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COMMUNICATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL ALARM SYSTEM WITH VOICE INDICATION

  • US 20010043144A1
  • Filed: 10/12/1999
  • Published: 11/22/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/14/1998
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An environmental condition detection system having:

  • a minimum of two environmental condition detectors, each said environmental condition detector comprising (a) at least one sensor for detecting the presence of a selected environmental condition, (b) an audible alarm having at least one prescribed audible tonal pattern active in response to sensing said environmental condition in accordance with a predetermined criterion;

    (c) circuitry for playing at least one pre-recorded voice message wherein the message verbally describes the type of detected environmental condition for the duration of detection thereof in accordance with said criterion such that said pre-recorded voice message is emitted during periods of silence in said prescribed audible tonal pattern alarm; and

    (d) a transmitter and a receiver for wireless direct communication with other detectors of the system wherein each transmitter transmits user-selectable, coded wireless signals and each said receiver responds to received, coded signals, each said detector emitting at least one electronically pre-recorded voice message, the selection of which is defined by electronic decoding of the received wireless signal transmitted by a condition detector sensing said environmental condition.

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