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Marine personnel safety system

  • US 20090219160A1
  • Filed: 02/11/2009
  • Published: 09/03/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A person-overboard monitoring and alarm system, comprising:

  • an RFID tag adapted to be worn by a user;

    an array of directional antennas adapted to be mounted around a perimeter of a boat hull, below and substantially parallel with a gunnel of the boat so as to be arrayed substantially above a water line of the boat and so as to provide a corresponding array of substantially distinct and independent detection zones which are substantially only directed outwardly of the boat when mounted thereon, a transceiver cooperating with said array of antennas for detecting the presence of a tag in any one of said detection zones, a processor cooperating with said transceiver for receiving signals from said transceiver upon detection of said tag in said any one of said detection zones and determining which of said detection zones contain said tag, and wherein said processor is adapted to output an alarm trigger signal to an alarm upon said detection, whereby said antenna and said transceiver substantially only detects said tag when located over-board from the boat.

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