EMERGENCY CONTROL IN A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPACE

• US 20090131012A1
• Filed: 01/08/2009
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WirelessWERX IP LLC (Pueblo Nuevo LLC)
• Original Assignee: Wirelesswerx International, Inc.
• Inventors: Mooney, Patrick, Ashley, James JR.
• Granted Patent: US 8,200,186 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.200
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/876 Combination of several spaced transponders or reflectors of known location for determining the position of a receiver G01S13/874 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0018 Transmission from mobile station to base station
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0054 of actual mobile position, i.e. position calculation on base station
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/003 Address allocation methods and details
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/009 Signalling of the alarm condition to a substation whose identity is signalled to a central station, e.g. relaying alarm signals in order to extend communication range
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/006 with transmission via telephone network
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/207 with respect to certain areas, e.g. forbidden or allowed areas with possible alerting when inside or outside boundaries
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas

Abstract

A geographical zone, which can be multi-dimensional, such as in three dimensions, can be utilized to regulate the location of a movable user within the geographical zone. A mobile device associated with a user located in a specific area of a geographical zone is in communication at least one node, which is, in turn, in communication with at least one control center. Detailed local information from the location nodes is downloaded. The nodes communicate with each other wirelessly via radio frequency (RF) using Bluetooth™ protocol. Mobile devices interact with location nodes that are in communication range. A messaging system is used to send emergency and security communications to users associated with mobile devices in particular locations.

Claims

1. A system for permitting a user to control and monitor individuals, vehicles, and other moving entities in a monitored environment, comprising:

using a geographical zone, wherein the zone includes a plurality of nodes;

sending messages between one or more of the users and one or more control stations;

targeting message communications to at least one user;

arranging the nodes in a multi-dimensional sense; and

affecting a security support system utilizing user location data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitored environment is an emergency environment.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitored environment is a security environment.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitored environment is an emergency and a security environment.

5. The system of claim 1, including having a geographic three-dimensional zone, the zone selectively being in a three-dimensional sense in the x, y, and z axes or coordinates.

6. The system of claim 1, including employing at least one Bluetooth™

equipped mobile personal device associated with at least one user, wherein the at least one Bluetooth™

equipped mobile device communicates with Bluetooth™

location nodes in a mesh network.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the at least one Bluetooth™

equipped personal device uses at least one downloaded algorithm to determine the relatively specific three-dimensional location of the at least one user within the mesh network.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein when an emergency or security event occurs, a control center and/or intermediate supplementary stations transmit emergency or security notifications to users located within a specific group of nodes in the mesh network.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the emergency or security notifications are transmitted to the users'"'"' personal devices selectively via at least one of the other nodes within a mesh network or through relay stations.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein when an emergency or security event occurs, at least one user associated with at least one mobile device enters an emergency or security notification into the at least one mobile device, the at least one mobile device transmits the emergency or security notification to a control center and/or intermediate supplementary stations, and the control center and/or the intermediate supplementary stations transmit emergency or security notifications to users located within a specific group of nodes in the mesh network.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the emergency or security notification that the at least one user enters into the at least one mobile device is a textual message.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the emergency or security notification that the at least one user enters into the at least one mobile device is a verbal message.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the emergency or security notification that the at least one user enters into the at least one mobile device is a emergency or security designated phone number or code.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the nodes are selectively part of a mesh network or other suitable network configuration.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the nodes selectively communicate with a selected subscriber device, the device being selectively being a cell phone, PDA, or computer device.

16. The system of claim 1, including defining a geographical zone, the zone being multi-dimensional, and regulating a movable entity that has a transponder or subscriber device, the device being selectively a cell phone, PDA, pager, computer, or device which is configured to be in wireless communication with other devices through a suitable network.

17. The system of claim 1, including loading from a computing device to a memory in a transponder or subscriber device a plurality of coordinates;

and mapping the coordinates on a pixilated image wherein the assigned pixilated image is configurable; and

forming a contiguous array of pixels that enclose a shape in the pixilated image to form a geographic space.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring of the entity comprises at least one of monitoring, controlling, and visualizing the movement of the movable entity.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the plurality of coordinates are entered by a user of a computer device, and transmitted to the transponder or subscriber device.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the user enters the plurality of coordinates by selecting points in a map;

and calculating geographical coordinates of each selected point in the map.

21. The system of claim 17, wherein a remote user enters the plurality of coordinates by entering on a computer the longitude, latitude, and elevation.

22. The system of claim 1, wherein a multi-dimensional shape of the geographical zone is the shape of a non-regular geometrical zone.

23. The system of claim 1, including loading from a computing device to memory in a transponder or subscriber device a plurality of coordinates, wherein the plurality of coordinates identify a multi-dimensional area;

dividing the multi-dimensional area into a grid, allowing at least one user to select at least one section from within the grid in order to define a multi-dimensional geographical region; and

associating the at least one section with at least one pixel in a pixilated computer image of the multi-dimensional area such that the pixels selected by the at least one user are identified as being loaded in the multi-dimensional geographical region.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the multi-dimensional area is divided into a grid of three-dimensional squares or rectangles, and wherein the three-dimensional squares or rectangles of the grid have at least one depth.

25. A system in an emergency or security environment for permitting control and monitoring of individuals, vehicles, and other movable entities, these movable entities having communication devices associated with them, comprising:

using a map of a multi-dimensional space formed by using a geographical space,

the space including a plurality of spaced apart nodes, and the nodes being arranged in a multi-dimensional sense and being in a mesh or other network; and

sending data communications between one or more of the nodes and data communications by a wireless protocol between selected one or more movable entities in a selected geographical space.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein the map is in a three-dimensional sense, selectively being in the x, y, and z axes or coordinates.

27. The system of claim 25, wherein the nodes and the communication devices are enabled selectively to communicate with GPS and with Bluetooth™

protocols.

28. The system of claim 25, wherein the nodes are enabled with a Bluetooth™

protocol to effect communications between nodes and the mobile devices being at least Bluetooth™

protocol enabled.

29. The system of claim 25, wherein the nodes selectively communicate with users having a selected subscriber device, the device being selectively a cell phone, PDA, or computer device.

30. The system of claim 25, wherein a multi-dimensional shape of a geographical space is the shape of a non-regular geometrical shape.

31. A system in an emergency or security environment for permitting control and monitoring of individuals, vehicles, and other movable entities, these movable entities having communication devices associated with them, comprising:

communicating data between communication nodes and a selected mobile communication device;

arranging an array of communication nodes about a multi-dimensional geographical space;

enabling one or more different mobile communication devices to be in communication with different communication nodes when the devices are within range of one or more selected nodes;

associating the mobile device with the respective nodes such that the mobile device is locatable in the multi-dimensional space; and

affecting a security support system utilizing user location data of movable entities and the existence of emergency and security conditions.

32. The system of claim 31, wherein the nodes are arranged in a multi-dimensional sense, the multi-directional sense selectively being a three-dimensional sense in the x, y, and z axes or coordinates.

33. A system in an emergency or security environment for permitting control and monitoring of individuals, vehicles, and other movable entities, these movable entities having communication devices associated with them, comprising:

using a geographical zone, the zone selectively being a pre-configured geographical zone, and the zone including a plurality of nodes;

sending messages between one or more of the users and one or more control stations,

the message communications being targeted to at least one or multiple users,

the nodes being arranged in a multi-dimensional sense, the multi-dimensional sense selectively being a three-dimensional sense in the x, y, and z axes or coordinates; and

affecting a security support system utilizing user location data of movable entities and the existence of emergency and security conditions.

34. The system of claim 33, including employing at least one Bluetooth™

equipped mobile personal device associated with at least one user, the at least one device communicating with Bluetooth™

enabled location nodes in a mesh network.

35. The system of claim 34, wherein the at least one Bluetooth™

equipped mobile personal device contains at least one specific algorithm to determine the relatively precise location of the at least one user within the mesh network.

36. The system of claim 34, wherein when the at least one Bluetooth™

equipped mobile personal device is within the range of certain location nodes, specified events are triggered.

37. The system of claim 33, wherein the monitoring of the entity comprises at least one of monitoring, controlling, and visualizing movement of the entity.

38. The system of claim 33, wherein geographical coordinates for the geographical zone are formed by entering on a computer the longitude, latitude, and elevation.

39. The system of claim 33, wherein the messages are a security or emergency message.