Building safety system and method

• US 20080071392A1
• Filed: 09/20/2006
• Published: 03/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Prepared Response, Inc. (Everi Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Prepared Response, Inc. (Everi Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Brown, Michael G., Brubaker, Thomas Lee, Atteberry, Tammy E.
• Application Number:
  US11/524,631
• Publication Number:
  US 20080071392A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/23
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric

Abstract

A building safety system and method are provided that permits occupants of a building to access building safety information. The system also permits the building owner/management company to monitor and administer building safety training.

Claims

1. A building safety management system, comprising:

a computer-implemented building safety management unit;

a secured communications link capable of being coupled to the computer-implemented building safety management unit that provides secure access to the computer-implemented building safety management unit;

one or more users, each using a computing device, to access the computer-implemented building safety management unit over the secured communications link, the one or more users further comprises one or more of a customer and an administrator; and

the computer-implemented building safety management unit further comprising a procedures unit having one or more lines of computer code that displays one or more building safety procedures to the one or more customers, a tenants unit having one or more lines of computer code that permits the one or more administrators to manage the tenants in each building managed using the building safety management system, a training unit having one or more lines of computer code that displays one or more training events to the one or more customers, a management unit having one or more lines of computer code that permits the one or more administrators to manage and modify one or more of the building safety procedures, the training events, the notifications and a set of building information, and a notification unit having one or more lines of computer code that generates a notification to one of the customer and the administrator of the system.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the set of building information further comprises a building floor identification that consistently identified each floor of the building.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the set of building information further comprises a floor warden assigned to one or more floors of the building based on the building safety procedures for the building.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the training unit further comprises a training event pages that permits the one or more customers to view one or more training events associated with a building and permits the administrator to add new training events.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more building safety procedures further comprises one of a bomb procedure, a fire procedure, a water damage procedure, an earthquake procedure, a hazmat/chemical procedure, an intruder procedure, a riot procedure, a heavy weather procedure and a user defined procedure.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the building safety procedures have one of a PowerPoint format, a PDF format, a word format and an image format.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the secured communications link further comprises a secured Internet and a firewall, connected to the secured Internet, inside of the computer-implemented building safety management unit.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer-implemented building safety management unit further comprises one or more server computers.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the computer-implemented building safety management unit further comprises a web system with one or more web servers.

10. The system of claim 1 further comprising a data storage unit connected to the computer-implemented building safety management unit that stores the data associated with the computer-implemented building safety management unit.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the data storage unit further comprises a primary database and a backup database.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the primary database and the backup database further comprises a plurality of relational tables.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the customer further comprises a building owner.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the customer further comprises a management company and wherein the management company manages a plurality of building using the computer-implemented building safety management unit.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer-implemented building safety management unit further comprises an access unit that monitors a number of unique visits to the computer-implemented building safety management unit by capturing the MAC address of each user when the user accesses the computer-implemented building safety management unit.

16. A building safety management method using a computer-implemented building safety management unit, a secured communications link capable of being coupled to the computer-implemented building safety management unit that provides secure access to the computer-implemented building safety management unit and one or more users, each using a computing device, to access the computer-implemented building safety management unit over the secured communications link, the one or more users further comprises one or more of a customer and an administrator, the method comprising:

displaying one or more building safety procedures to the one or more customers wherein the building safety procedures are stored in the computer-implemented building safety management unit;

managing one or more tenants in each building managed using the building safety management system;

displays one or more training events to the one or more customers wherein the training events are stored in the computer-implemented building safety management unit;

managing, by the administrators of the computer-implemented building safety management unit, one or more of the building safety procedures, the training events, the notifications and a set of building information; and

generates a notification to one of the customer and the administrator of the system.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the set of building information further comprises a building floor identification that consistently identified each floor of the building.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the set of building information further comprises a floor warden assigned to one or more floors of the building based on the building safety procedures for the building.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the one or more building safety procedures further comprises one of a bomb procedure, a fire procedure, a water damage procedure, an earthquake procedure, a hazmat/chemical procedure, an intruder procedure, a riot procedure, a heavy weather procedure and a user defined procedure.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the building safety procedures have one of a PowerPoint format, a PDF format, a word format and an image format.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein the customer further comprises a building owner.

22. The method of claim 16, wherein the customer further comprises a management company and wherein the management company manages a plurality of building using the computer-implemented building safety management unit.

23. The method of claim 16 further comprising monitoring a number of unique visits to the computer-implemented building safety management unit by capturing the MAC address of each user when the user accesses the computer-implemented building safety management unit.