Digital situation indicator
First Claim
1. A digital situation indicator, especially a personal monitoring and/or alarm system, characterized in that the situation indicator (SI) has three separate units:
- a sensor module (SM) for an operating person having a plurality of sensors (1, 4, 6, 9;
32) for monitoring conditions in connection with the operating person and a control unit (3) for analysing the data collected;
a heads-up display (HUD) module mounted in a facemask (F) or helmet of the operating person for displaying collected and analysed data;
an incident commander module (ICM) at a distance from the operating person for providing an incident commander with real-time sensors data on all operating persons in the operating area; and
communication means (8, 12, 27) in said modules (SM, HUD, ICM) for sending and receiving data between the sensor module (SM) and the heads-up display (HUD) module of the operating person and further between the sensor module and the incident commander module (ICM).
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a digital situation indicator, especially a personal monitoring and alarm system. The digital situation indicator according to the invention consist of three parts: sensor module (SM) for monitoring desired data, heads-up display module (HUD) mounted in a facemask (F) or helmet of the operating person, and incident commander module (ICM) at a distance from the operating person. The digital situation indicator can be used to monitor for example firefighter'"'"'s heat stress, amperage in a welding machine or warfighter'"'"'s dosage of chemical warfare agents.
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23 Claims
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1. A digital situation indicator, especially a personal monitoring and/or alarm system, characterized in that the situation indicator (SI) has three separate units:
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a sensor module (SM) for an operating person having a plurality of sensors (1, 4, 6, 9;
32) for monitoring conditions in connection with the operating person and a control unit (3) for analysing the data collected;
a heads-up display (HUD) module mounted in a facemask (F) or helmet of the operating person for displaying collected and analysed data;
an incident commander module (ICM) at a distance from the operating person for providing an incident commander with real-time sensors data on all operating persons in the operating area; and
communication means (8, 12, 27) in said modules (SM, HUD, ICM) for sending and receiving data between the sensor module (SM) and the heads-up display (HUD) module of the operating person and further between the sensor module and the incident commander module (ICM).
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2. A digital situation indicator, especially a personal monitoring and alarm system for firefighters, characterized in that the situation indicator has three separate units:
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a sensor module (SM) including plurality of sensors (1, 4) for monitoring conditions in connection with a firefighter such as an ambient temperature sensor, and a sensor for the pressure of the air tank; and
control unit such as a microcomputer (3) for analysing the data collected;
which sensor module (SM) has further;
flashover warning alarm for analysing sensor data and detecting, when ambient conditions are appropriate for impending flashover;
means for computing cumulative heat stress level and heat stress warning alarm;
personal alert safety system (PASS) having motion sensor (6) and alarm (5;
7);
SOS button (20); and
radio frequency transceiver (8, 12) for transmitting sensor data, computed data and alarms to a heads-up display (HUD) module and/or an incident commander module (ICM) and receiving messages from the incident commander module (ICM);
a heads-up display (HUD) module, which is positioned in a facemask or a helmet of the firefighter for displaying collected and analysed data, and an incident commander module (ICM) at a distance from the firefighter for providing an incident commander with real-time sensors data on all firefighters in the area, which incident commander module (ICM) has;
control unit such as a microprocessor (26);
radio frequency transceiver (27) for receiving sensor data transmissions and SOS transmissions from a plurality of firefighters, especially from their sensor modules (SM), and for transmitting messages to any selected firefighter or to all firefighters; and
display (28) for indicating information from the firefighters;
- View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
any firefighter'"'"'s SOS transmission on real-time, as it occurs;
all service and maintenance records on each device; and
automatically to add time/date stamp to all records.
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14. A digital situation indicator, especially a personal monitoring and alarm system for firefighters, according to any of preceding claims 2-13, characterized in that the incident commander module (ICM) has a field programming capacity, which enables to dawn load identification codes and other information from the incident commander module (ICM) to the sensor module (SM) and the heads-up display (HUD) module of the firefighter.
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15. A digital situation indicator, especially a personal monitoring and alarm system for war fighters, characterized in that the situation indicator has three separate units:
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a sensor module (SM) including a plurality of sensors (1, 4) for monitoring conditions in connection with a war fighter, and a control unit such as a microcomputer (3) for analysing the data collected;
which sensor module has further;
chemical warfare agent sensor (32) for sensing the amount of the agent in the surroundings;
means for tracking war fighter'"'"'s chemical warfare agent dosage;
means for computing remaining operating time with current chemical warfare agent concentration;
SOS button (20); and
radio frequency transceiver (8, 12) for transmitting sensor data, computed data and alarms to the heads-up display (HUD) module and/or an incident commander module (ICM) and receiving messages from the incident commander module (ICM). a heads-up display (HUD) module, which is positioned in a facemask or a helmet of the war fighter for displaying collected and analysed data, and an incident commander module (ICM) at a distance from the war fighter for providing an a commanding officer with real-time sensors data on all war fighters in the area, which incident commander module (ICM) has;
control unit such as a microprocessor (26);
radio frequency transceiver (27) for receiving sensor data transmissions and SOS transmissions from a plurality of war fighters, especially from their sensor modules (SM), and for transmitting messages to any selected war fighter or to all war fighters; and
display (28) for indicating information from the war fighters. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
any war fighter'"'"'s SOS transmission in real-time, as it occurs;
all service and maintenance records on each sensor module; and
automatically to add time/date stamp to all records.
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21. A digital situation indicator for welders, characterized in that the indicator has a sensor module (SM) and a heads-up display (HUD) module, where the sensor module (SM) is attached to a welding machine including
an amperage sensor (31) for monitoring amperage of the welding machine, control unit such as a microcomputer (3) for analysing the data collected; - and
radio frequency transceiver (8, 12 FIG.
2) for transmitting updated sensor data to the heads-up display (HUD) module; and
the heads-up display (HUD) module is positioned in a facemask or a helmet of the welder for displaying in its display (21) collected and analysed data. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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