviour or schedule
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/043 detecting an emergency event, e.g. a fall
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2807 Exchanging configuration information on appliance services in a home automation network arrangements for maintenance or administration involving network analysis for automatically determining the actual topology of a network H04L41/12; hardware or software tools for network management using graphical user interfaces H04L41/22; address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2816 Controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station; in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/30 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for improving the carbon footprint of the management of residential or tertiary loads, i.e. smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the buildings sector, including also the last stages of power distribution and the control, monitoring or operating management systems at local level
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/20 End-user application control systems

Abstract

Implementations generally relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods for a residential electrical switch sensor device platform. In some implementations, a sensor device performs operations including detecting an activity in the living space, determining contextual routine information, determining user care protocol information, and determining an occurrence of an adverse health event. In response to the occurrence of the adverse health event, the sensor device performs operations including one or more of sending a notification to one or more destinations based on the adverse health event and activating one or more surveillance devices based on the adverse health event.

Claims

1. A residential electrical switch sensor device platform comprising:

a plurality of sensor devices, wherein each sensor device of the plurality of sensor devices communicates with a wireless router and with other sensor devices of the plurality of sensor devices, and wherein each sensor device includes one or more sensors operative to sense activity in a living space and includes a processor operative to perform operations comprising;

detecting an activity in the living space;

determining contextual routine information, wherein the contextual routine information comprises a pattern of a type of the activity, a location of the activity, a time of the activity;

determining user care protocol information, wherein the user care protocol information comprises an average time a person spends in the location of the activity;

determining an occurrence of an adverse health event based at least in part on a current amount of time that the person has spend in the location of the activity;

comparing the current amount of time that the person has spend in the location of the activity to a plurality of predetermined thresholds, wherein each predetermined threshold corresponds to a degree of adversity;

generating a flag based at least in part on the comparing of the current amount of time and plurality of predetermined thresholds, wherein the flag indicates the degree of adversity; and

in response to the occurrence of the adverse health event, the processor of each sensor device is operative to perform further operations comprising one or more of;

sending a notification to one or more destinations based on the adverse health event; and

activating one or more surveillance devices based on the adverse health event.

2. The residential sensor device platform of claim 1, wherein the activity comprises one or more motions of a person in the living space.

3. The residential sensor device platform of claim 1, wherein the contextual routine information is associated with the detected activity.

4. The residential sensor device platform of claim 1, wherein the processor is further operative to perform operations comprising determining a type of the detected activity based on one or more motions.

5. The residential sensor device platform of claim 1, wherein the processor is further operative to perform operations comprising exchanging activity information with other sensor devices of the plurality of sensor devices.

6. The residential sensor device platform of claim 1, wherein the user protocol information comprises routine information.

7. The residential sensor device platform of claim 1, the adverse health events may include a person breaking his or her routine.

8. An electrical switch sensor device comprising:

one or more sensors operative to sense an activity in a living space;

a processor operative to perform operations comprising;

detecting an activity in the living space;

determining contextual routine information, wherein the contextual routine information comprises a pattern of a type of the activity, a location of the activity, a time of the activity;

determining user care protocol information, wherein the user care protocol information comprises an average time a person spends in the location of the activity;

determining an occurrence of an adverse health event based at least in part on a current amount of time that the person has spend in the location of the activity;

comparing the current amount of time that the person has spend in the location of the activity to a plurality of predetermined thresholds, wherein each predetermined threshold corresponds to a degree of adversity;

generating a flag based at least in part on the comparing of the current amount of time and plurality of predetermined thresholds, wherein the flag indicates the degree of adversity; and

in response to the occurrence of the adverse health event, the processor is operative to perform further operations comprising one or more of;

sending a notification to one or more destinations based on the adverse health event; and

activating one or more surveillance devices based on the adverse health event.

9. The sensor device of claim 8, wherein the activity comprises one or more motions of a person in the living space.

10. The sensor device of claim 8, wherein the contextual routine information is associated with the detected activity.

11. The sensor device of claim 8, wherein the processor is further operative to perform operations comprising determining a type of the detected activity based on one or more motions.

12. The sensor device of claim 8, wherein the processor is further operative to perform operations comprising exchanging activity information with other sensor devices of a plurality of sensor devices.

13. The sensor device of claim 8, wherein the user protocol information comprises routine information.

14. The sensor device of claim 8, the adverse health events may include a person breaking his or her routine.

15. A computer-implemented method for operation of a residential electrical switch sensor device platform, the method comprising:

detecting an activity in a living space;

determining contextual routine information, wherein the contextual routine information comprises a pattern of a type of the activity, a location of the activity, a time of the activity;

determining user care protocol information, wherein the user care protocol information comprises an average time a person spends in the location of the activity;

determining an occurrence of an adverse health event based at least in part on a current amount of time that the person has spend in the location of the activity;

comparing the current amount of time that the person has spend in the location of the activity to a plurality of predetermined thresholds, wherein each predetermined threshold corresponds to a degree of adversity;

generating a flag based at least in part on the comparing of the current amount of time and plurality of predetermined thresholds, wherein the flag indicates the degree of adversity; and

in response to the occurrence of the adverse health event, the method further comprises one or more of;

sending a notification to one or more destinations based on the adverse health event; and

activating one or more surveillance devices based on the adverse health event.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the activity comprises one or more motions of a person in the living space.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the contextual routine information is associated with the detected activity.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising determining a type of the detected activity based on one or more motions.

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising exchanging activity information with other sensor devices of the plurality of sensor devices.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the user protocol information comprises routine information.